Caselex
Caselex is a unique legal information service opening up national case law and other important decisions with a European connotation to legal professions. It was a legaltech before the term even existed. As such it has contributed to the Europeanisation of law. Relying on a network of editors throughout Europe, Caselex systematically summarizes in English case law and other decisions that have a cross border value to legal professionals. The service consists of the Caselex Market Definitions Module and several Case Law Modules.
Caselex history
Caselex was launched as a project in 2005. It was founded by Stig Marthinsen, with Marc de Vries as project technical coordinator. Stig Marthinsen left the firm in 2011. Legal publisher LexisNexis bought Caselex in 2022. Marc de Vries left Caselex in 2023.Caselex Market Definitions Module
Defining relevant markets is crucial in concentration control and antitrust cases. The Caselex Market Definitions Module gives user friendly access to English summaries of relevant markets definitions of concentration control decisions rendered by all 34 national and European competition authorities since 2000 up to today.Accordingly, by giving an instant synoptic European-wide overview of all relevant markets defined it provides support to lawyers submitting notifications and to competition authorities responsible for concentration control under the as well as national rules thereon. Each product market is searchable on the basis of names of products and NACE codes and each definition backed up by the line of reasoning of the competition authority. Full texts of original decision are also available and downloadable in PDF.
Currently, the database holds over 3.500 national and 900 DG COMP decisions holding more than 10.000 market definitions. The launch of this Module is foreseen in January 2016.