Joshua Rozenberg, in his article on the National Archives searching for volunteers to update the online statute book thought law librarians would be clamouring to volunteer. What we certainly would do is clamour to correct his statement that ‘legislation.gov.uk is a comprehensive website of primary and secondary legislation to 1267’.

It is not, by a long shot.

It is only comprehensive for about the last three decades, which is not much when we still have legislation in force from over a millennium and a half ago.

Emma Harris, assistant librarian, Law Society Library, Esher, Surrey