On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 11:28 PM, Francis Davey <[email protected]> wrote: > > You've already had a considerable amount of information on the > subject, so I what I say will (I hope) build on what has already been > said.
As an interested reader of the discussion, can I just say thanks a lot for taking the time to write all this down? This is tremendously helpful for us non-lawyers to understand how the system is actually run on a day-to-day basis and why some records are available and others aren't... By the way, do you have any experience with the PACER system of the US (federal) courts and if so, what's your opinion of it? I obviously dislike the fact that you have to open an account to look at the data and also pay for it, although the latter is somewhat mediated by the fact that they only charge once you incurred $10, and also because of the existence of things like https://www.recapthelaw.org/ which at least helps for cases which are well known and in the public interest (i.e. many looked at it before and maybe someone even used RECAP). What I really admire about PACER is that you have a look at PDF copies of - almost - every thing that has been filed by either party or the court, unless of course it's sealed, but that it rather rare in non-national-security cases, I think. I'm not sure on how PACER fares with respect to meta-data...and of course because it isn't free, it's not really compatible with (free) third party sites. All best Michael _______________________________________________ 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/archive%40mail-archive.com
