Author: John Sheridan

John Sheridan is Digital Director at The National Archives, responsible for TNA’s digital services, enabling TNA to fulfil its ambitions to become a digital archive by instinct and design. Email John.Sheridan@nationalarchives.gov.uk. Twitter johnlsheridan.

Find Case Law – six months on

Find Case Law is a new public service providing access to court judgments and tribunal decisions. It was launched in April 2022 and has been funded and developed by The National Archives, working with the Ministry of Justice, HMCTS and the Judicial Office. We set out with three goals for the Find Case Law service: […]

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Developments at legislation.gov.uk

Legislation.gov.uk, managed by The National Archives, provides an essential – and free – public service. Millions of people use it to find and access the legislation they need, lawyers and non-lawyers alike. Bringing legislation.gov.uk up to date Quick, easy to navigate and use, with an advanced timeline feature so you can see how legislation has […]

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Big Data for Law

Big data is big news. An estimated 90 per cent of the world’s data was created in the last two years (see www.ibm.com/big-data) and insights gleaned from large datasets are increasingly driving business innovation and economic growth. Underpinning this “big data revolution” is a powerful combination of low cost cloud computing, open source analytics software […]

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