LawNet is a service provided by the Singapore Academy of Law, in tandem with content providers such as the Attorney-General's Chambers, and the Singapore Judiciary, the Supreme Court and Subordinate Courts.

LawNet is a subscription portal that caters to the research and legal information needs of the legal community of Singapore. Since its inception in 1988 as a dial up network access provider, www.lawnet.com.sg has grown in leaps and bounds, adding information, applications and databases to suit the evolving needs of legal practitioners, corporate counsel, paralegals, law academics and law students.
 

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The LawNet Secretariat under the Academy, provides day-to-day management and formulation and proposal of policy to the LawNet Management Committee. CrimsonLogic is the technology partner through which policy and direction is implemented.

It is a core philosophy of the LawNet Secretariat to continually upgrade, revise and augment the range of value-added services, technology and information to maintain the Singapore legal industry’s competitive edge in online research and work.

 

 

LawNet2 launched in July 2007 is a complete revamp of the legal IT network that is currently used by more than 70% of lawyers in Singapore. It has a variety of new features and content. The key enhancements of the new portal include a wider repository of databases including the addition of English case law in the legal research module. A revamped Legal Research module provides a more user-friendly user interface and enables a single search to be made across various databases. Users can also browse cases and reference materials by catchwords. The rich cross referencing and seamless links between Malaysian, Singapore and English cases and additional tools such as Client Tracker (a basic practice management time-keeping tool for billing), saved searches, reminders and e-mails alerts help users manage their time and conduct research more efficiently.

The Litigation and BizNet modules are now combined into a new Due Diligence module which provides users with a one-stop solution for their due diligence needs.