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.
Legal Web Watch March 2015
Legal Web Watch is a free monthly email service which complements the Internet Newsletter for Lawyers. To receive Legal Web Watch regularly sign up here. Follow Nick Holmes on Twitter @nickholmes. Continuing competence after 1 April In the March issue of the Newsletter, Ruth Bird and Natasha Choolhun consider the role digital literacy skills should […]
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VAT on cross-border digital services
On 1 January 2015 the VAT rules for cross-border B2C supplies of digital services changed. From that date, VAT must be accounted for in the member state where the customer normally lives, rather than where the supplier of the service is established. From the UK perspective, this should ensure that sellers of digital services will […]
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Legal Web Watch January 2015
Legal Web Watch is a free monthly email service which complements the Internet Newsletter for Lawyers. To receive Legal Web Watch regularly sign up here. Follow Nick Holmes on Twitter @nickholmes. Where has all the GOV stuff gone? Digital Champion, Martha Lane Fox, first mooted the idea of a single government website back in 2010. […]
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Changes to CPD for 2015
Thanks to all those who earned some or most of their 2014 CPD with us recently. As solicitors should by now be aware, the SRA is moving towards a new approach to continuing competence. You can continue to record 16 hours CPD annually for relevant activity (accreditation is no longer an issue) until October 2016, […]
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Legal Web Watch November 2014
Do lawyers need to be digitally competent? I ask this because I have been looking into the future for CPD in the two professions. Both are moving away from measuring CPD hours towards systems based on self-certified continuing competence. The SRA is more advanced and has issued a Draft Competence Statement for consultation with a […]
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Legal Web Watch September 2014
Legal Web Watch is a free monthly email service which complements the Internet Newsletter for Lawyers. To receive Legal Web Watch regularly sign up here. Follow Nick Holmes on Twitter @nickholmes. Big Internet? No thanks The early adopters have been getting restless lately. I’m with them. This is not what we signed up for. Alan […]
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Justice online
Justice.gov.uk is on borrowed time. The intention is to move all information on that site and many other justice system websites to GOV.UK. Justice.gov.uk and those other websites will ultimately disappear. Much has moved already. As such, it is important to get to grips with GOV.UK. This article describes its structure and features with reference […]
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Legal Web Watch July/August 2014
Legal Web Watch is a free monthly email service which complements the Internet Newsletter for Lawyers. To receive Legal Web Watch regularly sign up here. Follow Nick Holmes on Twitter @nickholmes. Dot rollout – hundreds of new domains hit the streets It's sobering to reflect that 20 years ago most businesses, even big businesses, didn't […]
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Legal Web Watch June 2014
Legal Web Watch is a free monthly email service which complements the Internet Newsletter for Lawyers. To receive Legal Web Watch regularly sign up here. Follow Nick Holmes on Twitter @nickholmes. Reinventing law – the Twitter story Reinvent Law London 2014, a conference featuring presentations on "law + technology + innovation + entrepreneurship" was held […]
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Legal Web Watch May 2014
Legal Web Watch is a free monthly email service which complements the Internet Newsletter for Lawyers. To receive Legal Web Watch regularly sign up here. Follow Nick Holmes on Twitter @nickholmes. Privacy? Forget about it Insofar as we still measure column inches on the web, many yards in the last month have been devoted to […]
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Legal Web Watch April 2014
Legal Web Watch is a free monthly email service which complements the Internet Newsletter for Lawyers. To receive Legal Web Watch regularly sign up here. Follow Nick Holmes on Twitter @nickholmes. Internet law (copyright in particular) April 26 was World IP Day. I didn’t notice too many people getting excited by this. But one who […]
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Legal Web Watch March 2014
Legal Web Watch is a free monthly email service which complements the Internet Newsletter for Lawyers. To receive Legal Web Watch regularly sign up here. Follow Nick Holmes on Twitter @nickholmes. The web at 25 and a digital bill of rights It was 25 years ago that Tim Berners Lee, working at CERN, “invented” the […]
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