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 announced that it has signed an agreement with the Ministry of the Attorney General of Ontario to provide access to CriminalSource to key prosecutorial staff across the province.
Since July 2005, the following provincial prosecution groups have adopted CriminalSource for its unique content and functionality: Saskatchewan (all prosecutors), Alberta (all prosecutors), Manitoba (all prosecutors), Newfoundland (all prosecutors), Ontario (selected prosecutors). Quebec has provided access to all provincial prosecutors for three years now and Nova Scotia and New Brunswick have been using CriminalSource for over two years.
“CriminalSource has proven itself to be a key online legal research tool in the government sector,” said Bob Freeman, V.P. Strategic Market Groups/Publishing. “The provincial agreements are solidifying the service’s leading position in the marketplace. It is a one-stop solution.”
CriminalSource stands out due to its exclusive content and powerful functionality – all just a mouse-click away. Exclusive and key content available online includes Criminal Case Digests and legislative histories from Crankshaw’s Criminal Code of Canada, Tremeear’s Annotated Criminal Code and Tremeear’s Annotated Related Criminal Statutes, Watt’s Manual of Evidence, Segal’s Disclosure and Production in Criminal Cases, Gibson’s Criminal Law Evidence, Practice and Procedure, case digests in Nadin-Davis’ Canadian Sentencing Digest, as well as Justice David Watt’s biweekly Criminal Law and Evidence Newsletter. “CriminalSource truly allows you to Work The Way You Think. The user experience, the ease-of-use and the results are unparalleled.” said Bob Freeman.
CriminalSource provides great efficiencies in the daily lives of government prosecutors. Its ease-of-use allows lawyers to achieve better research results right from their desktops reducing the dependence on paralegals and designated researchers. It detangles the increased complexity of cases with KeyCiteCanada— Canada’s leading case citator and Canada’s only statute and rule citator. CriminalSource provides users with links to related information of a specific case or section of a statute with a much higher degree of precision than any other service ... and CriminalSource aids in the consistency and quality of work performed by government prosecutors across the country.
CriminalSource is a part of WestlaweCARSWELL’s evolving suite of online legal research services including LawSource, IPSource, FamilySource, InsolvencySource, and SecuritiesSource. The Source products can be used together or separately providing a complete research solution.
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
The Thomson Corporation (http://www.thomson.com), with 2005 revenues of $8.70 billion, is a global leader in providing integrated information solutions to business and professional customers. Thomson provides value-added information, software tools and applications to more than 20 million users in the fields of law, tax, accounting, financial services, higher education, reference information, corporate e-learning and assessment, scientific research and healthcare. With operational headquarters in
Stamford, Conn., Thomson has approximately 40,000 employees and provides services in approximately 130 countries. The Corporation's common shares are listed on the New York and Toronto stock exchanges (NYSE: TOC; TSX: TOC).
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Jayne Jackson
Media Relations
Carswell
416.298.5007
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