I reproduce the text of a major announcement this morning
To: All Canada Law Book Customers
From: Stuart Morrison
Date: September 26, 2007
Re: LexisNexis QuickLaw / Canada Law Book
Canada Law Book’s databases, including the Dominion Law Reports, Canadian Criminal Cases and Labour Arbitration Cases will no longer be available on LexisNexis QuickLaw after the current publishing licence agreement expires on March 31, 2008. To continue to have access to these and the other Canada Law Book databases from April 1, 2008 please register online at www.canadalawbook.ca/databaseregistry.html
Canada Law Book has a long publishing history within the Canadian legal profession and traces its history back to the Upper Canada Law Journal of 1855. Its law reports, including Canadian Criminal Cases (1898) and Dominion Law Reports (1912), reflect the editorial integrity that the profession has relied on. Our early partnership with QuickLaw in the 1970’s allowed for the development of a uniquely Canadian system that met the legal research needs of both lawyers and law librarians. The purchase of QuickLaw by LexisNexis, and the expiry of our existing contract, has forced us to re-evaluate our long-term strategy given our commitment to uphold the editorial integrity of Canadian jurisprudence.
As we look to the future needs of the legal profession in Canada, we feel that Canada Law Book is again uniquely positioned to provide access to both recent decisions of the court with value added classification, head note and summary plus archival records. Our commitment to continuing the high levels of editorial accuracy and excellence is the bench mark for legal publishers and precludes Canada Law Book from allowing its data to be linked to content where we cannot guarantee the accuracy.
The titles noted below, which are currently available through LexisNexis QuickLaw, will ONLY* be available through Canada Law Book effective April 1, 2008:
Law Reports
Canadian Criminal Cases
Canadian Patent Reporter
Dominion Law Reports
Labour Arbitration Cases
Directories
Canadian Law List
Summaries
Alberta Civil and Criminal Cases
All Canada Weekly Summaries
B.C. Civil Cases
B.C. Criminal Cases
B.C. Labour Arbitrations
B.C. Labour Relations Board Decisions
Canadian Labour Arbitration Summaries
Charter of Rights Decisions
Saskatchewan Civil and Criminal Cases
Supreme Court of Canada Decisions
Weekly Criminal Bulletin
*The Canadian Patent Reporter is also available on IPSource
To continue to have access to these and the other Canada Law Book databases from April 1, 2008 please register online [1].
Canada Law Book