The Court Service’s new Online Forms pilot service enables you to complete 20 civil court forms online and submit them electroically, with a fee if necessary, to one of 9 pilot courts which include Basildon County Court, Birmingham County Court, Bournemouth County Court, Coventry County Court, Dartford County Court, Leicester County Court, Llangefni County Court, […]
First published January 2005 in the Internet Newsletter for Lawyers. The application that enables web pages to be viewed and used to process and send information is the web browser. Not only does the browser colour our perception of the web, but as more and more applications are written for use with browsers, it has […]
Sir David Clementi’s Report of the Review of the Regulatory Framework for Legal Services in England and Wales was published on 15 December. Key proposals are: A Legal Services Board – this will oversee the way the legal profession regulates lawyers The Office for Legal Complaints – a new gateway for consumer complaints about all […]
The Cabinet Office Autumn Performance Report states that 96% of government services will be available electronically by the end of 2005, with 75% of these services currently available. Many services are experiencing high annual growth rates: 67% of incorporations are now electronic, up 19% from the previous year. Over 1.1 million Self Assessment tax returns […]
Three sites that help you the citizen make sense of what your elected representatives are doing and hold them to account (in their own words): TheyWorkForYou.comEverything MPs say in the House of Commons is recorded in a document called Hansard. TheyWorkForYou.com helps make sense of this vital democratic resource while allowing you to add comments […]
The start of the new Parliamentary session is a reminder just how awkward it is to monitor the progress of bills on the Parliament site. The Bills before parliament page summarises the position thus: Public Bills before ParliamentThe page lists the titles of Public Bills currently before Parliament as well as Amendments to the Bill […]
First published December 2004 in Computers and Law Lord Justice Brooke chaired the legendary “Free the Law” meeting at Chatham House in London which gave birth to the body we now know as BAILII. 1 November 2004 saw him again in the chair, this time to host a celebration of its first five years. He […]
The Advice Services Alliance is the umbrella body for independent advice services in the UK. Members are national networks of not-for-profit organisations providing advice and help on the law, access to services and related issues, including adviceuk, Age Concern England, Citizens Advice, Citizens Advice Northern Ireland, DIAL UK, Law Centres Federation, Scottish Association of Law […]
At a meeting on 1 November to celebrate 5 years of free law via BAILII, Richard Susskind outlined current developments regarding re-use of Public Sector Information (PSI). He chairs the Advisory Panel on PSI whose job is to advise the Government so that this asset is protected and exploited and its value is maximised. Central […]
Three weblogs focussing on legal information management have been added to our blog links (bottom right) and are well worth bookmarking. Better still add their RSS feeds to your feedreader. [What’s RSS?] Excited Utterances by Joy London, trainer at Allen & Overy, USA – on law firm knowledge management Feedmelegal by a lawyer in private […]
On 20 October LexisNexis UK sold a portfolio of approximately 600 titles to Tottel Publishing, a company set up by Jim Smith, a former UK publishing director of LexisNexis Butterworths. The sale includes bound books and some 70 looseleaf works, journals and newsletters, as well as the entire Irish list and many of the titles […]
BIALL has set up a Legal Online Resource Database – a register of all the online services provided by the mainstream commercial publishers. You can view the register by selecting title, host, subject, material type, or jurisdiction, or view a listing of what’s new. Records give a brief summary of coverage and link through to […]
Ever thought “Google is great, but why can’t I search my computer the same way?” Well now you can do just that. The new Google Desktop Search launched in beta 14 October. It seamlessly blends into Google itself. Download the tool and you’ll see a new Desktop search button on the Google home page. Google […]
In the Autumn of 1994 Jeffrey Green Russell was the first UK solicitors practice to establish its own website. Thus began the UK legal web. By early 1995 it comprised a handful of intrepid law firms and barristers, the Law Schools at Bristol and Strathclyde and infolaw and Delia Venables – the first portal sites. […]
The new Sentencing Guidelines site contains information about the Sentencing Guidelines Council and the Sentencing Advisory Panel and includes the Council’s first draft guidelines covering Seriousness & New Sentences and Reductions in Sentence for a Guilty Plea. These guidelines are designed to assist criminal courts in developing a common approach to sentencing of offenders. They […]
