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Around and about the legal web September 2020

Posted on October 23, 2020
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Around and about the legal web July 2020

Posted on August 04, 2020
Digital Technology and the Resurrection of Trust The House of Lords Select Committee on Democracy and Digital Technologies has produced an important Report which focuses on a crisis ?with roots that extend far deeper, and are likely to last far (…)Read the rest of this entry »

Around and about the legal web January 2020

Posted on February 10, 2020
See You Out Of Court See You Out of Court at buzzsprout.com/815344 is a new podcast focusing on new ways to resolve disputes without burning vast amounts of money through the courts. The podcast will inform you of all the (…)Read the rest of this entry »

Online Courts and the Future of Justice

Posted on January 27, 2020
In the last issue of Internet Newsletter for Lawyers, I reviewed Richard Susskind’s Online Courts and the Future of Justice: Four years on and Professor Richard Susskind has written the same book he wrote last time, so he says. He (…)Read the rest of this entry »

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The Online Court and the digitisation of justice

Posted on June 19, 2019
In its Report to the Civil Justice Council in February 2015, Online Dispute Resolution for Low Value Civil Claims, the ODR Advisory Group, chaired by Prof Richard Susskind recommended the establishment by HMCTS of an online court for low value (…)Read the rest of this entry »

The Web at 30

Posted on April 12, 2019
12 March 2019 marked the 30th anniversary of Tim Berners-Lee?s proposal envisioning a unifying structure for linking information across different computers using hypertext, which by 1991 had been developed and became known as the World Wide Web. The day was (…)Read the rest of this entry »

The open web

Posted on January 31, 2019
My article in the Internet Newsletter for Lawyers January 2018 issue: The inventor of the web, Tim Berners-Lee, and others advocated that the underlying code for the web should be made open ? publicly available on a royalty-free basis, forever. (…)Read the rest of this entry »

Why blog?

Posted on November 30, 2018
I wrote this for the Internet Newsletter for Lawyers November 2018 issue: Blogging is a simple, cheap, efficient, effective way to publish and update time-sensitive information, particularly in constantly-changing fields such as the law. Blogging puts in your hands publishing (…)Read the rest of this entry »

Transforming access to justice

Posted on November 19, 2018
In November?s Legal Web Watch I look at three recent developments with access to justice tech: HM Courts and Tribunals Service?s progress made over the last year with the court reform program, reviewed by Roger Smith who on his Law, (…)Read the rest of this entry »

Open data: free to use and republish

Posted on September 26, 2018
Open data is the idea that some data should be freely available to everyone to use and republish as they wish, without restrictions from copyright, patents or similar. The philosophy behind it is long established, but the term ?open data? (…)Read the rest of this entry »

Open law: digital common property

Posted on July 25, 2018
Open law is the idea that public legal information should be freely available to everyone to access, use and republish. The current position in the UK differs completely as between legislation and case law. In the July issue of the (…)Read the rest of this entry »

Legal ebooks: who needs them?

Posted on July 25, 2018
In the July issue of the Internet Newsletter for Lawyers I look at the current state of the law publishers? ebook offerings. Image: Ebook cc by by Daniel Sancho on Flickr.

The role of technology in legal advice and assistance

Posted on July 01, 2018
In June?s Legal Web Watch I review two reports on the application of technology in delivering legal advice and assistance. Image: Detail from the cover of the the Current State of Automated Legal Advice Tools (ALATs) in Australia. The report (…)Read the rest of this entry »

Algorithms in law

Posted on June 01, 2018
In the May issue of Internet Newsletter for Lawyers I review recent analyses of the developing law relating to the application of algorithms. Image: 1044 cc by x6e38 on Flickr.

Do I still need to use the www in URLs?

Posted on March 26, 2018
In March’s Internet Newsletter for Lawyers: The answer to the question “Do I still need to use the www in URLs?” is, of course, ?It depends.? It depends on the context. Read on.

Big Tech and AI in 2017

Posted on February 09, 2018
I recently posted a review of What we learned in 2017 on Internet Newsletter for Lawyers. Here are my bits from it and a few extracts from contributors. It has been apparent for some time that the biggest tech companies, (…)Read the rest of this entry »

The future of legal blogging

Posted on February 18, 2011
Image: Charon QC (In Blawg Review #292) Unfortunately I missed The future of legal blogging last night – a discussion hosted by a panel of legal bloggers David Allen Green (Jack of Kent / New Statesman), Carl Gardner (Head of Legal) and Adam Wagner (UK Human Rights Blog) and chaired by Catrin Griffiths, editor of [...

