About Criminal Law Week

Criminal Law Week was established as a weekly, printed publication in 1997 to deal with the difficulties faced by the criminal law practitioner in keeping abreast of all developments happening each week. Cases are often published in numerous different sources and with varying names. The editor, James Richardson, realised from his own experience as a criminal barrister at 23 Essex Street, how difficult it was to keep up to date and in addition to find the relevant information again in the future.

The standard subscription to Criminal Law Week is to Criminal Law Week Combined which provides all the advantages of an online subscription together with the convenience of the printed subscription. It is also possible to subscribe to only the printed or online versions. For more information on our products and pricings, click here.

Criminal Law Week – the printed publication

Criminal Law Week provides its subscribers with:

By scouring all the various sources of new developments (30 sets of law reports and journals, plus legislation, unreported cases, judicial protocols, etc.) we ensure that our subscribers are completely up-to-date with the latest developments through a single source. Each issue is designed to be read in around half an hour.

Subscribers to the printed version receive 46 issues a year, posted first-class on Saturdays. They also receive a binder at the beginning of the calendar year for filing the issues and ease of future reference.

Criminal Law Week Online

The online service was originally set up in 1998 and then relaunched in 2001. With a subscription to Criminal Law Week Online at www.criminal-law.co.uk subscribers have access to:

In addition Criminal Law Week’s Statutes Service has recently been added to the online service. This new service provides you with fully up-to-date and annotated text of some of today's most relevant criminal legislation. For further details of the Statutes Service please click here.

Subscribers

Criminal Law Week has over 2,400 individual subscribers who include barristers, solicitors, police, judiciary, academics, government legal services and courts. Criminal Law Week also has contracts with a number of government agencies, including, in particular, the Crown Prosecution Service and the Department of Constitutional Affairs. These ensure that Criminal Law Week Online is available to all Crown Prosecution Service employees and all courts and members of the judiciary, from magistrates’ courts legal advisers to the House of Lords. At the end of 2006, there were in excess of 10,000 active online accounts. As well as subscribers in England and Wales, Criminal Law Week has a small number of overseas subscribers.

Continuing Professional Development Courses

Criminal Law Week runs distance learning courses for barristers and solicitors. Registrants complete multiple-choice questionnaires, based solely on content published in Criminal Law Week, within a two-week period. If eight out of the 12 questions are answered correctly one CPD hour is awarded. There are 15 question papers in total throughout the year. Barristers are able to gain 100% of their CPD requirement (12 hours) through the course and solicitors can obtain 75 % (12 hours) of their requirement. For more information about our CPD Course and pricings please click here.

Company details

Criminal Law Week is published by Thomson Reuters (Legal) Limited, trading as Criminal Law Week. 
Registered Office: 100 Avenue Road, London, NW3 3PF 
Registered in England and Wales with Company No. 1679046 
VAT No. GB900 5487 43

Criminal Law Week is published by Thomson Reuters (Legal) Limited, trading as Criminal Law Week.
Registered Office: 100 Avenue Road, London, NW3 3PF
Registered in England and Wales with Company No. 1679046