Lawtags

Lawtags is a utility which recognises legal citations and references. There are currently three environments in which Lawtags is used:

• Lawtags is integrated with with infolaw Lawlinker to process individually-specified citations or all citations on a web page. For full information, see the Lawlinker information page.
• Lawtags for MS Office works with Word, Excel and Outlook documents (Office 2003 and above).
• Lawtags for Google Co-op works with Google Search

Lawtags for MS Office

Lawtags for MS Office is an application of Microsoft Office Smart Tags.

Once you've installed infolaw Lawtags for MS Office, when you open any Word or Excel document or Outlook email, Lawtags will recognise legal citations used in the document and Office highlights these with dotted underlines. When you click on an underlined link you are presented with a menu of actions enabling you to look up these references using infolaw Lawlinker which provides bibliographic detail, links to web pages where the full text is published and additional links for further reference.

If you'd like to trial infolaw Lawtags for MS Office, please request the install file and documentation from nickholmes@infolaw.co.uk.

Lawtags for Google Co-op (beta)

Lawtags for Google Co-op is an application of Google Subscribed Links which are a feature of the new Google Co-op service (beta).

Once you've signed up on Google Co-op to subscribe to infolaw Lawtags, when you type a legal citation or reference in the Google search box, Lawtags will recognise it and present a result enabling you to look up these references using infolaw Lawlinker which provides bibliographic detail, links to web pages where the full text is published and additional links for further reference.

Subscribe to infolaw Lawtags for Google Co-op (free).

Please note, this implementation is very much in beta and we are not developing it further at present.

What references will Lawtags recognise?

Lawtags currently recognises:

• Citations of UK, Scottish and NI Acts and SIs, eg 2003 c. 15, 2004 asp 1, SI 2004 No. 289, Scottish SI 2004 No. 15
• Titles of all UK Acts (from 1800), and all Scottish and NI Acts, eg Extradition Act 2003, Dog Fouling (Scotland) Act 2003
• Citations of EU legislation, eg Directive 2003/8/EC, Regulation 101/99, Decision 2003/391/EC, Com Doc 2000/132
• Citations of UK cases, eg [2004] UKHL 4, [2005] UKPC 5
• Citations of England and Wales cases, eg [2004] EWCA Civ 53, [2005] EWHC 30 (QB)
• Citations of Scottish cases, eg [2004] ScotCS 5, [2005] CSOH 12
• Citations of NI cases, eg [2004] NIQB 15
• Citations of ECJ cases, eg Case C-448/01
• Titles of other cases (if delimited in some way), eg Coys of Kensington Holdings Ltd v McDonald

Lawtags will generally recognise most variations of the citation types noted, but there will be exceptions. Further reference types and citation variations will be catered for in future.

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