Legal Web 2008/2009 – Topics of Modern Legal Practice
 An ebook with CPD
by Nick Holmes and Delia Venables
Questions to be answered for CPD

Purchasers of Legal Web 2008/2009 - Topics of Modern Legal Practice who wish to earn 5 CPD points should complete and submit the form below to me (Delia Venables) once they have read the material.

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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 read the material, visited the principle sites described and considered the issues involved.

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 October 9 2009.

There are 10 questions below, and there are 2 questions for each of the 5 chapters of the course. Do not worry about the precise style or format of the answers - the questions will be marked by a human being (i.e. me) not a machine! However, do not hit "Return" or "Tab" in the middle of one of your answers, since the system then assumes that you have finished answering that question. The answers should be short - one or two short sentences please, not an essay. Please note that you have to complete and submit the test in one session - you cannot save the answers and then come back to them on another occasion.

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I have completed the course Legal Web 2008/2009 - Topics of Modern Legal Practice and here are the answers to the questions.

Question 1:

Describe (very briefly) two characteristics of SaaS.

Question 2:

Give two advantages of SaaS specifically for barristers.

Question 3:

Give examples of two situations where there is a need for data protection information that is wider than any one country.

Question 4:

Give two examples of federated search systems for legal materials available in the UK and a few words about each.

Question 5:

Briefly describe the "packaged" legal services offered online by two of the companies described in this chapter.

Question 6:

Are these services a major threat to solicitors? (Just a few brief points on this topics)

Question 7:

What is the UK body responsible for managing domain names? What is the body responsible for internet policy (including domain names) worldwide?

Question 8:

Why (very briefly) are domain names such a valuable asset?

Question 9:

Give two examples of the electronic presentation of evidence.

Question 10:

Describe "format shifting" and how a format shifting copyright exception would work.

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