The road to free law
Published in the Solicitors Journal, October 2000 [links updated] As most practitioners will be aware, there exists no freely available, comprehensive and up-to-date database of UK law on the internet,...
View ArticleMore free law – open access to judgments for legal teaching
On 5 May JISC (the Joint Information Systems Committee) and BAILII unveiled the Open Law project which has the potential to transform the delivery of legal teaching and public access to legal materials...
View ArticleWhat’s up with Daily Law Notes?
ICLR is in the process of morphing its Daily Law Notes service into WLR Daily. “Welcome to the new look case summary service from ICLR that replaces the Daily Law Notes. The service remains the same;...
View ArticleOpen Law leading the way
The recent accessions page on BAILII shows that a number of leading judgments from the 17th century onwards have recently been added. These are the first fruits of the BAILII/JISC Open Law project...
View ArticleCaseCheck
Here’s a great new Law 2.0 initiative. CaseCheck, headed by Stephen Moore, offers case summaries from the Scottish Courts and EAT, delivered latest-first and also categorised, with RSS feeds. Selected...
View ArticleAustLII case law developments
The good people at AustLII have been working on a citator for common law cases and the fruits of their labours can now be checked out at LawCite (Alpha). LawCite is an international case citator and is...
View ArticleCaseCheck crosses the border
CaseCheck, headed by Stephen Moore, has since late 2007 been delivering case summaries from the Scottish Courts and EAT in a Web 2.0 environment. Now, in a tie-up with Law Brief Publishing, CaseCheck...
View ArticleSupreme Court judgments – where to read the full story
Thanks to Jennie Law for pointing out that the new UKSC needs to get its publishing act together. It’s been in existence for almost four weeks now and has the most advanced court technology in the...
View ArticleMore on Legal Opinions on Google Scholar
From the Law Librarian Blog on a one and a half hour interview with Google engineer Anurag Acharya on the Law Librarian Blog Talk Radio looking into Google Scholar Legal Opinions and Journals: Google...
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Free case law – an overview
Published in the Internet Newsletter for Lawyers, July 2010. Free case law is old hat now. The House of Lords posted its first judgment on the web in 1996 and BAILII “freed the law” in 2000. But how...
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BAILII: Is free law enough?
It is ironic that BAILII, which came into being to free the law, has been called out recently for restricting access to the law. A Guardian editorial in September criticised the status quo in relation...
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ICLR online – who’s putting it through its paces?
I’m wondering who’s using ICLR online and how they’re getting on? The service launched 18 October to a list of over 350 delegates that was “fairly select and exclusive due to the nature of our...
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Lord Neuberger on access to judgments
On 20 November Lord Neuberger, President of the Supreme Court, delivered the First Annual BAILII Lecture, entitled No Judgment – No Justice (PDF) in which he dealt with three important aspects of...
View ArticleOpen law: digital common property
Open law is the idea that public legal information should be freely available to everyone to access, use and republish. The current position in the UK differs completely as between legislation and case...
View ArticleOpen case law is here at last
My piece about new Case Law service from the The National Archives.
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