Sweet & Maxwell
| Company type | Subsidiary |
|---|---|
| Industrie | publisher |
| Gegründet | As Stephen Sweet 1799, as Alexander Maxwell 1800, as Sweet & Maxwell 1802 |
| Hauptsitz | London |
| Parent | Thomson Reuters |
| Website | www.sweetandmaxwell.co.uk |
Sweet & Maxwell is a British publisher specialising in legal publications, which joined the Thomson Organization in 1987, and is now part of the Thomson Reuters group. Its British group includes W. Green in Scotland and Round Hall in Ireland. Sweet & Maxwell publishes Westlaw-UK, as well as the Lawtel, LocalawUK, Legal Hub, and DocDel on-line services. It also published many well-regarded looseleafs and books. Its flagship print products include the White Book (publishing the Civil Procedure Rules 1998 (CPR) along with extensive commentary and additional material) and Archbold Criminal Pleading, Evidence and Practice (the leading practitioners' text for criminal lawyers in England & Wales and several other common law jurisdictions around the world). In 2003, its Asia division, with headquarters in Hong Kong, Malaysia and Singapore, won the contract to supply law books to the Hong Kong government.
See also
- Lawtel, owned by Sweet & Maxwell
External links
- Sweet & Maxwell web site
- Sweet & Maxwell Hong Kong web site
- Sweet & Maxwell Asia web site
- History of Sweet & Maxwell (via archive.org)
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