On 14/01/2011 14:23, Nick Leaton wrote:
The other big part is legal data.
Why should court reports, statutes not be in the public sector?
Statute law is already freely available at statutelaw.gov.uk, which is
one of the better examples of how to do it well. Court reports are more
problematic because of data protection considerations, but, even so, a
fair amount is available.
The problem with court data, at least in England and Wales (Scotland is
better, in this respect), is that, for a variety of historical reasons,
a single third-party organisation has an effective monopoly on free
publication and yet doesn't do it particularly well. This is something
that needs to be changed, certainly (see discussion of Bailli passim),
but that's a rather different issue to cases where data isn't available
at all.
Mark
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http://mark.goodge.co.uk
http://www.ratemysupermarket.com
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