Another law wiki has just been started by one Jonathan (who he?). Wiki Mental Health is an internet resource on mental health law in England & Wales, primarily for mental health practitioners, to which anyone can contribute. There are currently three embryonic sections: commentaries on cases, with links to the full text judgments on BAILII; […]
Great editorial on the risks of corporate blogging by Struan Robertson, Editor of OUT-LAW.com – the best new media law service around. After a quick sentence about the benefits of corporate blogging he points out its risks: the risk of defamation unhappy bloggers generating negative PR copyright and trade mark infringement (particularly easy) a joke […]
BlogScript is a UK-based cyberlaw blog by Lilian Edwards on innovation, technology and the law, specialising in online privacy and security law, cybercrime, online intermediary law (including eBay and Google law), e-commerce, digital property and whatever captures her eye – “with the odd tartan moment”.
Ian Best, a third-year law student at Ohio State University, has just completed a Taxonomy of American and Canadian Legal Blogs, entitled 3L Epiphany, as part of a”blog-for-credit” Independent Study project. I created 3L Epiphany primarily to study the growing phenomenon of legal blogs, the weblogs of lawyers, law professors, and law students. I have […]
Two comments in a recent Times article on law firm blogging support my view that the blogosphere occupies the position that the web itself did 10 years ago. Hands up those who, in 1996, did not appreciate the significance of the web as a marketing tool? If your firm doesn’t have at least one lawyer […]
The Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA) is a new law enforcement agency created to reduce the harm caused to people and communities in the UK by serious organised crime. It takes over the functions of the National Crime Squad (NCS), the National Criminal Intelligence Service (NCIS), the role of HMRC in investigating drug trafficking and […]
The Tribunals Service, launched 1 April 2006, is a new executive agency of the DCA, providing common administrative support to the main central government tribunals. It marks the biggest change to the tribunals system in almost half a century. The following are now part of the Tribunals Service (some having transferred sponsoring departments), with new […]
WikiCrimeLine is a new project, set up as part of the CrimeLine family of free updating materials. Publisher and WikiCrimeLine Administrator Andrew Keogh says: I wish to take CrimeLine one step further and gather up the extensive knowledge base that exists with our almost 8,000 members. This is your unique opportunity to share your knowledge […]
OPSI has added a Discussion Forums area to its website. The first to be set up is “Website Help” which is for discussion of problems, issues and tips on using the OPSI website. They may regret this! Half of the posts so far are from members of the public seeking advice about specific statutory provisions: […]
An innovative and unique new online document management service, General Counsel Direct, has just been launched. GCD allows businesses to upload all crucial documentation so that officers, advisors and business partners and relevant employees can retrieve it with a web browser. By establishing user privileges, specific workgroups can collaborate through the internet on clients or […]
Since January Jolyon Patten of Halliwells has been blogging on insurance and reinsurance matters at Re Risk. This is a continuation of his former blog for Elborne Michell, iNews: Lex in the City. Elbornes appears to have expunged the blog from their site. Not so the Wayback Machine which retains archives to March 2005. Diary […]
Question. I have been seeking for a long time now the details of the case where a reasonable man is defined as “the man on the Clapham Omnibus”. Answer. First use of the phrase is attributed to Lord Justice Greer, in Hall v. Brooklands Auto Racing Club (1933) 1 KB 205, at p 224. The […]
In his SCL 2006 Lecture Richard Susskind predicted that the pace of development in the coming decade will be more profound than during the last. Emerging technologies would enable transformations in the nature of legal service, the way lawyers work, relationships between lawyers and their clients, legal training and learning and dispute resolution. He sees […]
Tony Hopkins, Head of the Statutory Publications Office at the DCA, reports that the SPO has successfully completed the pilot for the Statute Law Database government service enquiry system. The final evaluation is being concluded now and it will go live in April. The pilot for the public version will start in May. Judging from […]
Family Lore from John Bolch – “Random thoughts related to my job as a family law solicitor practising in England and Wales.” The Landlord Law Blog from Tessa Shepperson – “Thoughts on residential landlord and tenant/housing law and practice. Thoughts on law. Or just thoughts.”
