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OFFICIAL SOURCES

Are you keen to save time by not having to consult a large number of free official public websites?

Do you want to be sure that you have not missed any recent official information?

With Strada lex, you are guaranteed to be able to find all the main official sources in one place.

Presented in a layout that’s clear and easy to navigate, these sources are updated continuously in real time. They are presented in chronological order, which allows you to lay your hands on texts very quickly if you know the date when they were published. Hyperlinks also enable you to access preparatory work with a single click.

In a single search, Strada lex allows you to browse content from all of the following official websites :

LARCIER CODES

Are you looking for up-to-date legislation, that has been coordinated, annotated and verified by highly regarded practitioners?

Do you want to find an article of law quickly?

Are you only looking for the main case law on an article?

Do you want to limit your legislative search to a single area of law?

Then the online version of “Les Codes Larcier” was made for you ! With a dayly update of all annotated cases available as full-text versions, and content that is twice as detailed as the paper version, you are guaranteed to have quality information on legal codes.

Are you familiar with the paper version? If so, you will not have to change your search habits. The online version is laid out in a similar format to the paper version :

• there is a table of contents so that you can find the volume that you are looking for,
• an alphabetical Index so that you can find all the legislation related to a specific keyword, and
• a chronological table so that legal texts can be retrieved by date.

Do you already subscribe to the paper version of the 'Les Codes Larcier'? Take out a subscription to Strada lex, and you wi'll have receive access to the electronic version of 'Les Codes Larcier' at no additional cost.

PERMANENT COLLECTIONS OF LEGAL JOURNALS

Are you someone who likes to run searches by area of law or via keywords?

Do you want to access all of the legal doctrine and case law relating to a legal concept?

Do you want to know what a specific author has published?

Do you want comprehensive results without having to wade through archives and all
the available legal Journals one by one?

Do you want to be able to do all of this seamlessly, with the date of the last update indicated?

The online version of the Recueil Permanent des Revues Juridiques [Permanent collection of legal periodicals] makes this frighteningly easy for anyone who subscribes to Strada lex.

With archives dating back to the end of the 1970s, the R.P.R.J. contains more than 300,000 references to articles on legal doctrine and summaries of case law decisions published in 150 legal journals, in both French and Dutch.

Under the scientific direction of Hans Van Bossuyt and Jean-François van Drooghenbroeck, the R.P.R.J. is updated monthly and has hyperlinks to full-text articles from almost half of the periodicals analysed.

References cited in the R.P.R.J. follow the official legal classification system of Belgium - the UTU (Universele Thesaurus Universal) of the S.P.F. Justice [Federal Public Service Finance]. You can therefore be sure that you will find results classified according to the same structure that is used on official public sites.

JOURNALS

Are you not sure where to start your research in the journals you subscribe to?

Do you want to keep up your hard copy subscriptions to the journals and access their electronic versions online, without having to pay twice, if not more, for the same content?

Have you run out of room to store your hard copies of journals and do you want to access them entirely online?

Do you like to be kept informed automatically when there is a new issue of your favourite legal journals?

Do you want to be sure that you can access every edition of the legal journals that you subscribe to?

Are you accustomed to consulting your journals by year, by month or by issue number and do you want to be able to do the same online?

Do you want to subscribe to a new journal and access its archives without being charged extra?

Do your staff complain about having to transcribe excerpts from articles of legal doctrine when a simple copy, cut and paste would save them a considerable amount of time?

Only Strada lex gives you all of this, for over 80 legal journals. The following titles are available, with full text articles, and archived copies for the past decade :

• 16 titles published by Bruylant (certified by electronic signature)
• 32 titles published by Larcier (certified by electronic signature)
• 48 titles published by other publishing partners

Do you already subscribe to one or more of the following journals as hard copies? Once you sign up for Strada lex, you will have access to their electronic content at no extra cost.

LEASES

Are there circumstances when you are dealing with landlord and tenant law and when you are searching for a practical tool in this area?

Do you look for model up-to-date acts relating to landlord and tenancy law that you can directly reuse on your screen?

Do you want to keep up to date with legislative changes and important case law in this area?

The 'Manuel Permanent des Baux à Loyer et Commerciaux' [Story Publishers] will give you everything you are looking for. Formerly Pauwels & Raes, this handbook has been an essential tool for those practising in the area of leaseholds and commercial property law since 1970.

Through its' numerous models, practical tips and case studies, the handbook, which is edited by Nathalie Puissant, is an invaluable day-to-day working tool for practitioners of leasehold law.

NOTARIAL DIRECTORY

Are you looking for in-depth legal analyses on a wide range of legal topics by distinguished authors?

Are you not able to lay your hands on high quality annotated models of acts in French and Dutch?

Have you always dreamed of having a legal reference encyclopaedia without having to worry about the tedious process of updating thousands of pages?

Then you certainly need the Online Notarial Directory.

Edited by Georges de LEVAL, Myriam Fox-DECLAIRFAYT and Jean-François TAYMANS, this genuine and constantly-updated legal encyclopaedia of Belgian and comparative law is available in full through Strada lex. Nearly 30,000 pages of legal doctrine and more than 1,100 bilingual models of acts that are reusable on your screen can be accessed in just a few seconds with a single search.

Are you already a subscriber to the paper version? By subscribing to Strada lex, you will still be able to consult the Notarial Directory (table of contents, A-Z index etc.) online and you will save a lot of time without having to pay an additional fee.

LIBRARY

Have you ever been given a summary that is several hundred pages long and wished that you were able to go directly to the page that is of interest to you?

Have you ever needed to consult a book in your library urgently when you are away from the office?

Without having a single hard copy of a monograph, would you like to be able to browse hundreds of publications in a single search, and retrieve only those relevant to your case?

Do you want to access your works without having to contact your colleagues to find out where they actually are?

Would you like to be able to file compliant extracts of certified works in the context of judicial court proceedings?

That is now possible in Strada lex, which has monographs from Bruylant, Edi.pro and Larcier.

Since September 1st, 2009, all Larcier monographs have been available in electronic format via Strada lex. From April 2011 onwards, this will also be possible for monographs from Bruylant and legal monographs from Edi.pro.

These monographs will be available as full text and completely free of charge to any Strada lex subscriber who has purchased the corresponding hard copy. Each book contains an identifier code on the inside cover, which you just type into Strada lex to bring up the corresponding electronic version.