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Access All Areas: Breaking Down the Barriers to Legal Information

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2025

Abstract

The decisions of courts and tribunals, and the statutes that societies live under, are the building blocks to the rule of law. Access to this information for legal professionals can be difficult while access for the general public is often impossible. This article by Gavin Sheridan, the co-founder and CEO at Vizlegal, considers a first principles approach to the barriers to access, how the legal industry has adapted, how technology companies can address and improve it and how the future of legal information involves open access, open standards and innovation built on top of legal data.

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Copyright © The Author(s), 2025. Published by British and Irish Association of Law Librarians

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1 Storyful.com <https://storyful.com/>

3 National Asset Management Agency -v- Commissioner for Environmental Information [2015] IESC 51

4 Know Your Customers’ “Jobs to Be Done” <https://hbr.org/2016/09/know-your-customers-jobs-to-be-done>

5 Vizlegal <www.vizlegal.com/>

6 The Mom Test <www.momtestbook.com/>

10 Legislation.gov.uk <www.legislation.gov.uk/>