In the last ebulletin before their launch, we should remind you of the frenetic activity surrounding the International Law Reports Online.

Over 50 volumes – that’s over 1,300 reports going as far back as 1958 – have been uploaded, making this section of the Justis library ripe for the testing.

“So far they’ve been very well received”, said our international sales manager Simon Watson, who is keen to encourage trials to demonstrate the world-class functionality of the Reports, ahead of their full-scale launch in November.

Arrange your trial by emailing sales@justis.com.


Making the news elsewhere
10th September

Our writers have been commissioned to compose a number of articles for leading third-party journals. If you subscribe, look out for them; or if you don't, don't worry, we'll link to the online versions in due course. Though we say it ourselves, they're quite interesting and focus on far more than our services ad opinions alone, taking in, as they do, the views of noted and celebrated experts.

Future pieces include:

“Olde country, newe technology” for the Australian Law Librarian, which considers the importance of English case law for Australian practitioners;

“Legal globalization: investigating the effects of an ‘inexorable phenomenon’” for The Barrister, which asks whether law is being globalized and – with some unexpected answers – which practice areas it is most affecting; and

“Brief encounter”, our next installment for the Student Law Review, in which we interview a young barrister on the up at a prestigious criminal set.


Call for expansion of JustCite ideas
10th September 2008

Unbounded by jurisdiction or information provider, JustCite’s expansion is unstoppable. But new links on the service are added extremely judiciously, with great consideration given to how useful their inclusion will be to practitioners and researchers.

To aid this process we’d be glad to read your suggestions for future additions to the service, whether specific or generic. Please email your ideas to communications@justis.com.

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Hints & Tips
Regnal years v calendar years
10th September 2008

What are regnal years and how do they translate to calendar years?

Before 1963, Acts of Parliament were numbered using the year of the sovereign's reign in which the Act was passed, a system known as regnal years. Under this system, an Act passed early in a parliamentary session has a citation such as 5 Edw. 7, c. 9, for the ninth chapter in the session that started in the fifth year of King Edward VII's reign.

But it gets trickier than this, so to help you translate regnal years to calendar years we've added two pages on the subject to our growing FAQ pages for Justis and JustCite, which can be read by clicking here and here.

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Titles Talk
JustCite to index Australian journals from RMIT Publishing
10th September 2008

We have struck a deal for JustCite to index journals from Australian publisher RMIT Publishing.

With titles including Law in Context, Federal Law Review, Australian Journal of Forensic Sciences and High Court Quarterly Review, over 30 journals in all will be indexed. With the first batch of records already in place, many will be cross-referenced with the 25,000 Australian Commonwealth Cases JustCite started indexing last year.

Although JustCite already links to many records that concern foreign jurisdictions this deal “represents the first set of journals from an overseas publisher”, said Justis Publishing’s projects director Bernadette Jansen op de Haar. “And we don’t intend to stop here”, she added.

RMIT Publishing delivers the vast majority of Australasian scholarly research, according to its publishing manager, Kevin Ormsby. He added: “We are constantly seeking new partners who can assist in taking our content to the broadest possible audience. The partnership with Justis Publishing also realizes our goal of taking relevant scholarly content from the Asia-Pacific region to the wider legal, government, professional and academic world.”


Aspinall's Maritime Cases
10th September 2008

We can announce that we will be adding the complete 19-volume set of case reports from Aspinall’s Maritime Cases to Justis later this year. Covering the years 1870 to 1940, these reports include full-text cases from numerous courts outside the UK and Ireland, alongside many domestic cases, and will be a boon to researchers of international, maritime, and general trade and commercial law.

Further details will follow.


Caselex now indexed on JustCite
10th September 2008

Following earlier news of its expansion and of our plans to index the service, we can confirm that Caselex, the EU law-related precedent-finding database, is now fully indexed on JustCite.

Increasing the value of both services, this move sees a gradual rise in subscriptions as users are starting to appreciate how each product complements the other.

Trials can be set up through the usual channels. Email sales@justis.com.

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Events
Various new conferences
10th September 2008

The conference season – for us at least – is still in full swing. Between now and our next ebulletin, we will be at the following meetings:

The annual conference of the Society of Legal Scholars (SLS) in London from 15th to 18th September;

The annual conference of the Australian Law Librarians' Association (ALLA) in Perth from 17th to 19th September;

The annual conference of the International Bar Association (IBA) in Buenos Aires from 12th to 17th October; and

The Bar Conference in London on 1st November

We hope to see at any you can make where we will, as ever, be happy to demonstrate any part of our extensive portfolio of services. And remember, there’s a chance at each to win a coveted Barrister Bear.

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