Internet Newsletter for Lawyers
July/August 2005, by Delia Venables

The stated objective of The Incorporated Council of Law Reporting's (ICLR) founding fathers was to ensure significant court cases achieved accurate “publication, in a convenient form”. With this year marking 140 years of reporting excellence for the ICLR, it has used this celebratory year to take another significant step in its mission to make court reports more accessible. In the Council's determination to harness the best that web-based databases can offer, the ICLR, together with Justis Publishing Limited (formerly Context) have agreed to publish the entire series of prestigious Weekly Law Reports and Industrial Cases Reports on Sweet & Maxwell’s Westlaw UK service, www.westlaw.co.uk.

This is in addition to The Law Reports, which are already available on Westlaw UK, and will add over 23,000 law reports to the service. This will make life a lot easier for legal practitioners and users of the service with all of the ICLR’s law reports being available in one place and subject to Westlaw UK’s powerful search engine. For users of Westlaw UK, the licencing deal offers significant benefits - combining these reports with Sweet & Maxwell’s own highly regarded series of 130,000 law reports and transcripts will now provide users with seamless access to the full breadth of information on Westlaw UK. Users will no longer have to jump from one site to another so the time taken to research all of the most authoritative law reports will be slashed.

Along with The Law Reports, The Weekly Law Reports sit at the very top of the judicial hierarchy of law report citation. Such is the Weekly Law Reports’ prestige that they are sold in over 100 countries, with local editions published in countries such as India, China, Bangladesh and Pakistan. Combining the Weekly Law Reports with Westlaw UK technology should keep them ahead of the pack for another 140 years.

The Weekly Law Reports and Industrial Case Reports are available now on Westlaw UK - www.westlaw.co.uk.

Katy Adelson is Marketing Manager, Sweet & Maxwell - Legal Online.
Email katy.adelson@thomson.com.

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