Legal information: the long path and the way home

In this article, I will be taking a look at the principles which should be made the foundation of legal information on statutes and its skilled use in the digital environment of the modern constitutional state. The issue goes beyond stating the obvious - that every digital lawyer in this day and age is capable of retrieving legal information in digital form from a digital datastore. There is another dimension too: we must have the expertise required to assess matters in terms of the information processes involved and the path the information will travel in the course of those processes.