This page was last updated on January 25th.
Note that there is a separate page for
chambers offering significant legal resources online
here.
* indicates the sites I think are particularly useful.
Neil Addison, of Palmyra Chambers in Warrington, Cheshire provides two important sites:
* Harassment Law covers all topics related to harassment.
There are sections on stalking, malicious communications, racial, sexual, religious
or cultural harassment, harassment at work and anti-social behaviour (including neighbours from hell).
There are links to relevant legislation and sources of training and assistance.
* Religion Law UK is designed to provide practical
information and relevant web links on the subject of
Religion and the Law today. He covers the law relating to criminal and also civil situations where religion is
involved and also has sections for case law relevant to religion, with links to the judgments
if they are available. There are also reports and articles, a section on international declarations
and a very comprehensive set of links to religious bodies under headings of
Legal, Catholic, Protestant, Orthodox, Muslim, Jewish, Eastern and General.
He makes the distinction that the site contains information rather than comment but he also now writes a blog called
Religion Law blog with comments on cases and
religion law issues. recent posts include "What do we mean by ‘A Secular Society’" and
"How do you solve a problem like Sharia?" - both major essays on the topics concerned.
Peter Aeberli is a practising barrister,
arbitrator, mediator and adjudicator specialising in construction law. There
are articles and background material on this general area.
John Antell, from Godolphin
Chambers in Truro, provides reports on
employment law cases, particularly those relating to the employment status of agency
workers and contractors. He also covers accidents, workplace stress and
Unfair Dismissal.
*Daniel Barnett employment barrister of 1 Temple Gardens
created and runs the first ever Employment Law email bulletin service, which has been running since 1999.
Over 24,000 recipients receive these bulletins, including judges, tribunal members, barristers, solicitors,
in-house lawyers, HR professionals, academics, journalists and union officials. Bulletins go out two or
three times a week, subscription is free, and there is an archive of past bulletins on the site. Daniel
is a regular commentator in the broadcast media and extracts from radio and television appearances are available.
* Francis Bennion who describes himself as "defender
of the rule of law", has been writing on law, professional ethics, human rights, sexual ethics and
many other legal and political topics for over 40 years. A former Parliamentary Counsel (draftsman
of Government legislation), he has had around 150 letters to the Times published (since 1949)
and has written poetry, fiction and plays. This site was started in 1999 and records most of
his writings year by year (click Chronological in side bar): there are 1,000 pages of these materials.
I would say that he is one of the Great British Eccentrics - you may not agree with everything he
writes, but you cannot fail to be impressed. Many lawyers and law students have used the free material
drawn from his books and articles.
Tony Bingham, of 3 Paper Buildings,
is a construction barrister, arbitrator, adjudicator and columnist for "Building Magazine".
The site contains information about the Building and
Construction industry, together with Building and Construction Law, an explanation of
Arbitration, Adjudication and ADR, and a good set of links in these areas.
Bill Braithwaite
of Exchange Chambers in Manchester,
provides articles and extensive case reports of cases he has been involved in involving Personal Injury.
There are also notes of cases which have settled and the amounts of settlement.
Bill was Consultant Editor of Kemp & Kemp on The Quantum of
Damages, the standard text book for use in that area of personal injury law, from 1995 to 2004. There
is information about his book "Brain and Spine Injuries - The Fight for Justice".
Naomi Cunningham provides a blog called
Employment Tribunal Claims to
supplement her book Employment Tribunal Claims: tactics and precedents.
The blog is organised with each posting cross-referenced to the number of the paragraph of the book that
it supplements. The book (and the blog) is aimed at claimants in person, unqualified advisers, and
inexperienced lawyers.
The site also contains links to all the statutory discrimination questionnaires in particular, Disability, Equal Pay,
Orientation, Race, Religion or Belief and Sex, which can otherwise be quite hard to track down.
* Jamal Demachkie provides a site called The Housing Law Website,
a user friendly guide to UK Housing Law.
The information is aimed at both landlords and tenants and includes a section
on recent caselaw and legislative changes. Jamal is a barrister at 3 Paper Buildings.
Peter Duckworth, of
Middle Temple and Lincoln's Inn, is author of
Duckworth Matrimonial Property & Finance. The site offers software called
Family Finance Toolkit (authored jointly with Graham Reeds)
which enables the user to plan financial settlements with maximum
speed, accuracy and efficiency.
Jacqui Gilliatt provides a blog called Bloody relations
about UK family law. The description of the blog is "Where there's a relative there's a bloody good argument to
be had". The blog is associated with Jacqui's chambers website
4 Brick Court and there are a large number of articles on family law there
and a monthly "update" on family law with summaries of recent cases, articles etc.
Jonathan Goodliffe provides material on legal issues arising
from alcohol misuse in a variety of different situations. His recent articles include Discriminating against the former drinker,
Drink driving and the wider purpose of insurance and Insurance issues for people with mental health problems.
