Why develop GilesFiles?
We realised that lots of people were experiencing the same problems:
- Searching for resources did not produce meaningful results. For example, a search for “privacy” returned hundreds of judgments in the search results in no particular order. There is no way of telling which is the most important judgment or which case is a binding authority. The manner in which the search results were returned rendered them virtually useless.
- Information overload – it is impossible for everyone to keep up-to-date.
- Ignorance of all the judgments and awards on a subject lead to judgments being used as precedent when they had in fact been overturned by a higher court.
- It was almost impossible or took a very long time to find all relevant work law resources on a particular subject.
- Many valuable hours were spent searching through resources only to find that they were not relevant or had been overtaken by another resource. For example, have you ever studied a judgment for hours only to find that a higher court has overruled it.
- It was very difficult to find all relevant journal articles on a subject. The articles are spread over multiple publications and it is very costly to subscribe to all of them. Even if one does subscribe to all of them, it was virtually impossible to research each one to find all relevant articles.
GilesFiles was developed to solve these problems.
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