It's a reasonable source for legal information in the US, or at least I've found it so. Of course, chaining your alligator to Carfax Tower would thus be beyond its scope, which means that you're not likely to find it useful. But there's a lot of solicitor's sites out there with 'fact sheets' that are quite nice.
In essence, though, if you could definitively find the legal position on a contentious issue simply and easily through the net, a lot of lawyers would be unnecessary. Indeed, this might be why constructing net-based legal advice systems is of such interest to me. :)
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About as useful as tits on a bull, but...
Date: 2003-05-15 05:25 pm (UTC)It's a reasonable source for legal information in the US, or at least I've found it so. Of course, chaining your alligator to Carfax Tower would thus be beyond its scope, which means that you're not likely to find it useful. But there's a lot of solicitor's sites out there with 'fact sheets' that are quite nice.
In essence, though, if you could definitively find the legal position on a contentious issue simply and easily through the net, a lot of lawyers would be unnecessary. Indeed, this might be why constructing net-based legal advice systems is of such interest to me. :)