Government
Open data: free to use and republish
In the last issue we looked at the concept of open law; we should probably now take a step back and consider what is meant by open data. Open data is the idea that some data should be freely available to everyone to use and republish as they wish, without restrictions from copyright, patents or […]
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Government surveillance
There are many different facets to an Orwellian dystopian society (in which, some may argue, we already live) where privacy no longer exists and Big Brother is watching everyone. Some of the culprits are data mining and tracking used by the tech giants for profiling internet denizens in order to realise lucrative profits from highly […]
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Employment tribunal judgments online
Employment tribunal judgments are now available online on GOV.UK at www.gov.uk/employment-tribunal-decisions. Previously, in order to read a first instance judgment, you had to hope that one of the parties published it or that the judiciary website considered it to be of sufficient importance to publish or to take a trip to the central register and […]
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Getting the best from GOV.UK
The Government has been transitioning its published web data to the GOV.UK platform over the last few years. Since the move of departmental websites over to GOV.UK, which completed in December 2014, documents and information have become increasingly hard to find. Collections of information on certain topics that previously could be browsed on departmental websites […]
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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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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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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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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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The Justice website
The Justice site was launched in April 2011 as the government’s attempt to bring together all websites related to the UK justice system for the professional user. Initially it was a rather desperate attempt to patch together lots of different sites, all with different underlying architectures and different views of what they were trying to […]
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Rough and ready Justice
On 1 April 2011 the Justice site (www.justice.gov.uk) was born. This is not the Ministry of Justice site by another name but the beginnings of a “super-site” that will act as a portal to all services within the justice system for the professional user. The previous administration’s “Transformational Government Strategy” (published by the Cabinet Office […]
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Family Procedure Rules OK?
The Family Procedure Rules 2010 came into effect on 6 April 2011. The new Rules attempt to provide a single set of rules for all family proceedings in all levels of court, thereby replacing a large body of unconsolidated rules, practice directions, guidance and forms. At the same time, the Rules aim to modernise many […]
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The RTA PI claims process – progress?
Following my article on the new claims process in the last issue, I caught up with Dominic Corr, our IT director, to find out what progress had been made. He reports: “Systems integration involves Structured Systems Analysis, Design Methodology and elements of Rapid Application Development. This project from the beginning was simply about assembling data […]
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