Month: July 2018

Open law: digital common property

Open law is the idea that public legal information should be freely available to everyone to access, use and republish. The current position in the UK differs completely as between legislation and case law. In the July issue of the Internet Newsletter for Lawyers I consider the state of open law in the UK. As […]

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Legal ebooks: who needs them?

In the July issue of the Internet Newsletter for Lawyers I look at the current state of the law publishers’ ebook offerings. Image: Ebook cc by by Daniel Sancho on Flickr.

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The role of technology in legal advice and assistance

In June’s Legal Web Watch I review two reports on the application of technology in delivering legal advice and assistance. Image: Detail from the cover of the the Current State of Automated Legal Advice Tools (ALATs) in Australia. The report is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike licence.

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