Praise for RLC Website
1st December 2009
Renfrewshire Law Centre's website (this one) received its first critical review by Iain Nisbet, writing for the Journal of the Law Society of Scotland in November. Iain, himself a partner at Govan Law Centre, has had a regular column in the Journal, reviewing legal-themed websites for many years.
His review is as follows. We would only point out that the RLC logo was not inspired by the Reid Kerr logo, but in fact initially drawn up before the designer had even seen the Reid Kerr logo.
"Renfrewshire Law Centre is not a new law centre as such, but a renaming or rebranding of the old Paisley Law Centre – where I did most of my traineeship. The new name seems to be designed to reflect more accurately the centre’s geographical reach, and comes with a new logo (which looks rather like that of Reid Kerr College).
Anyway, the website is very well presented for what I understand to be the work of one of their staff, rather than a professional web designer. A lot of the content is given over to information about the centre itself, but there is an impressive level of detail on this front – including full biographical details of all staff and volunteers.
Of more use to the interested visitor would be the “Advice” section, which provides brief but useful guides to the law in a number of areas, from employment to legal aid to child law. This section also includes a section called “XYZ Maginalia”, which includes a section on famous lawyers (fact and fiction). This is almost certainly the only place where you will find Donald Findlay, Tony Blair and Rumpole of the Bailey mentioned in the same breath!
Rounding off the site is a legal news section with intermittent reports and commentary on legal developments of general interest, and a page entitled “Quid Juris?” which invites questions from the general public (or that section of it which speaks Latin, at any rate), to be answered by RLC solicitors. At the time of writing, there were no questions posed or answered, but you can send a question by visiting http://rlclaw.co.uk/contact/ .