Legal Research Services On-line -
Casetrack from Merrill Legal Solutions
Merrill Legal Solutions, registered as WordWave International Ltd, are the Official Reporters to the Courts
of Appeal and the exclusive providers of the award winning real-time transcription software, LiveNote outside
of North America.
This is a tracking, research and full text retrieval system for all Court
of Appeal, High Court and EAT cases. Casetrack is the only comprehensive
source of all new judgments from these courts.
(Take the About option from the Casetrack home page for more details).
The Casetrack service provides Internet access to Court of Appeal judgments
from 1996 onwards and High Court judgments from 1998 onwards. Case records
contain key details about cases plus the full text of each judgment. The
transcript can be read/printed on screen or detached and incorporated
within a users own archive or know-how system.
Features include:
Instant access to new judgments as soon as they have been approved. As the
Official Reporters to the Courts of Appeal and Crown Office and the
transcriber in the majority of ex tempore High Court cases Smith Bernal are
uniquely placed to ensure the fastest access to new judgments. The record
is 26 minutes for attachment of a handed down approved case.
All handed down approved judgments from the Court of Appeal and Crown
Office are available within 24 hours of judgment being given.
Links to the Daily Law Notes for all cases which will in due course be
reported in the Official Law Reports.
Searchable list of House of Lords and Privy Council judgments online with
digests and links to the House of Lords and Privy Council websites.
Searchable links to the Scottish Courts website, updated daily.
Northern Irish judgemnts from March 2001 onwards.
Searching by core fields as well as subject search and full text
capabilities. All judgments are indexed according to a range of search
parameters ensuring that users can find cases regardless of how much or how
little information they have. Full text searching allows research using key
facts, principles or precedent (case or statute).
Tracking - status of judgments from listing to approval. Skeleton cases are
created as soon as a case is listed for judgment. New details are added to
the case record based on each day's activity in the courts allowing you to
see whether the judgment has been given, reserved or part heard and whether
the judgment is available or in draft.
Case summaries - for key cases . The short precis allows the user to decide
whether a case is relevant to them.
Alerter - a weekly paper or e-mail bulletin summarising key cases recently
approved. The Alerter can be circulated to all members of a firm or
chambers and can be incorporated within a firm's own internal information
systems and bulletins.
Case Detective offers assistance in locating cases - "if you can't find
it...we will!" Contact us by telephone, fax or e-mail and we help identify
the case you're looking for - then you can download it directly from the
service. Or if you're waiting for a case to be approved or for judgment to
be given we'll monitor progress and let you know as soon as it's available.
There are subscriptions available to suit all
sectors of the market - by individual or firm, unlimited access or by subject.
Although Casetrack is normally a subscription service, it is available free
to academic institutions, charities and welfare organisations.
Legal Research Services On-line -