Wednesday 11 January 2012

ICLR Online - a new way to search The Law Reports

Today I learnt that the Incorporated Council of Law Reporting in England and Wales (ICLR) has launched a new online service called ICLR Online. It provides online access to The Law Reports (the official series) and Weekly Law Reports, as well as other series published by ICLR. In total 77,00 full text reports are available, dating back to 1865.

The online demo (accessible via the ICLR website) highlights the fact the service is "designed by practitioners for practitioners". ICLR claims to have simple search functionality and accurate, relevant results. It says "no other service supplies information in such a concise and carefully considered way." That sounds good. As does the fact you can download court-ready PDFs of the reports. Whether or not it will be a viable alternative to either Lexis Library or Westlaw UK is hard to judge from the online demo. Free trials are available.

ICLR Online:
http://iclr.co.uk/iclr-online

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