Latest Specialised Websites
by Delia Venables
Specialised sites are still coming onto the web at a good rate!
Here are the latest ones I have come across:
Got-the-boot.com is a web-site belonging to a firm of
specialist employment law solicitors called GMH, based in Birmingham, West Midlands. The site provides
a great deal of free information on employment law relating to dismissal and Employment Tribunals.
The user fills up a form about the situation and GMH give initial advice and quote fees for further work.
GMH does not have a "brochure" site - just this specialised one.
Employ-claims is a site from the
specialist Employment Law division of Oxford and Reading firm Pearce West (again, no "brochure" site).
The site covers claims relating to Unfair Dismissal, Wrongful Dismissal, Constructive Dismissal,
Breach of Contract, Race and Sex Discrimination and Advice on Compromise Agreements.
Higgins & Co. of Birkenhead is another firm without a separate general brochure site but instead has three specialised sites:
asbestosis.org.uk,
injurysolicitors.com and
bikeclaim.net.
Each of these contains a great deal of information on the relevant topic.
divorce-lawfirm is a new site from Stratford-upon-Avon firm
Woolley & Co. The new site provides over 40 pages of free information
on divorce and related topics. There are case studies, questions and answers, leaflets and articles
and a flowchart of divorce as well as links to other resources including a calculator to work out child maintenance
on the child support agency site.
There is a special section on divorce for British Expats.
Fox Williams now provide a whole series of
specialised sites:
Fashion Law,
Britinvest,
bestlawjobs,
cyberlaw,
hrlaw,
llplaw and
agentlaw.
The sites are by no means all developed from the same formula - some are simple,
some have lots of pictures and some are quite "flashy", but they mostly
share the characteristics of having a FAQ section and a useful links section
(related to the special topic). In most cases, the sites have their own url (thus
maximising success in search engines) but are then
redirected to a section of the main site (presumably making it easier to keep the sites
up to date and under control).
Lawdit Solicitors of Southampton offer several specialised
sites relating to IT law -
* The Trade Mark Room for taking trademark registration requests online
* Police and Protect for assisting in internet brand protection, and
* Lawdit Resolve an alternative approach to litigating matters and resolving disputes.
The sites, all linked together, provide a veritable cornucopia of information on these topics.
Coal Compensation is a site set up by
Hugh James Solicitors
to assist (and attract) people with claims relating to coal mining. Apparently, the firm has been litigating against and
negotiating with British Coal and its successors, now effectively the government, for over 30 years.
There is lots of information about different types of
claim - chest disease, vibration white finger, deafness, subsidence and nuisance.
designprotect.com is a service from
Briffa, Intellectual Property and Information
Technology lawyers. The low cost service (£40 for a year, just intended as an admin charge)
provides designers with checklists of information and an informal log of their designs which provides protection in
subsequent copyright disputes. There is also a "design shop" which
provides standard forms for design businesses including graphic and industrial designers.
Users of the service who then want to formally register their designs at the Patent Office
can instruct Briffa to carry out the work.
Road Law has been set up by former criminal solicitor
Martin Davies who runs Law on the Web.
There is lots of free information on the site including guidance on possible penalites and motorists
can also obtain legal advice and representation throughout England and Wales at fixed prices. Firms who
specialise in road traffic law can join the panel of firms associated with the site for a fee.
Education Law Unit of Govan Law Centre has an extensive site
covering educational issues. The unit, partly funded by Glasgow city Council, describes itself as "the national expert
legal resource for anyone who advises either children with special educational needs or their parents.
Working in partnership with the voluntary, statutory and independent sectors, we seek to increase the
quality and availability of training, information and advice available to such advisers and to support
and assist them in making the rights of children with special educational needs a reality."
As well as the material on special educational needs, the site covers Scottish Educational news generally and
developments in legal issues with frequent updates.
If you have a really good specialised site which I have not mentioned recently, please let
me know!
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