Author: Nick Holmes
Nick Holmes is Editor of this Newsletter. He is a publishing consultant specialising in the legal sector and is Managing Director of legal web services company infolaw Limited. Email nickholmes@infolaw.co.uk. Twitter @nickholmes.
The Statute Law Database – an update
It is now 4 months since the Statute Law Database was released to the public. In the first couple of weeks following the launch there was a flurry of comment and criticism; but since then, near silence. Is everyone ecstatically happy with it, reserving their judgment or quietly cursing its shortcomings? I set out to […]
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The law wiki dream
In the last issue of the Newsletter, solicitor Steve Butler, who produces the UKLawyers weekly legal newswire, changed his former opinion that a grand centralised law wiki could be an enormously valuable resource (see Why Wikis Won’t Work (for The Law)). Having previously been impressed by Richard Susskind’s comments along these lines Steve now believes […]
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Developments in (free) legal information in 2006 and predictions for 2007
Statute Law Database After a 10-year wait, the Statute Law Database was finally released to the public just in time for Christmas (see part of the Home Page below). The Government Service enquiry system was launched in May 2006 and the pilot for the public version amongst selected trial users ran from July to October. […]
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