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 February 2014
Legal Web Watch is an email service which complements the Internet Newsletter for Lawyers. This issue was published 15 February. To receive Legal Web Watch sign up here. Nick’s legal web picks Legal futurology Legal Futures is the leading UK site tracking the fast-evolving legal landscape, providing daily news coverage on alternative business structures, new […]
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Legal Web Watch December 2013
Legal Web Watch is a new email service which complements the Internet Newsletter for Lawyers. The below issue was published 15 December. Legal Web Watch is sent to subscribers to the Internet Newsletter for Lawyers, purchasers of our Legal Web CPD courses and some others on our lists we have had contact with in the […]
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RSS is alive and well
More than six years ago I predicted RSS would explode. Perhaps I used the wrong word. For most web users the earth did not move; they either remained blissfully unaware of RSS or couldn’t care less about it. And these days we have so many better ways of sharing latest updates. Who needs RSS when […]
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Blogging law updates
There are now several hundred legal blogs in the UK, covering every shade of legal writing. A relatively small number seek to provide a high level of ongoing commentary and analysis of developments in the law. We’re asking the founders to profile their blogs. View all blog profiles.
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Justice on the move
Content has recently started migrating away from the Justice website. We’d just got used to the new Justice portal when GOV.UK came along promising to be the new single domain for government information (see the March issue). A new home on GOV.UK According to the Justice home page, “Ministry of Justice corporate content has moved […]
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Keeping up to date with the law (2)
This is the second in our series on independent publishers providing law update services and their views on BAILII and legislation.gov.uk. In the last issue we covered CaseCheck, Law Brief Publishing and Daniel Barnett. Bath Publishing Bath Publishing was founded in 2004. We currently run two legal update sites: Employment Cases Update on our own […]
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Keeping up to date with the law
BAILII has been providing free access to case law for 14 years and legislation.gov.uk provides advanced (if not yet up to date) open access to all in force legislation. These resources have changed the ground rules for law publishing: smaller publishers are relying on them, adding their own value and developing new update services. We […]
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The web is (only) 20 years’ old
On 30 April 1993 CERN published a statement that made World Wide Web (“W3”, or simply “the Web”) technology available on a royalty-free basis. By making the software required to run a web server freely available, along with a basic browser and a library of code, the web was allowed to flourish. British physicist Tim […]
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What’s up GOV?
If you’ve recently used any government service online you will probably have been directed to GOV.UK. On 17 October 2012 it replaced Directgov and BusinessLink as the place to go for government services. And on 15 November the first government departmental and agency websites started their migration to the Inside Government section of GOV.UK. As […]
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Access to judgments
On 20 November 2012 Lord Neuberger, President of the Supreme Court, delivered the First Annual BAILII Lecture, entitled “No Judgment – No Justice” in which he dealt with three important aspects of improving access to justice through improved access to judgments: their clarity, free dissemination and enhancement. His intro para is worth quoting here in […]
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eBooks for lawyers – an essential guide
Although eBooks have been around in various guises for many years, they only hit the big time in 2010 with the introduction of Kindle 3 from Amazon and the launch of the iPad from Apple; they have since exploded in popularity to the extent that Amazon now sells more eBooks than print editions. On the […]
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Bringing the statute book up to date
Since July 2010 we have had a world class official home of UK legislation at legislation.gov.uk delivered by The National Archives (TNA). The sophisticated service provides simple and direct browse access to legislation by type, year and number and simple or advanced searches. Any piece of primary legislation or legislation fragment may be viewed as […]
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