I don’t know about you, but I find I am using the internet all the time. I am constantly looking things up, checking facts and the law before I write something, or seeing what new blog posts have been written by others. And I want to get there quickly with no tedious looking [...]
Using the internet seems a bit like magic. You click on your computer and the fruits of knowledge of the whole world are at your fingertips. Just like that.
And now we are told that we do not even have to store information on our own machines – we can store it all ‘in the cloud’. [...]
I can remember, back in 1994 when set up in sole practice, after I had decided to get myself a computer to run it, buying a computer magazine. It was completely incomprehensible. There were all these references to normal sounding things like windows and buses, but they did not make sense. I [...]
The UK Supreme Court IT – revolutionary or rubbish?
Two diametrically opposed articles have caught my eye today, about the new Supreme Court.
1. Richard Susskind writing in the Internet Newsletter for Lawyers (Jan/Feb edition) talks admiringly about the court being the most technologically advanced in the UK, and describes how the Justices can call up documents and court papers with the flick of a [...]
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