Pages on the Web
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 […]
Nick Holmes looks back
A Page on the Web, published in the Solicitors Journal, November 1998. Just over three years ago I wrote my first ‘Page on the Web’ for the Solicitors’ Journal. Let’s look back to that time and see how things have changed. What is the internet today? In October 1995 few lawyers were using the web, […]
Lawyers needed by online services
A Page on the Web, published in the Solicitors Journal, October 1998. Two new online services for lawyers have just set up on the web. They need you; will you use them? Lawlink Lawlink serves as a web gateway – or portal as everyone is calling them nowadays (what’s the difference?, my dictionary certainly can’t […]
Keeping up with lawtech
A Page on the Web, published in the Solicitors Journal, September 1998. It goes without saying that every firm should have an IT strategy. But with the technologies developing so rapidly and new suppliers appearing almost daily, informed decisions become that much more difficult. How can you keep informed of developments? Where can you go […]
Are You on the Web?
A Page on the Web, published in the Solicitors Journal, July 1998. A recent survey by James & Cowper and Lawnet is reported to have found that 30 per cent of law practices have a website. Can this possibly be true? As with all surveys, the answer lies in the sample. 30 per cent of […]
The big guns are out
A Page on the Web, published in the Solicitors Journal, June 1998. Butterworths Direct In May Butterworths, the largest UK law publisher by some margin, launched a redesigned and rebadged site – Butterworths Direct, including a number of new information services. This event marks the transition of Butterworths’ web presence from an essentially ‘brochureware’ site […]
Fishing in the well-stocked Lawtel pond
A Page on the Web, published in the Solicitors Journal, February 1998. I have been remiss in not to date covering in this column in any substantial way the most significant legal research site on the web – Lawtel. Launched as a Prestel service in 1980, it failed to attract any significant following until after […]
The ultimate travel pass
Published in the Butterworth’s Law Link, February 1998. Why do we like the Web? What is the reason for its phenomenal success? In a phrase, freedom of travel: it frees us from the boundaries inherent in other publishing media. We buy a ticket and can travel anywhere and everywhere. We take whichever route we choose […]
Web Watch January 1998
Published in the Solicitors Journal. Freedom of Information The Chancellor of the Duchy, published the Government’s White Paper, Your Right to Know, setting out its proposals for a Freedom of Information Act on 11 December 1997, saying that ‘Openness is fundamental to the political health of a modern state. This White Paper marks a watershed […]
Tracking down cases galore
A Page on the Web, published in the Solicitors Journal. January 1998. It was only four short months ago that I reported on the increasing availability of judgments on the web. Winter has seen a hive of activity in this area and you are now almost spoilt for choice, though the new services do come […]
Web Watch October/November 1997
The Shetland Islands revisited The parties to the Shetland News hyperlinking case (see January’s Page) have agreed that the News can hyperlink to the Shetland Times on condition that each link includes a logo and an attribution. Thus as yet no stunning precedent on whether or not hyperlinks may require the linked site’s permission. Social […]
Periodically yours – the online law journals
A Page on the Web, published in the Solicitors Journal, October 1997. There are not many UK legal journals yet online, and those that are published on the web are mainly academic journals. One may question whether, in fact, a ‘web journal’ is an appropriate concept. The web is a new medium, demanding a new […]
Passing Judgment on the Web
A Page on the Web, published in the Solicitors Journal, September 1997. House of Lords judgments One of the principal links from the House of Lords home page on the Parliament site is Judicial Business. From this page you can find information on the judicial work of the House of Lords describing the jurisdiction of […]
