ICLR announces launch of online service

This new service will allow practitioners access to the core, authoritative law reporting service which includes The Law Reports, The Weekly Law Reports, The Industrial Cases Reports, The Business Law Reports and The Public and Third Sector Law Reports.  It also includes ICLR’s unique Consolidated Index, which is an integral part of the service for each set of reports online. This will be the first time that this unique and valuable resource has been available online in its entirety.

His Honour Judge Nicholas Chambers QC, Chairman of the ICLR, commented “This is an exciting development for the ICLR. We are the most authoritative source of law reports and have been since 1865 when we were established by practitioners to provide a consolidated service in a convenient form and at a moderate price.  We are a charitable and independent organisation for the legal profession who require, in this world where speed of access to material is critical, a direct source for core content online to access authentic precedents and related cases. We are responding to demand from the profession by creating this new service.”

The service will be launched by the Lord Chief Justice at an event on 18^th October 2011, in the Great Hall at Middle Temple. Subscriptions to the new service will be available directly from the ICLR (www.iclr.co.uk )from 18 October 2011 and subscribers can register their interest for a free trial on the website now.  Following the introduction of the new service, the ICLR will no longer license online material to Justis in the UK from 31 December 2011, but Justis will continue to honour all current Justis subscriptions until they expire in 2012. Subscribers will still be able to access some of the ICLR’s reports via Westlaw and Lexis Nexis.