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Selected Session Cases available online

The Scottish Council of Law Reporting, publishers of the Session Cases, have made selected cases available for free from their website.

In their own words:

For some years the Scottish Council of Law Reporting has provided the law-teaching universities in Scotland with a CD-ROM containing cases selected from the Session Cases® archive to distribute as a learning aid to their students. Technologies change, and the Council is pleased to provide a database of Scottish cases selected from their archive as an open access resource.

The only problem I'm having is finding out a listing or index of what these selected cases are, but hey, for allowing even some access to an otherwise subscriber access only database, I'm not complaining!
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Unknown said…
Jennie, the contents of this source are listed here http://www.justis.com/search.aspx?search=contents the cases are listed chronologically and display how many cases are available from each year.
3 November 2008 at 13:52
Dumpling said…
I hate the Justis SC navigation almost as much as I hate LexisNexis's!

We have a sub to the Session Cases online at the moment anyway, but the navigation for them isn't so hot, and just listing that there's a case in a year doesn't really help.

If there was a master list of the case names, it would mean glancing at that to see if it was on there, instead of having to burrow into half a dozen click boxes (Justis > Cases > Scottish Cases > Session Cases > Select year > Show results) to confirm if the case you want is one of the "selected" ones or not.

Again, it *is* free, but it would be better if was also simpler to use! ;)
3 November 2008 at 14:06
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