Legal Web 2007/2008 – Topics for Barristers
 An e-book with CPD
by Nick Holmes and Delia Venables
Questions to be answered for CPD

Purchasers of Legal Web 2007/2008 - Topics for Barristers who wish to earn 5 CPD points should complete and submit the form below to me (Delia Venables) once they have read the e-book.

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Note that these questions are not on substantive issues of the law but are straightforward questions about the topics and sites described in the course and are designed to show that you have indeed read the material and visited the principle sites described.

We will change the questions from time to time, so make sure that you are accessing the most recent set of questions when you come to take the test. The last changes to these questions were made on August 18th 2007.

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I have completed the course Legal Web 2007/2008 - Topics for Barristers and here are the answers to the questions.

Question 1:

Name two areas, described in Chapter 1, where the internet has opened up new ways of working for a modern chambers.

Question 2:

Name two areas, described in Chapter 1, where the internet has actually brought new problems (or at least “issues”) for a modern chambers.

Question 3:

Give two factors relating to the internet which have enabled virtual chambers to be set up.

Question 4:

Give two ways in which Clerksroom and BarristerWeb differ in the way they run their virtual chambers.

Question 5:

Name three of the “audiences” that a web site has to cater for (be specific).

Question 6:

What are the two main external resources to which the Garden Court Chambers legal resources provides links?

Question 7:

Describe two specific types of library provision that the Inns of Court Libraries can provide which are not generally possible for chambers libraries.

Question 8:

Describe a specific disincentive to replacing a hard copy subscription with an online subscription (unrelated to cost).

Question 9:

Name four software-related services which many chambers are now treating as “Software as a Service” (i.e. outsourcing).

Question 10:

Name some of the precautions to take before “outsourcing” your IT to an external company.

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