Finding UK Expert Witness
web sites
It is a regrettable (though
rarely mentioned) fact of Internet life that the vast majority of
web sites receive only a very small number of 'hits' - and, consequently,
seldom repay the time, money and effort which is invested in setting
them up and maintaining them.
Why? Because only a handful
of potential clients are aware of the existence of the web site. In
a field as specialised and fragmented as the UK expert witness field,
the Internet search engines are too blunt a tool to be of anything
more than nominal assistance in locating relevant web sites, particular
where the identity of a suitable expert witness in a particular field
and/or geographical area is not yet known.
The 'Online Directory'
has been designed to fill the role of a specialist UK expert witness
search engine. One of the company's main objectives in developing
the directory has been to provide a facility which will assist 'highly
prospective' users of the directory to locate the web sites of individuals
and organisations which offer the service which they are seeking.
We achieve this objective in two ways :-
(1) the 'expert links'
sub-section of this site contains the largest collection of links
to UK expert witness sites in existence, either in print or on the
web (currently containing over 1,300 links),
(2) the lists of experts
which are returned by the search page of the directory 'flag' links
to experts' own sites. The practical significance of this is that
it is not necessary for an enquirer to spend an inordinate amount
of time wading through a large number of directory entries to ascertain
which experts within a particular field of expertise display their
own web site, or have a page within a 'corporate' site. Those sites
can be identified at a glance - and the enquirer can proceed to browse
relevant web sites and to obtain more detailed information from them
than can be included in a directory entry. No other resource in this
field has attempted to address this need.