Sweet & Maxwell is a British
publisher specialising in
legal publications
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. It joined the
Associated Book Publishers Associated may refer to:
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* Associated Hebrew Schools of Toronto, a school in Canada
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in 1969; ABP was purchased by the
International Thomson Organization in 1987, and is now part of
Thomson Reuters. Its British and Irish group includes W. Green in
Scotland and Round Hall in
Ireland.
Sweet & Maxwell publishes
Westlaw-UK, as well as the
Lawtel
Sweet & Maxwell is a British publisher specialising in legal publications. It joined the Associated Book Publishers in 1969; ABP was purchased by the International Thomson Organization in 1987, and is now part of Thomson Reuters. Its British a ...
, LocalawUK, Legal Hub, and DocDel on-line services. It also published many well-regarded looseleafs and books. Its flagship print products include the ''White Book'' (publishing the Civil Procedure Rules 1998, along with extensive commentary and additional material) and ''
Archbold Criminal Pleading, Evidence and Practice
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It has been in p ...
'' (the leading practitioners' text for criminal lawyers in England & Wales and several other
common law jurisdictions around the world). In 2003, its Asia division (with headquarters in
Hong Kong,
Malaysia, and
Singapore) won the contract to supply law books to the Hong Kong government. Sweet & Maxwell is part of the European law publishers initiative
Law Publishers in Europe.
See also
* ''
European Competition Law Review
The ''European Competition Law Review'' (ECLR) is a monthly journal published by Sweet & Maxwell and dedicated to international competition law
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*
Incomes Data Services
* ''
Jowitt's Dictionary of English Law''
* ''
Scots Law Times''
External links
*
Sweet & Maxwell Hong Kong web site(via archive.org)
Thomson Reuters
Legal publishers
Legal research
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