The ODPM has published Draft Home Information Pack Regulations concerned with the meaning of HIP, the contents of HIPs, forms for providing HIP information, assembly and authenticity of HIPs, exceptions to the duty to have a HIP and enforcement of HIP duties. The general content and cost of the pack remain the same as discussed […]
Justin Patten entitles his new blog Human Law with the tagline “Law, Technology and People”, saying in his opening post: “It is my view that a crucial feature of being a successful lawyer is a knowledge of technology just as much as an understanding of the law.” The blog covers IP, IT and Employment law […]
Kablenet reports that the UK has fallen behind the rest of Europe in usage of e-government services. According to the latest official EU figures: only 31% of individual internet users have accessed information from public authorities – fifth from bottom only 11% of individual internet users have downloaded forms from public authorities – bottom only […]
The DCA has published a white paper The Future of Legal Services: Putting the Consumer First, setting out proposals for the regulatory reform of legal services in England and Wales: The Legal Services Board will provide consistent and independent oversight of “front-line” professional bodies such as the Law Society and Bar Council and promote public […]
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 […]
