Progress is a new industry update on Home Information Packs (HIPs) produced by the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, for organisations and individuals across the property industry who are involved in the implementation of the Home Information Pack Programme. The ODPM’s HIP pages provide an overview of the HIP, information on Home Inspectors and […]
An interesting piece in the New York Times reports: “A survey conducted by Blogads.com, which administers online advertising on blog sites, and completed voluntarily by 30,000 blog visitors last spring, found that 5.1 percent of the people reading the blogs were lawyers or judges, putting that group fourth behind computer professionals, students and retirees. The […]
The Charity Commission site has a new, improved design. It has also just launched its Online Services which enable charities with annual incomes of £250,000 or more to: complete and send Annual Returns view and make changes to contact details make changes to the way the charity is categorised send general correspondence about the charity […]
At last. OUT-LAW News which tracks the latest legal stories in IT and e-commerce now offers RSS feeds. You can subscribe to All OUT-LAW News (the 20 most recent stories of the last 7 days) or to any of the following topics: Accessibility, Copyright, Data protection, E-commerce, Employment, Financial services, Freedom of Information, Games, Outsourcing, […]
Another plug for Whither the Legal Web?, the new e-book compiled and edited by me and Delia Venables, Part 2 of which is published today. Part 1, available since May, covers Legal Information. Part 2, now available, covers how the web is transforming Legal Practice, with articles on the transformation of communication, managing email, electronic […]
ICLR is in the process of morphing its Daily Law Notes service into WLR Daily. “Welcome to the new look case summary service from ICLR that replaces the Daily Law Notes. The service remains the same; providing free 24 hour access to summaries but in a new easier to use format.” What this, in fact, […]
Geeklawyer is the first UK barrister to blog – on media etc. Good stuff! NIPCLAW is the blog of John Lambert, barrister of Northern Intellectual Property Chambers, the first and so far only specialist intellectual property and technology chambers outside London. It offers news and comment on English, European and overseas intellectual property, technology, media […]
Researching e-government services, I’ve just come across DirectionlessGov, a cheeky little utility that compares results from a search on DirectGov with results from a Google search for the same term on .gov.uk sites. According to the authors, “Our tests show that DirectionlessGov is much more effective at most common searches than DirectGov.” What they mean […]
The Insolvency Service has just launched a new Online Forms Service (using the domain insolvencydirect.gov.uk) which enables you to complete a bankruptcy application online. The service currently caters for the statement of affairs in a debtor’s petition and the preliminary information questionnaire which the official receiver may require once a bankruptcy order has been made.
A second edition of the Criminal Case Management Framework has recently been issued by the CJS. The Framework is a guide for operational practitioners on managing cases in the most effective and efficient way from pre-charge through to conclusion, describing case management procedures and the roles and responsibilities for operating them of administrative staff and […]
The Legal IT Forum bills itself as “The most important Legal IT event of the year strictly for IT Directors and Senior Professionals worldwide” – so most of us need not apply! This is not a plug for the event itself, but for the useful collection of articles on legal IT topics posted on its […]
Finally another law blog from practising UK lawyers. Naked Law is written by members of Mills & Reeve’s Technology Team, based in Cambridge, about the latest UK legal/regulatory developments affecting the IT and other hi-tech industries, including procurement and outsourcing, exploitation and protection of intellectual property, privacy and data protection, e-commerce and distance selling, and […]
The ABA Law Practice Management Section leads its July/August issue with five feature articles on law blogging: It’s Not Your Father’s Web Site: Lawyers in the Blogosphere (how blogs differ from traditional websites) Ethics and Lawyer Blogs How to Start Your Own Weblog And Make the Most of It The Future of Legal Blogging (a […]
Eversheds employment team has developed an online service designed for human resource professionals in large organisations that automates the process of drafting employment documents. See this walk-through demo of HR Contract Builder. The service uses the DealBuilder document automation system from Business Integrity. Joy London cites these other DealBuilder legal applications: Linklaters (BlueFlag), Microsoft (software […]
