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Lawtel EU

About Lawtel EU

Lawtel EU offers instant access to documents from all the official sources in one place, in a digestible and easily searchable format. With every EU document containing direct hypertext links to related EU and UK sources, Lawtel EU is the only service that puts EU law into context for you.

Lawtel Update Service

Delivers a daily or weekly bulletin of the latest legal developments in civil practice. This totally flexible service enables you to:

  • Set up any number of Updates
  • Content - select from a list of over 100 subject areas and from any of the Lawtel databases/services you subscribe to
  • Method of delivery - choose online or by email (HTML, Rich Text Format, Text or Customised Webpage)
  • Frequency - daily or weekly
  • Format - Full or Headline Documents

EU Case Law

The EU Case Law Service reports all cases heard by the ECJ and the CFI, including all Advocate-General Opinions in all areas of EU law. Our team of multilingual and legally qualified editors ensures that you have access to all the latest cases, even when the original documents are not available in English.

Full digests: Our team of multilingual editors ensure that you have access to full digests of judgments and opinions within 24 hours, even when the original documents are not available in English. Our fully referenced, comprehensive archive of case reports dates back to 1989 and includes all cases (except staff cases) heard by the ECJ and the CFI in all areas of EU law (including Advocate-General Opinions).

Full Text: Hypertext links to the full text of all ECJ and CFI decisions (including Advocate-General Opinions) back to 1997 are provided from the Lawtel EU case digest.

Archive via Transcripts Express Service: Lawtel's full text document delivery service can deliver the full-text of official documents dating back to 1952. Provision of archive material is included as part of the subscription package.

Legislation

Lawtel EU's Legislation Service enables you to track the entire EU legislative process, ensuring you keep up with the latest developments as they happen. Includes:

Proposed Legislation: Updated daily, this service provides full details on all proposals for legislation put forward by the European Commission or on the initiative of the Member States. Each proposal is followed through the various stages of the legislative process which enables subscribers to keep up with the latest developments as they happen. Coverage dates from 1987. Direct access to the official full text versions of all proposed legislation is provided.

Competition Law and Merger Decisions: Lawtel EU coverage includes abstracts of all decisions published by the Directorate-General for Competition under the Merger Regulation with links to the original notification and the final formal decision, as well as to press releases containing the latest information about the case.

Other Content

Lawtel EU also contains the following materials to ensure we provide subscribers a comprehensive source of EU information:

  • Articles Index: Instant access to the abstracts of substantive legal and practice management articles from leading general and specialist European journals. By listing, and directly linking to, all cases and legislation cited, Lawtel EU puts articles into context. The full text of journal articles can be delivered by fax within 1 hour via our Articles Express service.
  • Treaties: Lawtel EU provides the full text of every Article of the EC and EU Treaty in the Maastricht version, the Amsterdam version and the Nice version. Where applicable links between versions are provided to improve navigation and make comparison simple.
  • Press Releases: Lawtel EU provides press releases issued from the Commission, the Council, the European Parliament and other EU institutions and bodies as well as EEA institutions. These are abstracted from the EU institutions' online press release services.
  • Notices: Comprehensive coverage of all Notices published in the Official Journal C series. Coverage dates from 1987.
  • Commission Reports: To provide background to the Commission's legislative programme Lawtel EU also covers all commission documents issued which are not concerned with legislative proposals such as the Annual Reports, Green Papers and White Papers.
  • Background Information: including abstracts of newsletters published by EU institutions and policy documents.

Key Features

The following key features ensure that Lawtel EU subscribers are kept fully informed of the latest developments as they happen and have all the reference tools they need in an easily accessible format:

  • Lawtel EU News Ticker: Headlines of the latest key EU developments linking through to digest and full text.
  • Lawtel EU Update Service: Providing a regular bulletin on the latest EU developments, this totally flexible service enables you to:
    • specify subject and content type so you only receive updates on issues relevant to your interests.
    • choose the number, method and frequency of delivery to suit your individual needs.
  • Research Tools: To provide further assistance Lawtel EU provides an EU glossary of terms, translations of court names, a list of nicknames, details of court term dates and a guide to the EU legislative process.

For more information on Lawtel subscription packages please call 0800 018 9797 (+44 207 449 1125 for overseas callers), email helpdesk@lawtel.com or click the links on the left-hand side at the top of this screen.