Pioneering electronic government textbook sets the standard
22 January 2004
The first legal textbook on electronic government was launched
yesterday by City law firm Field Fisher Waterhouse.
E-Government: A Practical Guide to the Legal Issues (published
by Sweet & Maxwell), which was two years in the making, aims to
provide central government and local authority lawyers with a
comprehensive and up-to-date guide to all the key issues, such as;
electronic voting, implementation of e-government at a local level,
data protection and intellectual property rights.
Authored by head of Information Communications and Technology
Group partner Michael Chissick and senior ICT solicitor Justin
Harrington, the book should prove to be a very useful tool given
the Government’s goal to be fully online by 2005.
Michael says:
“Many of the large technology projects taking place at the moment
are in the public sector. It is a major source of work for
our ICT Group, especially advising central Government
departments. The investment in producing this book shows our
commitment to the public sector technology market and the firm’s
commitment to Government work generally. We are the only firm of
solicitors to be appointed to both the Treasury Solicitor
Commercial Panel and to the OGC buying solutions’ L-CAT panel for
all categories of work.”
Justin says:
“The Government’s modernising agenda, underpinned by technology, is
an exciting event in the world of technology - the vision of
electronic government could revolutionise the way government and
local authorities provide information and services to their
citizens. Accordingly, we hope that the world’s first ever legal
textbook on this subject helps to clarify peoples’ understanding of
this emerging area.”
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Ben Girdlestone, Communications Manager on 020 7861 4968
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