What’s A Website? UK Judge Asks
Outlaw reports on a story about a British judge who stopped a trial this week to ask what a website was. The case is a trial of three men accused of inciting terrorism which could involve evidence about their use of the internet.
Judge Peter Openshaw had to halt questioning to ask for clarification of some common terms:
“The trouble is I don’t understand the language. I don’t really understand what a website is, I haven’t quite grasped the concepts.”
We had a court case back in 2002, which ended in a similar farce, where the judge didn’t understand the concept of the web and his lack of knowledge cost us a lot of time and a lot of money going backwards and forwards.
I appreciate that technology moves quickly but with more and more legal cases bound to be based around the web, surely it is about time they got people in who knew this stuff so small businesses (especially) don’t end up spending lots of time and resources which could cost them their livelihoods?
Comment by Respiro the logo design guy May 19, 2007 @ 5:23 pm
Yes, in 2007 we should know what a web site is… I would suggest to that judge to give a search one wikipedia.org - the problem is that this would mean to search for “web site” on a… web site.