Abridgment eDigests

The exclusive WestlaweCARSWELL current awareness service is available to LawSource, FamilySource, CriminalSource, InsolvencySource , and IPSource subscribers. The topical Abridgment eDigests are e-mailed to subscribers once a week. WestlaweCARSWELL offers 29 topical eDigests for LawSource subscribers, three for FamilySource subscribers, five for CriminalSource subscribers, one for InsolvencySource subscribers, and one for IPSource subscribers. Refer to the detailed list of topical Abridgment eDigests for more information.

How can they help you?

Only Abridgment eDigests provide you with the most convenient way to stay current of the latest developments in case law for a particular topic. Every week, one a week, you will receive an email with a list of topical eDigests. You can scan subject areas and find cases relevant to issues of interest to you. Each topic is hyperlinked to a digest of a case. You can link to the full text decision of each digest by clicking on the case citation that appears at the bottom of each case digest.

Why Abridgment eDigests from WestlaweCARSWELL?

The Canadian Abridgment, a Thomson Carswell exclusive, is your key to understanding Canadian law. Its online version is available on WestlaweCARSWELL and provides you with the most powerful case law finding tool online. The Canadian Abridgment on WestlaweCARSWELL allows you to browse or search case law online topically by classification. It contains a comprehensive collection of more than 690,000 digests of Canadian Case Law. The Canadian Abridgment covers virtually every case reported in Canada back to 1803, and every case received from the courts since 1986, whether reported or unreported, with the exception of Québec civil law. The Abridgment eDigest content is derived from case digests that have been written for The Canadian Abridgment Case Digests. The Canadian Abridgment eDigests are available for specific topical areas, and represent a sub-set of all of the cases digested for The Canadian Abridgment, excluding cases that are judged to have little precedential value.