1. 1 European CASE Law EXchange Bringing national and international court cases linked to EU law into one pan-European knowledge service Roberta Nannucci ITTIG/CNR Supported by the European Commission

2. 2 Case law: the Missing Link in the Democratic Information Triangle

3. 3 Mission and target groups One-stop-shop for international and national case law of use across borders for legal professionals

4. 4 What will Caselex bring to the legal practice? Easy to use Internet based research assistant to access all important cross-border case law from Europe relevant to legal professionals work in commercial areas of law without need for multilingual and multinational legal skills –Common denominator: European Community law and international law National scope before CaselexEuropean scope after Caselex

5. 5 Legal professionals need foreign national case law Legal professionals go international with their clients European Community law is –becoming more important –the common denominator motivating Caselex users to seek relevant case law from foreign jurisdictions Court cases on European Community law are source of inspiration and solutions to common legal issues across borders

6. 6 Legal professionals will use Caselex

7. 7 Legal Pros core brings key cases without need for multilingual and multinational legal skills Court cases from national Supreme and higher/special courts linked to European Community law –Aim to cover all EU and EFTA States –Will also cover European Court of Justice and Court of First Instance, next to the EFTA Court of Justice Commercial areas of law starting point –Competition law, Company law, IPR, Labour law, Consumer law, Banking, etc Up to date on, and timely delivery of, current cases –1300-1500 new cases yearly –Will steadily add historical cases –Archive contains currently 250+ cases

8. 8 Modular service Core module is initial starting point of Caselex –Cases within commercial areas of law from supreme and higher/special courts Additional modules to be rolled out successively 1.Competition authorities 2.Lower and regional courts 3.Market councils and authorities 4.Sectorial authorities

9. 9 Added value content and services Enriched content –Full text decision in native language with possibility for translation on demand –Multilingual headnote and summary on all full text cases Written by legal professionals for legal professionals Summary to act as informative teaser to procure Translation on Demand –All cases classified according to multilingual thesaurus Knowledge explorer: Browse and search –Simple and advanced search –Drill down browsing Multiple entry doors when browsing and searching –Area of law (based on multilingual thesaurus), Country, National law & provisions, EC law Multilingual services and content –Aim is English, French, Spanish, German, Italian

10. 10 User centric for stickiness Customisation: My Caselex based on interest profile and usage –My archive by customised classification; Stored searches; Alert services; etc Knowledge capture –Personal notes to be added to cases –Personal notes to be shareable and allowed integrated into organisational knowledge space –Editorial function to organise cases and notes attached to cases following own classification Responsiveness –Feedback mechanism –Lawyers and judges allowed to suggest cases for inclusion and deliver case texts with headnote, summary and metadata classification Multilingual Help Desk –English, French, German (+ Italian and Spanish?)

11. 11 Caselex European alliance ITTIG (Italy) ZENC BV (Netherlands) Tilburg University (Netherlands) University of Namur (Belgium) First Law (Ireland) WordWave (UK) Retriever/Schibsted (Norway) Cour de Cassation (Belgium) La Direction des Journaux officiels (France) Centre of Judiciary Information (Spain) Ministry of Justice, DGSIA (Italy) Ministry of Justice, TIC (Lithuania) European Association of Judges (Italy) CCBE and ECLA members of Caselex Advisory Board

12. 12 Objectives Launch service Make a good first impression Build archive of 2.500 cases Business venture beyond 2006

13. 13 Caselex Reference Caselex website http://www.caselex.com/