Sweet & Maxwell (via Thomson Reuters) has acquired leading independent legal publication Criminal Law Week which provides digests of case decisions and new legislation to 15,000 criminal law practitioners. The online version gives access to a database of 12,000 digests of cases, statutes and statutory instruments. There are extensive search tools as well as links to full text transcripts from Casetrack and an update feature indicating where digests have been affected by later developments.

The journal also provides CPD as part of the online service. It is run by barrister James Richardson, who has also edited Archbold since 1982 and will continue to create the content under the new ownership.