February 8, 2006—Carswell adds the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador to its group of CriminalSource^TM users

Carswell (www.carswell.com), Canada's leading provider of specialized information and electronic research solutions to the legal, tax, finance, accounting and human resources markets, today announced the addition of the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador to its group of CriminalSource users. Now seven out of ten provinces use CriminalSource as their online legal research service of choice. In the past two years Alberta, Manitoba, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, Saskatchewan and Quebec have signed province-wide CriminalSource licenses (with select licenses in New Brunswick).

“It is not surprising that CriminalSource adoption is spreading so fast, especially in the government sector,” said Bob Freeman, V.P. Strategic Market Groups. “Currently there is no other online legal research solution in Canada that provides provincial prosecutors, or any other legal professional specializing in criminal law, with exactly what they need to do their jobs efficiently and with great precision.”

CriminalSource stands out due to its exclusive content and powerful functionality—all just a mouse-click away. Exclusive and key content available online includes case digests and legislative histories from Crankshaw’s Criminal Code of Canada, Tremeear’s Annotated Criminal Code and Tremeear’s Annotated Related Criminal Statutes, Watt’s Manual of Evidence, Segal’s Disclosure and Production in Criminal Cases, Gibson’s Criminal Law Evidence, Practice and Procedure, case digests in Nadin-Davis’ Canadian Sentencing Digest, as well as Justice David Watt’s biweekly Criminal Law and Evidence Newsletter. “On the functionality side, using CriminalSource results in more productive researching, increased collaboration and knowledge sharing amongst government prosecutors,” said Gayle Long, Online Marketing Director. “The ability to save searches, email cases and research trails, allows lawyers from different offices to share data in a productive manner.”

CriminalSource greatly improves the efficiencies in the daily lives of government prosecutors. Its ease-of-use allows lawyers to achieve better research results right from their desktops reducing the dependence on paralegals and designated researchers. It detangles the complexity of cases with KeyCiteCanada— Canada’s leading case citator and only statute and rule citator. CriminalSource provides users with links to related information on a specific case or section of a statute with a much higher degree of precision than any other service. The online legal research service aids in the consistency and quality of work amongst government prosecutors across the country.

CriminalSource is a part of WestlaweCARSWELL’s suite of online legal research services including LawSource, IPSource, FamilySource, InsolvencySource, and SecuritiesSource. The Sources can be used together or separately to users the entire perspective they need for a complete research solution.

About Carswell

Carswell (www.carswell.com) is Canada's leading provider of specialized information and electronic research solutions to the legal, tax, finance, accounting and human resources markets. Headquartered in Toronto, ON, Carswell provides integrated information in a range of formats, including books, loose-leaf services, journals, newsletters, CD-ROMS and online. Carswell is a business within The Thomson Corporation.

About The Thomson Corporation

The Thomson Corporation (www.thomson.com) with 2004 revenues of $8.10 billion is a global leader in providing integrated information solutions to business and professional customers.  Thomson provides value-added information, software tools and applications to more than 20 million users in the fields of law, tax, accounting, financial services, higher education, reference information, corporate e-learning and assessment, scientific research and healthcare. With operational headquarters in Stamford, Conn., Thomson has approximately 40,000 employees and provides services in approximately 130 countries. The Corporation's common shares are listed on the New York and Toronto stock exchanges (NYSE: TOC; TSX: TOC).

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