BAILII There may be those who think that a blog post on the BAILII appeal for funds and a short contribution from me to the BAILII appeal article at p 5 are more than enough. But I don’t think I have said enough. On top of its usefulness to me personally, which I mention in…
I am writing this in the positive afterglow of the latest successful SCL Conference. My relatively brief attendance was a lift for morale. But this focused event, and especially the focused and positive collection of attendees, does remind me that standards on these pages and on the web site need to be kept high to…
This issue sees a selection of predictions; the full set, which I heartily recommend, have, yet again, been the Web site’s crowd pleaser in the last month or so. But I am pleased that, predictions aside, we have managed to cover some of the issues which I think are going to figure prominently in 2005…
Spam Spam has grabbed general public attention over the last few weeks. There may be an SCL member somewhere whose life has been improved by the opportunity to refinance, renew his sceptic tank or enlarge his penis but I think I will risk little controversy by staking my colours to the mast and stating boldly:…
On 19 September 2002, over 400 delegates gathered in London for the e-Summit organised by the Office of the e-Envoy. The e-Summit was presented as the first event of its kind by Jeremy Vine of BBC’s Newsnight, who acted as host for the day. The aim of this meticulously organised and spectacularly staged event was…
I thought Ben Coppin’s article on the online sale of prescription drugs (C&L 13/4) was very interesting but the assertion that the Medicines Control Agency (MCA) has not prosecuted a single case under the Medicines Act 1968 is not correct. The site www.mca.gov.uk/ourwork/enforcemedleg/prosecutions.htm contains details of the recent prosecutions brought by the MCA. The MCA…
RollAroundFriday Some time ago, this column contained an obituary for the pioneering legal bulletin board, ‘Link’. This was a dial-up service on which lawyers exchanged news and views and occasionally met up for a drink. It sank before catching the Web wave. If you want some reassurance that some lawyers at least have a life,…
E-Conveyancing The timing of the publication of the Land Registry’s consultation document on e-conveyancing (www.e-conveyancing.gov.uk) meant that there was little point in this magazine merely reporting the proposals as they had been widely reported in mainstream publications. We have recently included considerable coverage of the general issues involved; indeed this issue looks at PISCES, which…
Thanks for yet another well written piece. We really don’t see enough straight talking in the literature of legal information. Picking up your point on publishers’ long-term commitment to free-access services I thought I would share my trials with Everyform, well-known to SCL members who voted it as the winner of our award for IT…