Canadian Association of Law Libraries 2014 Award for Excellence in Legal Publishing to JurisClasseur Quebec

The Canadian Association of Law Libraries (CALL) announced yesterday at its annual conference in Winnipeg that the JurisClasseur Quebec encyclopedia (LexisNexis Canada) is the winner of the 2014 Hugh Lawford Award for Excellence in Legal Publishing.

It honours a publisher (whether for-profit or not-for profit, corporate or non-corporate) that has demonstrated excellence by publishing a work, series, website or e-product that makes a significant contribution to legal research and scholarship.

There was a brief description of the encyclopedia on Slaw.ca in December 2012.

The other nominees for this year's Hugh Lawford award were:

• The Queen’s Bench Rules of Saskatchewan: Annotated, 4^th ed. (Law Society of Saskatchewan Libraries)
• Copyright Law, Fourth Edition (John Wiley and Sons, Inc.)
• GALLOP: Government and Legislative Libraries Online Publications Portal (Association of Parliamentary Libraries in Canada/ L’Association des bibliothèques parlementaires au Canada)

The award honours Hugh Lawford (1933-2009), Professor of Law at Queens’ University and the founder of Quicklaw.