Articles
The law is almost free
A Page on the Web, published in the Solicitors Journal, March 2000 The week that saw the stock market flotation of a ridiculously overvalued ‘dot com’ also saw the launch of a minimally funded ‘dot org’ whose value to the UK lawyer is likely to be immense. BAILII, the British and Irish Legal Information Institute […]
Developing a search strategy
A Page on the Web, published in the Solicitors Journal, February 2000 July last year we looked at how to find things on the web – ie using search engines. This included some detail on how to refine searches using Boolean operators and other advanced techniques. Now librarians, information professionals and a minority of other […]
Looks good, but how does it feel?
A Page on the Web, published in the Solicitors Journal, January 2000 Around 800 law firms in England and Wales now have websites and with probably about the same number planning to go online in the next year or so, website design is an increasingly important consideration in the marketing and delivery of your firm’s […]
Lawyering on the Web
Published in the Legal Week Benchmarker, January 2000 Legal portals, ISPs and internet communities A portal (or gateway), as the word implies, is a site designed to provide access to the web. There are a number of sites providing useful indexes of legal resources for the UK lawyer. Two with the longest provenance are the […]
Researching the Legal Web 2nd edition
Researching the Legal Web: a guide to legal resources on the internet By Nick Holmes and Delia Venables Published by Butterworths, November 1999, 228pp In 1999 this was the ‘must have’ book for those using, or wanting to know about, the UK legal web. It references around 1,000 sites then of real practical value to […]
A walk down the internet High Street
A Page on the Web, published in the Solicitors Journal, November 1999. Back in January we looked at some examples of ‘internet shopping’ or e-commerce as it’s now commonly known. 1999 has seen most suppliers of substance implement e-commerce sites – ie sites where you can actually acquire the goods and services on offer, rather […]
Cases on the web
A Page on the Web, published in the Solicitors Journal, October 1999. House of Lords judgments The texts of all House of Lords judgments delivered since 14 November 1996 are on the House of Lords pages on the Parliament site. New judgments appear online within two hours of delivery at the House. Judgments are listed […]
Legislation on the web
A Page on the Web, published in the Solicitors Journal, September 1999. HMSO’s Legislation website gives access to the full texts of Acts published since January 1996, plus the Data Protection Act 1984, the Criminal Appeal Act 1995 and the Disability Discrimination Act 1995; explanatory notes of Acts from 1999 and summaries of a wide […]
Nick Holmes unlocks the gates
A Page on the Web, published in the Solicitors Journal, July 1999. A portal (or gateway), as the word implies, is a site designed to provide access to the web. Portals are flavour of the month these days, as a successful site will attract a high volume of traffic which will in turn attract advertising […]
Finding things on the web
A Page on the Web, published in the Solicitors Journal, June 1999. I suspect that few people other than information professionals and other web technofiles like using search engines. What users want is to find things on the web quickly and easily. They are not interested in how the data is gathered, indexed or delivered, […]
Is the law a can of beans?
A Page on the Web, published in the Solicitors Journal, May 1999. Can legal services be packaged and sold ‘off the shelf’ over the internet? Those who think not should open there eyes and look around, for it has been happening for some time. With the popularisation of computing in the early 80s came the […]
Nick Holmes finds the Government promising
A Page on the Web, published in the Solicitors Journal, April 1999. The Government last month published two documents of great import to you, web user, lawyer, businessman and citizen: The White Paper, The Future Management of Crown Copyright, lays the foundations for a flexible and responsive management system, and establishes the Government Information Asset […]
Nick Holmes finds the web in good form
A Page on the Web, published in the Solicitors Journal, March 1999. Form-filling is a necessary chore. Here’s how the web can make it easier. Many Government departments and agencies now publish versions of their forms on the web. These sites are of varying comprehensiveness and usefulness and appear to be directed more towards the […]
Nick Holmes goes Woolf hunting
A Page on the Web, published in the Solicitors Journal, February 1999. The implementation of the new Civil Procedure Rules is the cause for much unease in firms and chambers across the land. Although the Woolf proposals have been discussed and digested for many months, with the in force date of 26 April looming practitioners […]
Nick Holmes goes shopping
A Page on the Web, published in the Solicitors Journal, January 1999. What’s driving the development of the internet today is e-commerce. What is ‘e-commerce’? Why, it’s commerce with an ‘e’ on the front; that is buying and selling goods and services electronically, specifically on the internet. E-commerce is not new – people have been […]
