Justice
Around and about the legal web January 2020
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Online Courts and the Future of Justice
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 jests, yet again. The message and the underlying arguments remain constant; the same analogies are […]
The Online Court and the digitisation of justice
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 civil claims, called HM Online Court (HMOC). This would overcome the fact that current practice […]
Transforming access to justice
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, Technology & Access to Justice blog; Joshua Browder, whose DoNotPay “robot lawyer”, initially developed to […]
The role of technology in legal advice and assistance
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 is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike licence.
Justice going digital (2)
You can view the progress of development of GOV.UK’s 25 digital exemplar services, of which 4 are the MoJ projects shown above, from the Digital Transformation dashboard. The Government Digital Strategy and Departmental Digital Strategies commit us to the redesigning and rebuilding of 25 significant ‘exemplar’ services. We’re going to make them simpler, clearer and […]
Justice going digital
Whatever you may feel about some of the cost-saving justice changes afoot, there’s no doubt that the government’s “digital by default” strategy will both help achieve some of the savings they crave and deliver better services. The Justice Secretary in the foreword to the MoJ Digital Strategy believes: It will transform the services we provide, […]
Justice on the move
Interested in access to justice? You bet. I’m not talking here about the withdrawal of legal aid though I urge you to follow #savukjustice and sign the petition if you have not already done so. What I’m referring to is the migration of content from the Justice website to GOV.UK. We’d just got used to […]
Wall of shame – vacuous and inaccurate free legal content
Nearly Legal has a beef about sub-standard “free legal content”. I’m with him. In Part 1 he looks at two services who peddle useless “legal” information for their own gain for SEO purposes. His exemplars are firstly Forward3D, an SEO agent for Irwin Mitchell, who wonder if he might “be interested in sharing some unique […]
Pay up, mate
A day in court is a rare event for me. So it was illuminating to attend a county court hearing assisting a friend trying to recover her tenancy deposit. Judgment had been issued against the landlord, who had failed to respond to the claim. In his application to set aside the judgment, apart from denying […]
Legal webbery 2007
It being the start of Blawg 2007 Conference day, I had better post something lest I be castigated there for not doing my homework. A good place to go when you are short of immmediate legal web stimulation is your fave blogs’ blogrolls. So it was that I recently examined Charon QC’s, finding two new […]
Possession Claim Online
The HMCS Possession Claim Online service has commenced live service in the seven proving courts within the South Wales area- Aberdare, Bridgend, Cardiff, Merthyr Tydfil, Neath & Port Talbot, Pontypridd & Swansea County Courts. Claimants who register with the PCOL service can issue and manage claims online through these courts, and defendantscan reply and view […]
Tribunals Service launched
The Tribunals Service, launched 1 April 2006, is a new executive agency of the DCA, providing common administrative support to the main central government tribunals. It marks the biggest change to the tribunals system in almost half a century. The following are now part of the Tribunals Service (some having transferred sponsoring departments), with new […]
The Criminal Case Management Framework
A second edition of the Criminal Case Management Framework has recently been issued by the CJS. The Framework is a guide for operational practitioners on managing cases in the most effective and efficient way from pre-charge through to conclusion, describing case management procedures and the roles and responsibilities for operating them of administrative staff and […]
