A new look, and Justis is done

Justis' new look and improved functionality makes searching easier

A new-look version of online legal library Justis has been launched. The long-awaited Justis 2.0 uses different underlying technology and new functionality, including more sophisticated searching capability and My Justis, a personalised user area.

The service has undergone a complete overhaul, said Jonathan Daymond, sales and marketing director at Justis Publishing. The new version is based on Microsoft’s .Net architecture, making it easier to integrate with other applications.

According to Daymond, the new interface includes more user-friendly searching. “There’s a quick search functionality, which offers more familiar search strategies, and we’ve added a number of new ways in which people can narrow their results.”

Users will now have to register and log in before using the service. “There’s an automatic trail functionality, so when you log in with your own ID and password it automatically records what you do,” said Daymond.

“If you worked on something a couple of weeks ago and can’t remember what you did, you can go back and refer to your old searches and pull up all the documents you looked at on the day,” he explained.

The State Trials, an archive covering English trials relating to offences against the State, such as treason, has been added to the site, and Daymond said there are plans to add more data sources in future.

Justis has also been integrated with legal reference search engine JustCite. “If you subscribe to both services, you can look at a case on Justis and see where it has been referred to subsequently across a much broader cross-section of case reports than we cover in full text on Justis,” said Daymond.

Daymond added that Justis Publishing welcomes any suggestions for improvement from the service’s users, because it is now so much easier to add functionality.

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