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News Parliamentary questions answered 9th April 2009 Following the announcement in our last e-bulletin that Parlianet, sister service of Justis and JustCite, would be incorporated into the Justis database, we can offer more details on accessing the service, along with data and technical improvements for existing Parlianet and Justis customers alike. Furthermore, we can confirm that for a trial period, all Justis users will have access to this parliamentary data. An index to the proceedings and publications of the Houses of Parliament, and the Welsh and Northern Ireland Assemblies, Parlianet on Justis - which will be known as Justis Parliament - can be accessed through the new 'Parliament' tab within the 'Search In' area of the search screen or searched via the quick search. As a happy byproduct of incorporating this extensive data, several improvements to the search functionality in the Justis Search In section have been made, including: a presets feature, offering common 'off-the-peg' searches; a new saved search option, which allows users to design and save their own bespoke search forms across the service; and improvements to the database selection layout, which can now be reached through the Advanced search tab. Often underrated for lawyers, searchable access to parliamentary material - such as parliamentary questions and Bills - has become increasingly important since the landmark ruling in Pepper v Hart, which set the precedent for citing the legislative history of ambiguous statutes. The changes to Justis and Justis Parliament are scheduled for official release in the summer but subscribers will be able to view both sooner, as we will be releasing them as a soft launch to run in parallel with the current Justis service. In the meantime click here for more details of the improvements to Justis that will result from its incorporation of Parlianet. Time to tool up 9th April 2009 We have hugely refined our existing range of knowhow management software to address two age-old problems: the routine changing of destinations or formats of links from documents to third-party websites; and the time-consuming process of finding these legal references in your documents and on websites in the first place. By employing JustCite's citation index, our new JustCite Tools range - which currently includes JustCite Link Studio and JustCite Toolbar - represents a scaleable and future-proof index of citations and linkable destinations. JustCite Link Studio is very different from previous incarnations. The software allows individual or batch processing of html, Word, PDF and other document formats to automatically identify citations for any of the document types held on JustCite itself. Once identified, it inserts a link to JustCite that will either take the user to a record for the document on the JustCite website or redirect them seamlessly to the full text of the cited document on a predefined third-party website. So any amendments resulting from future destination changes are made centrally by us on your JustCite account, leaving your documents' links unaffected. The JustCite Toolbar, an add-on for your web browser, instantly scans for recognised references on any web or intranet page. Once identified in the document a side panel opens showing a list of all references found. The user can then select to view information about the cited document and link to the full text of the document on third-party sites. This item is adapted and edited from an article that appears in next month's edition of KIM Legal. Titles talk Bermuda short 9th April 2009 From later this summer Justis will host the Bermuda Law Reports. Previously only available electronically on their own subscription-based website, they will be fully searchable and cross-referenced, benefit from our world-beating results handling and be indexed on JustCite. To be available as court-ready, printable PDFs that replicate the pagination of the originals, the series goes back to 1986 and features a wealth of fascinating, precedent-setting cases. Though this will clearly be welcomed by lawyers and researchers on the common law island itself - the oldest self-governing colony of the UK- the detailed judgments it offers will add to the growing body of ammunition we provide practitioners in the UK, Ireland and beyond. More on this development will follow. JustCite: millionaires' club 9th April 2009 JustCite has passed the half-million mark for case records, bringing its total number of records - including legislation, EU material and journal articles - to well in excess of 1.88 million. Recent additions that have contributed to this hefty increase include an index of six important series of law reports from LS Law (Informa) namely; LS Law Commercial, LS Law Licensing, LS Law Medical (formerly Lloyd's Law Reports: Medical), LS Law Patents, LS Law Product Liability and LS Law Regulatory. Also added is an index of the major Court forms in the articles tab for easy access to these vital documents. Continuing our international expansion of JustCite, we can confirm that the full index of 73,000 cases from Canada Law Book, including Dominion Law Reports, Canadian Criminal Cases and Labour Arbitration Cases, is now in place on the versatile citator. Much closer to home there is also some good news for our Irish customers where JustCite is concerned. The first round of indexing of Irish legislation is complete with all Irish Acts and Statutory Instruments now making an appearance on the citator. The next step is to extend that index down to the individual section level and to start the process of cross-linking to Irish cases and ensure that all the commonly used full-text sources in Ireland are linked to from JustCite. Following that we will start to include information on the amendment trail for Irish legislation with a focus on the last two years' changes initially. But we will work backwards to ultimately include the full chronological table of amendments. But it's not all about quantity; the quality of the records is improving. For example, entries for the fully searchable JustCite Digest - short summaries of UK judgments written exclusively for JustCite - are now complete for 2007 and 2008, and since February have been updated on a weekly basis. You may also not be aware that JustCite has a growing, searchable database of abstracts of the important journal articles from 49 high-profile journal series. Not only that we have recently doubled our editorial team to increase the level of cross-linking and checking of the JustCite index, and add to the content we generate in-house. Watch this space for future announcements on resulting new products and enhancements. Caselex bursting at the seams 9th April 2009 The award-winning Caselex has rapidly grown from a nice-to-have to a must-have database. Since last summer, when we last wrote about it in depth in an e-bulletin, the EU law-related precedent-finding database of member states' national courts has swelled with new content. Cyprus has been added to the now 26-strong list of national jurisdictions covered, cases from the EFTA court and the European Court of Justice are on the rise, and new subject areas have made it into the mix, namely ICT and media law, private international law, and freedom of movement law. Including the freedom of movement of workers, this last subject area - alongside employment law, which is also covered - is particularly pertinent, given last month's wildcat strikes in the northeast of England over foreign worker recruitment, and the dearth of domestic precedents for such cases. But perhaps most importantly, the number of individual, intuitively searchable cases has grown to over 2,700, from around 2,000 little more than six months ago. Considering its material goes back to New Year's Day 2000, this represents a hugely disproportionate increase for the versatile full-text database, which is now also indexed on JustCite. Available through stand-alone subscriptions, Caselex is also discounted as a part of the Justis EU package. Click here for a complete list of jurisdictions and subject areas. Events Let's focus 9th April 2009 In late April or early May we're running our next focus group for librarians in the academic or public sector. The meeting will take place in a central location in London which will be confirmed at a later date. As with all our focus groups, this meeting will give you the chance to chat to us informally about what you like about the services, ideas you might have, improvements and additions that can be made and any ways we can help you or your colleagues use Justis, JustCite and JustCite Tools. It goes without saying that dinner will be on us, so if you have strong views and an empty stomach, please email communications@justis.com. 
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