Whither the Legal Web? Part 1:
Legal Information
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1. The Law
Towards more accessible law by Nick Holmes
The vision for BAILII by Sir Henry Brooke
Current developments on BAILII by Joe Ury
Freeing the law in Ireland by Dr John Mee
Global legal research: WorldLII and the long-term vision by Prof Graham Greenleaf
The Statute Law Database by Nick Holmes
EU law and the Europa site by Sue Pettit
2. Government, Parliament and Justice
Public sector information by Nick Holmes
e-Government: delivering on the promise by Nick Holmes
Parliament by Delia Venables
Delivering e-justice: beyond information provision by Dominic Hartley
3. Scotland and Wales
Accessing Scottish legal resources: an advocate's view by Jonathan Mitchell QC
Welsh devolution and the web by Marie Navarro
Where next for Welsh legislation on the web? by Carolyn Kirby
4. Legal Information Services
What's new in legal information publishing? by Ann Hemming
Whither law publishing? by Nick Holmes
5. The Web
The core web technologies by Nick Holmes
The blogging phenomenon by Nick Holmes
A blogging case study: the IPKat by Jeremy Phillips and Ilanah Simon
Webfeeds: pulling the news that matters by Nick Holmes
Wikis: wacky or wonderful? by Nick Holmes
Contributors
Sir Henry Brooke
Chairman of the Trustees of BAILII, Lord Justice of Appeal in England and Wales since 1996, Vice-President of the Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Joe Ury
Executive Director of BAILII
Dr John Mee
Member of the Law Faculty at University College Cork, Trustee Director of BAILII
Prof Graham Greenleaf
Professor of Law at the University of New South Wales, Co-Director of AustLII and WorldLII, and Co-Director of the Baker & McKenzie Cyberspace Law and Policy Centre at UNSW
Sue Pettit
Subject Librarian for Law at the University of Bristol, founder listowner of lis-law, the Jiscmail list for UK legal information professionals, section editor of the SOSIG Law gateway
Dominic Hartley
Head of Technology, Department for Constitutional Affairs, responsible for the DCA's e-Business Strategy
Jonathan Mitchell
QC in the Murray Stable in Edinburgh, visiting fellow in the AHRC Centre for Studies in Intellectual Property and Technology Law, Scottish project lead for Creative Commons
Marie Navarro
Senior Editor of Cardiff Law School's Wales Legislation Online website, Master of Laws from the University of Amiens
Carolyn Kirby
Law Society Council member for Mid and West Wales, President of the Law Society of England and Wales 2002-2003, Chairman of the Law Society's Wales Committee, Chairman of the Mental Health Review Tribunal for Wales
Ann Hemming
Information Manager of Hugh James Solicitors, Chair of the Legal Information Group of the British and Irish Association of Law Librarians (BIALL)
Jeremy Phillips
Co-author of the IPKat weblog, IP consultant to Slaughter and May
Ilanah Simon
Co-author of the IPKat weblog, Doctoral Associate, Queen Mary Intellectual Property Research Institute
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