Particularly for the benefit of those members of the RDG who are writing their BCL exam in restitution on Monday morning, I would say that I have spoken today (3 July) to the Judicial Office at the House of Lords and have been advised that the speeches have not been released and will NOT be released next week either.

The HL web site at

‹http://www.parliament.the- stationery-office.co.uk/ pa/ ld199697/ldjudgmt/ ldjudgmt.htm›

claims to put judgments on line within two hours of release. All of the cases released since this service began (Nov 96) are listed in alphabetical order, which makes it difficult (and increasingly difficult as time goes on) to see what has been newly added, especially if you are not looking for a particular case whose name you know. I today suggested to the webmaster ‹webmaster@parliament.uk› that a reorganization might be appropriate (perhaps grouping cases by month and/or year of release, but especially having a "new judgments" section) and I suspect that if others made the same point, then some improvement would be more likely to be made.

Lionel