Hallmark contents
The area's covered by The Hallmark Directory are:
The legal profession:
barristers, chambers, solicitors firms, judges, legal aid franchises, ILEX, IBC, legal resources, law schools, journals, publishers etc. and advocates and stables, solicitors firms, in Scotland, barristers and solicitors in Northern Ireland, solicitors and advocates in the Isle of Man, Channel Islands & Gibraltar
Courts & Tribunals:
The most complete and up-to-date list of Courts in the UK
The criminal justice system:
police, prisons, probation, youth justice
Expert witnesses & professional associations:
including forensic experts, witness agencies, laboratories, many different areas of expertise
Government:
ministries, parliaments and assemblies, MPs, ministers departmental offices, executive agencies, Embassies
Local Authorities of the UK:
with details including Gibraltar, Channel Islands & Isle of Man, with details of departments
Other official organisations:
Commissions, Ombudsmen, Registries, NHS authorities and trusts, hospitals, Utilities, Regulators, international bodies, Trade Unions, property, commercial & business practice, universities and law schools
Litigation practice:
Advice agencies, charities and referral bodies
Business Information:
Resources, DTi, business lists, banks building societies, insurance web information
Tables:
including court fees, costs, legal aid rates, tax rates, interest rates, welfare benefits, calendars - legal & standard
Emergency numbers :
The Panic Button that helps, say, to get a case listed on Boxing day only one click away, who to contact if a child has been abducted
Websites for lawyers:
The most extensive list of useful legal sites - on or offline
The "extras":
All sorts of useful items, including gazetteers, maps, glossaries, unique specialist dictionaries, world time zones, telephone dialling codes, calculators, postal rates, travel info, conversion tables, tech support websites
You can find a barrister by looking up their surname, by name of chambers or by name of head of chambers. To find a solicitor's firm, look in the index of the names, or of towns, counties or by legal aid franchise. Then you can print a map to show you, or your client, how to get there.
The same convenient choices work in all categories, and if you are unsure which category to look in there is an index search feature included in the software.
As to finding information in it, it is as easy as you could want it without losing its qualities of depth, breadth and quality of research in it. You can get the information in any one of several ways - there are no special rules to follow.
It is also designed to help you look "across" to connected relevant subjects, so that you do not have keep going back and restarting searches.
Despite the huge range of material, you can reach virtually any page in less than 6 clicks of your mouse. It has -42,000 subject items or pages, 242,275 jumps or links between them, over 900 main index entries, nearly 13,000 + firms of solicitors, 400 chambers of barristers*