JustCite (Legal Reference and Citator Service)

Name of Product/Service JustCite (Legal Reference and Citator Service)
Company Name Justis Publishing Limited
Company Location London, United Kingdom
Company Website http://www.justispublishing.com/
Product/Service Website http://www.justcite.com/default.aspx
Status Commercial Service
Launch Date January 2002
PSI Sector Law and Regulation
Main Source of PSI Re-used

JustCite is a legal reference search engine and citator service that provides a fully cross-referenced index to an extensive collection of authoritative UK and European information. It indexes and links to content from a range of publishers including BAILII, Casetrack, Informa Law, Justis, LexisNexis, Westlaw and CELEX, the official legal database of the European Union and shows how they relate to each other.

The service provides access to:

  • over 1.6 million legal documents
  • over 450,000 cases
  • 56 key legal journal series
  • coverage from 70 different case law series
  • Multi-jurisdictional with legal information from England & Wales, Scotland, Ireland, European Union, Australia and Singapore.

Covering:

Case Law

  • UK Primary Case Law
  • UK Specialist Case Law
  • EU Case Law
  • Irish Case Law
  • Scottish Case Law
  • Commonwealth Case Law
  • International Case Law

Legislation

  • UK Acts
  • UK SIs
  • UK Bills
  • Civil Procedure Rules

Materials date from 1950 to date and include official EU documents including:

  • legislation,
  • treaties,
  • proposals
  • conventions.

Indexed Journals, Articles & Support Material

JustCite indexes can be used to find supplementary sources in instances where topics are not fully explored or explained in the more formal documents. These are also that are also indexed and cross-referenced.

Value Added to PSI

The services provided by JustCite include:

Legal citation search engine

Peerless reference recognition technology searches an ever-growing index of 430,000 authoritative cases from 1.7 million documents going back to 1163.

Snapshot of the value of law

Information screens on JustCite are set out to indicate the value of precedent for each case, and guide users to the relevant record or to cases and legislation cited, as well as subsequent cases that can be investigated to give a full picture.

Links to full-text legal resources

Each citation provides a drop-down list showing the various electronic resources that hold the full text. Customisation facilities are available and vary with subscriptions level.

A reference source for offline research

For users with limited subscription JustCite can be used to find references for documents so that they can visit a library with a full list of relevant cases to photocopy.

In additional the service also provides a suite of tools to help search and link from external media to information on JustCite.

Description of the Business and Role of PSI

Justis Publishing Ltd (formerly Context Publishing Ltd) is an independent publisher of electronic legal information, concentrating in particular on United Kingdom and European Union legal, official and business information, with over 20 years of experience working with legal and information professionals.

Justis Publishing’s customers are from legal and financial professions, government and the academic community worldwide.

The company has and has been publishing titles online and on CD-ROM since 1986, In October 2006, the latest edition of the Justis service was launched online.