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A Scots Law Portal: Putting Scots Law on the Digital Map

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 July 2008

John Sibbald
Affiliation:
John Sibbald runs Professional Library Services which provides library and information consultancy services chiefly to law firms. A former Librarian of the Advocates Library, he has also been Chairman of the Scottish Society for Computers and Law and is now its first Hon. Vice President. He has contributed IT law related articles to a number of journals and spoken at and chaired numerous IT Law conferences and seminars. He is a Scottish consulting editor for Computers & Law and co-editor of the E-L@w Review. He is a member of the Advisory Boards of Edinburgh University's SCRIPT and the Joseph Bell Centre for Forensic Statistics and Legal Reasoning.

Extract

This is a revised version of a paper given by John Sibbald at Glasgow University Library on 19 august 2002 at the inaugural meeting of the International Federation of Library Associations' (IFLA) Law Libraries Discussion Group held in conjuction with the 68th IFLA General Conference 18–24 August. The Paper argues the case for Scotland, as a distinct jurisdiction within the UK, having its own seperate, identifiable, and official gateway to legal information.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © The British and Irish Association of Law Librarians 2003

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