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Garden Law

Website of Garden Law written by Richard Smithies who is a partner with Bearders Solicitors in West Yorkshire. The site provides guidance to the law relating to gardens. There are sections covering trees, roots, walls, boundaries, bonfires and garden burial. Each section provides guidance to the law and links to judgements and legislation. There is also a discussion forum on garden law, a page of links and recommended books. A search facility using Google is embedded in the site.

Boundary Problems Web Site

Website maintained by chartered surveyor Jon Maynard FRICS, who specialises in boundary disputes between property owners. Provides free guidance on the law relating to boundaries, rights of way and problems with neighbours. Advice given on the site includes suggestions on where you can go for help with solving boundary disputes, what the costs are likely to be, and how to avoid problems arising in the first place. The site includes a news section, a glossary of terms and links to other websites.

Weblaw

Weblaw is the website of the technology law department at London-based law firm, Simons Muirhead & Burton LLP. Describes the range of services offered and provides articles, news, blogs and videos on legal tech, internet, data protection and e-commerce topics.

Pinsent Masons

Website of international law firm, Pinsent Masons. The site provides information regarding the firm's practice areas which include energy and utilities, financial services and insurance, government, infrastructure and construction services, manufacturing and engineering, real estate, services and technology. Within each area there are in-house news and bulletins made freely available on the site in PDF format. The site gives staff profiles and details of events and training courses offered by the firm.

Law Society of Scotland Directory of Expert Witnesses

The Directory of Expert Witnesses is an annual publication published jointly by the Law Society of Scotland and W.Green. The directory contains details of expert witnesses based in Scotland or experts based elsewhere in the United Kingdom who cover Scotland. The directory can be freely searched online by name or keyword. There is also a more detailed 'structured search' option which allows you to specify an area of expertise which can be refined to a more specific subject area and then narrowed further by experience, occupation and location.

Charity Law Association

Website of the Charity Law Association, a membership organisation set up in the United Kingdom in 1992 to facilitate communication and the exchange of ideas among lawyers and others interested in charity law. The site publishes some of the Association's briefing papers, responses and comments. Updates to UK charity law are also available. The site includes information on how to join, and the names and addresses of other useful contacts in the charity sector.

Association of Personal Injury Lawyers

The Association of Personal Injury Lawyers (APIL) is a UK-based organisation for lawyers and law students. Its website provides information for members of the public who have suffered an injury, including a directory of personal injury lawyers, and details of specialist training for the legal profession. It also includes APIL responses to government consultations, information about its campaigns and news. Parts of the site are restricted to APIL members only.

Chancery Bar Association

Association for barristers who specialise in business, financial and property law and practise primarily in the Chancery Division of the English High Court. Its website includes a directory of Chancery barristers, information about careers at the Chancery bar, news, and videos for schoolchildren explaining different aspects of Chancery work. There is also a members-only section of the website.
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