JustCite is a web-based legal search engine and citator from Justis Publishing Ltd. Focusing on case law

Case law

In law, case law is the set of reported judicial decisions of selected appellate courts and other courts of first instance which make new interpretations of the law and, therefore, can be cited as precedents in a process known as stare decisis...

 and legislation

Legislation

Legislation is law which has been promulgated by a legislature or other governing body, or the process of making it...

, it is a provider-neutral service that links to content from a range of publishers and includes extensive links to full-text material from online services such as BAILII, Casetrack, Informa Law, Justis, LexisNexis

LexisNexis

LexisNexis Group is a company providing computer-assisted legal research services. In 2006 it had the world's largest electronic database for legal and public-records related information...

 and WestLaw

Westlaw

Westlaw is one of the primary online legal research services for lawyers and legal professionals in the United States and is a part of West. In addition, it provides proprietary database services...

 . Its international customer-base comprises barristers, solicitors, academics, students, governmental departments and researchers. It indexes about 2 million cases from numerous jurisdictions , including transcripts and unreported judgments, as well as legislation, EU materials and journal articles. The service is supported by a number of technologies, such as Microsoft .NET and SQL server platforms, XML, SOAP, AJAX, APIs and various Web 2.0-related applications.

History

JustCite was developed by Justis Publishing Ltd, a company founded in London in 1986, originally trading as Context Ltd. The first version of JustCite was launched by the company in 2002, with the second being rolled out in the summer of 2007 and the third in autumn 2010 . Version 3 was a ground-up rewrite of the service featuring a new, modern interface and advanced search technology.

Justis Publishing Ltd (formerly Context Ltd) is an independent publisher of electronic legal information and provider of publishing software and services. The company has been publishing titles online and on CD-ROM since 1986, concentrating particularly on United Kingdom

United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

 and European Union

European Union

The European Union is an economic and political union of 27 independent member states which are located primarily in Europe. The EU traces its origins from the European Coal and Steel Community and the European Economic Community , formed by six countries in 1958...

legal, official and business information. Justis users come from government, industry and commerce, the legal and financial professions and the academic community.