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Exclusive deal with new European case law provider

Following a round of extensive discussions, Justis Publishing has negotiated exclusive UK and Ireland distribution rights to material from European case law provider Caselex.

Translating them into English, the new Luxembourg-based company offers for the first time comprehensive summaries of judgments from national supreme courts for all cases relating to EU legal issues.

Covering company, competition, intellectual property, labour, and consumer protection Law – and more – Caselex’s fully searchable, highly efficient online database includes reports from most member states as well as EFTA countries such as Norway and Iceland.

As EU law becomes ever more important, the deal recognizes and caters for the practitioner’s increasing need to find cases dealing with key EU legal issues, particularly if there is no domestic precedent on which to base a case.

Commenting on the important partnership, Justis Publishing Managing Director Masoud Gerami said: “I am delighted; it is a great product. The industry has been waiting for it for a long time and it has finally arrived”. He added that Caselex had considered a number of rivals but according to his counterpart at Caselex, Stig Marthinsen, “market knowledge and [Justis Publishing’s] technological awareness” were the deciding factors. “We also wanted to work with someone independent, so from all perspectives it was a good match”, he said.

Justis has a rich history of providing similar information, which started 21 years ago with CELEX, a searchable database of EU legal information. The Official Journal C Series (OJC) was subsequently added, along with OJ Daily. Complementing the existing European products, which cover EU law from 1951 onwards, Caselex is available alone or as part of the new Justis EU package, subscribers to the latter of which can enjoy substantial discounts.

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