The future of legal blogging

Posted on February 17, 2011
In a while I shall comment on The future of legal blogging, a discussion hosted by a panel of legal bloggers David Allen Green (Jack of Kent / New Statesman), Carl Gardner (Head of Legal) and Adam Wagner (UK Human Rights Blog) and chaired by Catrin Griffiths, editor of The Lawyer...

Are (law) ebooks the future?

Posted on January 18, 2011
You can’t have missed the fact that Amazon’s fastest selling product last year was its Kindle ebook reader. Even I bought one. And during the year his Godliness Steve Jobs gave us the iPad tablet. Though the iPad is more than an a e-reader, as such it is of course much more book-like than an [...

Typography for Lawyers (the book)

Posted on December 09, 2010
With Typography for Lawyers Matthew Butterick ? who is a typographer turned lawyer ? has performed a service for lawyers that no-one else has done for other professions. Go on, Google “Typography for” and see what you come up with. You have to be a lawyer seriously concerned about the effect of print on page to [...

The hype cycle

Posted on November 08, 2010
Apropos my social meeja blues I consulted the web. Turns out I can plot my disillusionment on Gartner’s hype cycle representing the maturity, adoption and social application of specific technologies. Image: neweurasia.net Gartner now reckons microblogging is somewhat past the peak of inflated expectations and heading rapidly towards the trough of disillusionment, whereas “consumer-generated media” (do they [...

Social meeja blues

Posted on November 02, 2010
Time was when I was a guru of social meeja for lawyers. I was an early adopter with a keen eye for the potential of blogs, feeds and all that followed - and I sang its praises. I had a vibrant blawg with a large(ish) (in the scheme of things) band of followers and a [...

Footnotes suck

Posted on October 08, 2010
When I started out in law publishing I joined a young company with a modern approach. A key point in our house style, which I was instrumental in formulating, was “We eschew [nice word that] the use of footnotes.” Why? They don’t help the writer who has to partition their thoughts into mains and asides or [...

The legal web - a worthy mess

Posted on September 24, 2010
Jason Wilson is a law publisher with great insights. He has a nice clean minimalist blog with great pics accompanying each post. More importantly, he’s interested in the kind of questions I’m also trying to answer, such as: Can we crowdsource reliable analytical legal content? I have given considerable thought to this problem (and I have a [...

The new UK legislation service

Posted on September 05, 2010
Published in the Internet Newsletter for Lawyers, September 2010. Since late July we have a shiny new official home of UK legislation at legislation.gov.uk. In due course this will completely replace the two current legislation services at OPSI and the Statute Law Database...

FindLaw UK launches while the UK is on holiday

Posted on August 04, 2010
Just as we leave home with our buckets and spades, FindLaw UK launches. Originally an independent site where you could … well … find (US) law, FindLaw has been part of the Thomson Reuters empire for some years now and the UK site, like it’s US cousin, is “primarily a collection of free legal resources [...

Free case law ? an overview

Posted on July 05, 2010
Published in the Internet Newsletter for Lawyers, July 2010. Free case law is old hat now. The House of Lords posted its first judgment on the web in 1996 and BAILII ?freed the law? in 2000. But how far have we come since then? This article sums up the current position...

BabyBarista lucks out

Posted on July 02, 2010
Tim Kevan is on a roll. BabyBarista now has a tenancy at the Guardian in their new Law section. Congrats Tim! He’s suitably nice about the Grauniad: I’m really delighted to be joining the Guardian at such an exciting time in the development of their online strategy...

FreeLegalWeb

Posted on June 24, 2010
In case you haven’t heard via other channels, the FreeLegalWeb beta service is now live.

Personally, I think we?re tops

Posted on June 16, 2010
Have you noticed how recently your site has been doing so much better on Google? Those SEO efforts are really paying off, right? Wrong! Google is showing you what you want to see. Actually it’s been going on a long while. In April 2009 Goog introduced Personalized Search for everyone...

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