On 5 May JISC (the Joint Information Systems Committee) and BAILII unveiled the Open Law project which has the potential to transform the delivery of legal teaching and public access to legal materials in the UK. Open Law will focus on the core needs of staff and students on law courses at all levels, including […]
I’ve been hard at work with Delia Venables these past few months putting together a new online publication called Whither the Legal Web?, designed to bring you up to date on legal web developments, point you to where it’s going and earn you CPD points. The fruits of our labours are now published. Please support […]
I can’t help but think that Caselex, a project supported by the European Commission and scheduled for 2006, is crying out for translators and editors: “Caselex will serve as a European case law backbone accessing and converting the comprehensive base of case law into easy obtainable and usable knowledge for open distribution through intermediaries and […]
Google Local and Google Maps have been around in beta for a while, but only for US businesses and maps. No longer. Google has just rolled out Google Local and Google Maps for the UK. With Google Local you can search for businesses in or near a specific town or postcode. It starts by recognising […]
HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) is the new department responsible for the business of the former Inland Revenue and HM Customs and Excise – with a new website, of course. “As a single department, HMRC will have the added benefit of producing greater efficiencies, reducing the tax gap and providing a greater customer focus. HMRC […]
All organisations need to consider the fact that many of their employees will blog and some of them will refer to their workplace in their blogs. If an appropriate company policy is not in place on this issue, the boundaries of what is and what is not acceptable practice will not be clear and disputes […]
The Asylum and Immigration Tribunal is the successor to the Immigration Appellate Authority and the Immigration Appeals Tribunal, set up under the Asylum and Immigration (Treatment of Claimants etc) Act 2004 and came into being 4 April 2005. The purpose of the Tribunal is to hear and decide appeals against decisions made by the Home […]
Her Majesty’s Courts Service brings together on 1 April 2005 the Magistrates’ Courts Service and Court Service into one single organisation for the first time. The new website is launched today. Fix your links.
CjScotland is a blog about criminal justice issues in Scotland. Posts mainly comprise lists of links to criminal justice news stories. Not dissimilar from UK Criminal Justice Weblog.
The Office of the Deputy Prime Minister (ODPM) has developed a national strategy in order to communicate a common vision for local e-government. The ODPM Local e-government site provides the tools with which local authorities can develop and build their own e-strategy. Detailed, web-based resource packs set out proposals, plans and information at a variety […]
An online information and training service for family lawyers, Family Law Week, was launched this week. It provides free access for registered users to latest news, case summaries and transcripts, details of legislative changes and commentary and guidance. Only the accompanying CPD training carries a price tag. The site is subject to the general editorship […]
The choice for detailed coverage of political debate and legislative progress is now between … ePolitix – which aims to improve communication between elected representatives and the public. News – provides up-to-the-minute politics and parliamentary news covering events at Westminster, the Scottish Parliament, European Parliament and the assemblies in Northern Ireland, Wales and London via […]
A blog is a species of interactive electronic diary by means of which the unpublishable, untrammeled by editors or the rules of grammar, can communicate their thoughts via the web.
The success of the McLibel two on 15 February in challenging the fairness of their trial on the grounds that the denial of legal aid was in breach of their human rights has already been widely reported in the national and legal press. However, first off the blocks in my book was the Scotsman, the […]
Well … not quite, but I was interested to discover that Time Berners-Lee, inventor of the web, grew up in Sheen, London SW14, home of infolaw, and went to Sheen Mount primary school not 100 yards from my front door where my children followed some years later. He then went on to secondary school at […]
