Carswell (www.carswell.com), Canada’s leading provider of specialized information and electronic research solutions to the legal, tax, finance, accounting and human resources markets, today introduced its latest innovation on WestlaweCARSWELL—Graphical KeyCite. The feature provides legal practitioners with a fast and easy way to comprehend direct case history at a glance.
A picture is worth a thousand words. For legal professionals, the powerful Graphical KeyCite may be worth even more because it literally illustrates the procedural history of case law.
Graphical KeyCite is part of KeyCiteCanada®—Canada’s leading case citator and only statute and rule citator available exclusively on WestlaweCARSWELL. KeyCiteCanada allows a researcher to verify instantly whether a case is good law and find citing references to cases and legislation to support and strengthen a legal argument. It includes the only online statute citator in Canada to feature treatments of tribunal decisions and references in secondary sources. A researcher can limit KeyCite display by date, court and jurisdiction or search within the full text of citing decisions to refine KeyCite results.
Graphical KeyCite takes the revolutionary KeyCiteCanada® to a new plateau by literally painting a picture of a case’s direct history. It links citations to later motions, pleadings and lower-court decisions as the case ascends to higher courts. Graphical KeyCite helps researchers to instantly see how a case moved through the court system over time, and to quickly understand the impact at each level.
“For the first time, the history of a court case is illustrated, helping researchers understand the impact more quickly and more easily,” said Lee Horigan, Vice President, eBusiness.
Horigan added that KeyCiteCanada® combines analysis from legal editors at Carswell with WestlaweCARSWELL technology to illuminate issues such as how much the citing case discusses the cited case. "The same lawyer-editors who author Carswell’s extensive collection of authoritative case law headnotes also assign the KeyCiteCanada® flags and symbols lawyers and the judiciary rely on to see whether citations are still good law," noted Horigan.
Documents on WestlaweCARSWELL include more links to related sources than on any other legal research service. Graphical KeyCite leverages those links and uses proprietary technologies to illustrate the connections between court documents as they move through the judicial system. Additionally, researchers can simply click icons to open the full-text documents on WestlaweCARSWELL.
“In tests, researchers using Graphical KeyCite understood the direct history of cases faster and more accurately,” said Lee Horigan, “For anyone performing citation research, a Graphical KeyCite picture is definitely worth a thousand words.”
About Carswell
Carswell (www.carswell.com) is Canada's leading provider of specialized information and electronic research solutions to the legal, tax, finance, accounting and human resources markets. Headquartered in Toronto, ON, Carswell provides integrated information in a range of formats, including books, loose-leaf services, journals, newsletters, CD-ROMS and online. Carswell is a business within The Thomson Corporation.
About The Thomson Corporation
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Thomson provides value-added information, software tools and applications to more than
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reference information, corporate e-learning and assessment, scientific research and healthcare.
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and provides services in approximately 130 countries. The Corporation's common shares are
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Jayne Jackson
Media Relations
Carswell
416.298.5007
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