The most fundamental and useful feature of Internet technology is the ability to 'link' a web page to related pages on far-distant computers - 'stepping stones across the web'.

The 'Online Directory' is the only UK expert witness resource to exploit this aspect of the medium - and ExpertSearch Ltd has invested considerable resources in extensively linking the 'Online Directory' entries to other related web pages.

The logic underlying this strategy is that, in the context of UK expert witness practice, we believe that a directory entry which not only contains extensive information about an individual, but which also links the viewer to the individual's corresponding entries in the other leading UK expert witness web sites, compounds the value of the entry - making the 'Online Directory' the lawyer's preferred first port of call when seeking to locate an expert witness.

Where applicable, both the individual 'Online Directory' entries and also the results lists returned by the 'Search' page of the directory, link to :-

(a) the expert's own web site,

(b) his entry in the current edition of 'The Law Society Directory of Expert Witnesses',

(c) ditto, the 'Expert Witness Institute' web site,

(d) ditto, the 'Academy of Experts' web site.

See, for example, the entry of Mr Edward Ross-McNairn, London-based Forensic Accountant :-

www.expertsearch.co.uk/edward.ross-mcnairn

As well as the above links, each entry in the directory can include an unlimited number of links to other relevant web pages (for example, 'Medline' database, 'BUPA Hospitals' entry, press articles, expert witness articles, professional association sites, local sites, etc.) Just give us the web address ('URL') of the web page(s) to which you wish to link your entry and we will set up and display the link(s) for you.

Cost

Our nearest competitor in this field (see our 'compare sites' page) charges its subscribers an additional subscription charge of £125 p.a. + VAT for implementing and displaying a single link in their entries (to their own web site, where applicable).

By comparison, ExpertSearch Ltd we has made a long-term policy decision to encourage the company's subscribers to add links to their entries - although researching and setting up links can be time-consuming (as each link has to be manually implemented) we are pleased to insert and display up to ten links in the 'Online Directory' entries, at no additional charge.

In this way we aim not only to offer better value to our subscribers than can be obtained elsewhere, but also to make both the individual entries and the 'Online Directory' itself more interesting, informative and relevant than similar resources which do not offer this feature. The directory currently contains over 15,000 links, all of which are electronically checked for functionality on the first day of each month - and links which are no longer current are either updated or removed immediately thereafter. Because of this (and unlike many 'directory' sites) the 'Online Directory' never contains more than a handful of 'dead' links.