Brian Harris, Garrett Byrne and Andrew Carnes, all of 4-5 Gray's Inn Square,
are offering a site called
Regulatory Law. The site brings together legislation, case law and other
materials concerning The Law and Practice of Disciplinary and Regulatory Proceedings.
It is intended to be of assistance to practitioners representing clients before disciplinary tribunals,
as well as to those involved in authorization, registration and admission procedures and those responsible
for drawing up and administering regulatory and disciplinary procedures.
* Roger Horne, from the
Chambers of Sonia Proudman QC at 11 New Square, Lincoln's Inn, offers what
he describes as a "Miscellany". The site contains an analysis of copyright
issues in law reporting in the UK and other countries, some experiments
with indexing the references of the House of Lords Judgments, and some
ideas for the future of law reporting using the web. He has also taken the
new Civil Procedures Rules on a part of his site called "YAWS" (Yet Another Woolf Site)
and added internal linking to the material. There are over 300 full text judgments
included in the material and the YAWS site as a whole occupies over 91mb.
As well as the Rules and Practice Directions and cases, it includes inter alia relevant
Statutory Instruments and Court Guides and the new guide to Chancery Business at Central London Civil Justice Centre.
He has also prepared a zipped version which can
be downloaded in one go and then perused off-line. The site also provides information
on XML and the Law.
James Kessler, of 24 Old Buildings,
hosts a discussion forum
on trusts. The Forum is a moderated mailing list initiated in October 1998
and covering topics relating to the drafting and administration of trusts, wills and other
private client issues including taxation.
Stephen Mason has a particular expertise in electronic evidence and
electronic signatures. He reports, on his site, on the legal issues involved
with the first PIN ATM case to go to trial (he represented the claimant).
There is extensive information on
electronic signatures on his site, including books,
reports, legislation and cases - a valuable and unique resource. He has
written one of the key books on this subject himself -
Electronic Signatures in Law
(Tottel, 2nd edition, 2007), together with the only book on
Electronic Evidence.
Jonathan Mitchell a Scottish QC from the Murray Stable,
writes a blog on Scots Law and legal practice although his blog does stray into the English system and
even the rest of the world!
* Nik Nicol, of
1 Pump Court, offers extensive information relating to support for asylum seekers
(i.e. housing and subsistence).
There is also an introduction to the English Legal System (and available in Spanish too).
All these articles are excellent introductions to the respective topics, including extensive links to other resources.
* Personal Injury Brief Update (PIBU)
is a free email newsletter which gives a brief introduction to recent case law, news
alerts and information of developments in the industry. This newsletter, which goes to over 13,000 people,
is written by a team of five barristers who specialise in personal injury.
There is a further extended version of this newsletter called Personal Injury Brief Update Law Journal (PIBULJ)
which is written by over 30 barristers as well as a number of medical and health and safety experts.
Whilst the newsletter will remain free, the Law Journal is subscription-based with
hardback copies being published by xpl Publishing every six months. The latest issue of the newsletter
and the Law Journal can be viewed
here.
Another newsletter is
Law Brief Update (LBU) which provides a free email newsletter
containing brief law reports from around 20 participating barristers on all major areas of law.
Dr Michael J Powers QC, leader of the Medical Law Group at Clerksroom,
specialises in major medical negligence actions (cerebral palsy, anaesthetic
brain damage, neuro/cardiac surgery) for both plaintiffs and defendants,
as well as group litigation involving medical treatment, and pharmaceutical litigation.
His site provides a number of articles on these topics.
Charles Price, of No5 Chambers, Birmingham, Bristol and London,
provides a site covering the latest developments in employment law and offering practical advice for employment lawyers.
You can sign up for a regular email "E-Missive" on these topics. There are also free lecture notes on grievance procedures,
new employment tribunal procedure and age discrimination. He also writes an
Employment Law Blog.
Jonathan Turner of 13 Old Square,
provides case reports and articles on IP, competition and IT law.
He has acted in a number of interesting internet cases,
including French Connection v Sutton (fcuk.com) and Antiquesportfolio.com v Fitch
(copyright in photographs on the net, duties of website designers),
as well as other significant IP cases such Designers Guild v Russell Williams,
PLG v Ardon, Reckitt & Colman v Borden (Jif lemon) and C&H v Klucznik.
* Gary Webber, of 33 Bedford Row,
runs The Property Law Website, an online property law updating service with additional material
from a number of other property specialists. Updates are available on the site
each month, together with appropriate links to cases, statutes, statutory instruments and other
documents. It is also possible to
download the monthly updates in pdf or word format. Material from the monthly updates is also put into
"The Property Law Library" section of the site, which contains articles, summaries of cases,
statutes, statutory instruments and other material. There is a section covering courses
available which relate to property law, an extensive description of the web resources on the topic and a
list of mediators available to deal
with property law disputes. Some parts of the site are free but full access is only available to members
who subscribe, currently £99 plus VAT, with group rates offered.
Pearl Willis,
of Northampton Chambers, provides some reports on cases and commentary on Family, Child Care,
Criminal cases and other fields of law.
Individual Barristers Offering Legal Resources on their Web Sites