Company Law Forum

Aimed primarily at those in practice, Company Law Forum also includes information of interest to law students. It's run by LexisNexis Butterworths so includes plugs for their products, and some content (notably the Webinars) is charged for. However, if you can live with this, the site is an effective way to find out more on recent changes and developments.
Sections of note include:
News - the main feature is a blog, which is updated regularly.
Cases - as you might expect, includes summaries of recently reported cases.
Opinion - registered users can post questions and other users then respond with comments / helpful advice.
Forum - houses discussion boards on a variety of topics, such as corporate governance and directors' duties.
To participate in the forum and add comments to blog postings you need to register, but there is plenty of information available for those who just want to browse the site.

Ten Year Anniversary of the Civil Procedure Rules

Sunday 26th April marked the 10 year anniversary of the introduction of the Civil Procedure Rules. It was intended that they would change the way litigation was conducted, addressing issues such as cost, complexity and delay.

To mark the occasion LexisNexis hosted a debate, chaired by Lord Neuberger on:
'Have the CPR been effective in addressing those ills and bringing about Lord Woolf’s stated aim of increasing access to justice?'

Other panellists were:
Sir Anthony Clarke, Master of the Rolls
Simon Davis – Clifford Chance
District Judge Michael Walker
Professor Michael Zander QC – London School of Economics

It is possible to listen to excerpts and highlights or the whole debate (registration needed).

LexisNexis Butterworths name change

From tomorrow, Saturday 25th April, LexisNexis Butterworths will be changing its name to Lexis Library.
This won't have any impact on the actual product but I thought that I'd flag it up.
I'll be changing library web site references to LNB to reflect this name change as soon as I get a chance!

LexisNexis Butterworths user guide

I've just updated the user guide to LexisNexis Butterworths to reflect the changes made to the database a couple of months ago. The print version is currently in production, but the guide is available as a PDF file on the library web site.