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.”
The Murray Stable is one of only two of the 11 stables of advocates (forming Faculty Services Limited, the service company of the Scottish bar) to have its own website. Formed in 1991, with 11 QCs and 40 junior counsel, it is the largest and the most innovative of the stables and Iain Murray is […]
Rupert White writes a thoughtful piece on law blogging in the Law Gazette article Logging on to blogging. Having interviewed several leading UK law bloggers, he finds a “deeply personal approach” to what blogging can achieve as a business and marketing tool. Seeing blogs as [a route to market] is … to misread their value […]
First published January 2006 in the Internet Newsletter for Lawyers. What is search engine optimisation? Search is big business – the driver of e-commerce. In the early days of the web most users used portal sites and directories to navigate their way to what interested them. Today the web is so vast and users’ needs […]
John Battelle, former editor of Wired magazine, is the leading commentator on search. In November he published his good read The Search: How Google and Its Rivals Rewrote the Rules of Business and Transformed Our Culture. In the concluding chapter on the future of search he says: As every engineer in the search field loves […]
Here’s the list. Web search: Google Google Image Search Google News Google University Search Google Blog Search beta Goods and services: Froogle beta Google Base beta Maps and directions; local businesses: Google Local / Google Maps beta (map data from Tele Atlas; business listings from Yell.com) Book content: Google Book Search beta (previously Google print) […]
A valuable post on Offshoring from Joy London’s Excited Utterances blog, pointing to the trend in legal process outsourcing (LPO), particularly to India, and providing links to the main players: With the increasing acceptance of India as a preferred offshoring destination, a large number of non-CRM and non-transaction related services are being offshored. Among these, […]
Tim Berners-Lee, father of the web, has published his first blog post as a member of the Decentralized Information Group (DIG) blog. DIG explores technical, institutional, and public policy questions necessary to advance the development of global, decentralized information environments. He points to his Design Issues writings as the home of his previous “blog”. It […]
From today there is free browse access to all Lawfinder, the Lawfinder RSS feeds and the related Lawlinker utility. As the web matures, both user expectations of value and our ability economically to deliver that value increase. There are thousands of occasional users of Lawfinder – both lawyers and lay persons – who will benefit […]
Russell Shepherd of Capform has asked me to correct an error in the previous post, repeated from the Media Guardian article, saying that: We have no intention of introducing charges for our current free forms service on Capform. Capform will introduce new chargeable services next year – but this will not affect the provision of […]
Google has taken the next step in its quest to “organise the world’s information” with the release of Google Base in beta. “Google Base is a place where you can easily submit all types of online and offline content that we’ll host and make searchable online. You can describe any item you post with attributes, […]
Serial entrepreneur Russell Shepherd has launched Capform, which provides a free library of over 1,000 government forms in HotDocs format for download from the web. The business is essentially the same as Everyform, which he originally set up in 1999 and sold to what is now LexisNexis Butterworths in 2001 for an undisclosed 7-figure sum. […]
