Ben, My brother in law is a law librarian and specialises in exactly this.
Email me off the list and I can put you in touch. Dave Durant On Aug 3, 2011 12:52 PM, "Ben Campbell" <[email protected]> wrote: > As part of a little experiment into tracking down sources of news > articles, I was wondering if there was any good way to track down > information about UK court cases? > > In my hopelessly naive idealised view of the world, each court case > would have a nice, permanent, URL on a .gov.uk site somewhere which > pulled together all the public information pertaining to that case - > title, participants, schedules, name of court, transcripts (are they > public?), whatever... > And obviously it'd be a simple matter of typing a few relevant keywords > into a search engine to find said URL. > > But of course out here in the real world, the web (particularly the > govt-run bits) is a big steaming heap of useless poo. > I've just spent an hour or so trying to track down _anything_ official > about a court case mentioned in a story, with no luck :-( > > Can anyone tell me how I - someone with no detailed legal knowledge - > should go about such a task? > > (if anyone is interested, it's a High Court challenge, mentioned in this > article: > http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2021670/Indian-Vali-Chapti-UK-migration-racism-row-insists-wont-learn-English.html > ) > > I'm sure at least one person named Francis will have a strong opinion on > this sort of thing ;-) > > Thanks, > Ben. > (coder at the Media Standards Trust) > > _______________________________________________ > developers-public mailing list > [email protected] > https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/developers-public > > Unsubscribe: https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/options/developers-public/dave%40bowsy.co.uk
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