Family cases update – short and sweet!

Following on from Jordan’s update in April (see “A new look for i-law, ICLR and Jordan’s“) there is a further new feature worth noting: Case Reports by topic for the Family Law Journal and a subject matter index for the Famiy Law Reports.  Both of these appear in the drop-down browse options for the titles and allow you to browse through an index of subject terms for cases, which will be particularly helpful when you don’t have any references to start from.  Unlike the index feature discussed in the earlier review, this has the advantage of being related to a specific title, so there are no worries about following your term all the way through only to find we don’t have a subscription to the title in question.  This new feature will also allow you to find terms that can be used in a case search, without having to guess.  There is still a little bit of legwork to be done, as these tools have allowed very similar terms – for example, “Appeal” and “Appeals”; “Brussels II Revised” and “Brussels IIR”; “Homelessness” and “Housing: Homelessness” appear in the lists – but overall a very useful new feature.