“John Sheridan, the Digital Director of the National Archives will tell us about their new official judgments portal. Described by the Law Society Gazette as a “comprehensive online archive of ’judgments as data’’” it has been designed with its own “legal document markup language” to aid legal data insight generation.
This informative talk is hot off the press, John will share key points about the service before it is even officially launched. He’ll cover:
- Why has this service been created and for whom?
- What will be the scope of the product resource and how will it grow over time?
- Who are the intended users?
- How will this differ from BAILII / where do the two interconnect?
- Which issues are still being grappled with? What policies are still being debated over?
- How are the documents being encoded and what does this mean for digital legal data going forward, what are the possibilities? How does this fit into the development of other parliamentary materials?
Date: Wednesday March 9th
Time: 7pm
Venue: This is a virtual event via Zoom. Invites will be sent shortly before March 9th.
Cost: member free / non-member £25 (non-member’s ticket price includes one year’s CLIG membership – currently £25)
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THE ORIGINAL GOVT PRESS RELEASE
The National Archives to publish court and tribunal judgments
Important court and tribunal judgments will be available via The National Archives for the first time from April 2022.
At present there are multiple sources for court judgment publications, of which the British and Irish Legal Information Institute (BAILII) is the largest. The long-term aim is for all of them to migrate onto The National Archives website.
Judicial Review rulings, European case law, commercial judgments and many more cases of legal significance from the High Court, Upper Tier Tribunal, and the Court of Appeal will be published.
Following recommendations, made by The Legal Education Foundation in their Digital Justice Report, the Ministry of Justice committed to standardising its approach to the publication of judgments.
As the official archive and publisher for the UK Government, The National Archives was chosen because of its long-standing expertise in storing and publishing information securely.
BAILII will continue to provide free access to judgments, for other jurisdictions, including Scotland, Northern Ireland and the Commonwealth as well as England and Wales, continuing their great service to date.
Jeff James, Chief Executive and Keeper at The National Archives, said: ‘Court and tribunal judgments are vital public records. As world leaders in digital archiving and legal publishing, The National Archives will ensure that judgments are safely preserved and made accessible for the centuries to come.’
