MEMBER NEWS: THE SEARCH FACILITY ON THIS SITE AND FINDING RELATED MATERIAL

It is now three weeks and a day since this site took up the membership subscription model. It has been an interesting time. Not least it has enabled me to fully appreciate the full range of the site’s readership , including  firms of solicitors  of all sizes and specialisms,  individual barristers and  a large number of chambers. There are sole practitioners, many in the voluntary sector and the site also has a large number of readers from abroad.   The  unforeseen consequence of this is that there are also  many new readers.  For their benefit (and perhaps for the benefit of those who have used the site for some time)  I highlight some of the  search facilities on the site.

THE SEARCH FACILITY ON THE SITE

I mention this because someone once commented that there is no search facility, when there is. On the desktop version of the site it is on the right hand side and there is a heading in the search box “search this site”. On your phone and tablet it is towards the bottom of the first page, again with the wording “search this site”.

USEFUL LINKS ON EACH POST

Towards the top end of each post, just underneath the title, you will see a number of sub headings (just after “by gexall”.  These give a number of categories. If you press one one of those, say “credibility of experts” you will get these results. 

This provides a quick link to related posts which cover the same subject matter.

THE  “RELATED” LINKS ON THE BOTTOM OF THE PAGE

There is no “artificial intelligence” involved in the preparation of the posts on this site.  However WordPress does have a feature (which was accidentally switched off for the past three weeks but which is now back in place) which attempts to identify  the most closely related posts and gives you the three it thinks are of most direct relevance. These can be found at the bottom of the page under the heading “related”.  As I said this is done by some form of AI. It sometimes has some “interesting” connections, but on the whole it is a very useful facility.

For instance the previous post on issues relating to discontinuance.

Brought up these

SETTING ASIDE NOTICE OF DISCONTINUANCE IN A QOCS CASE: TWO INTERESTING DECISIONSJuly 20, 2015In “Civil Procedure”

QOCS & DISCONTINUANCE: ANOTHER CASE (WHERE THE CLAIMANT WAS SUCCESSFUL)September 1, 2016In “Costs”

YOU’VE STARTED SO YOU’LL FINISH: MASTER SETS ASIDE NOTICE OF DISCONTINUANCE SERVED BY INSURERAugust 12, 2018In “Applications”