Editing Sweet & Maxwell

{{Short description|British publisher specialising in legal publications}}
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'''Sweet & Maxwell''' is a British [[publisher]] specialising in [[legal publications]]. It joined the [[Associated Book Publishers]] in 1969; ABP was purchased by the [[International Thomson Organization]] in 1987, and is now part of [[Thomson Reuters]]. Its British and Irish 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, 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. Sweet & Maxwell is part of the European law publishers initiative [[Law Publishers in Europe]].

== See also ==
* ''[[European Competition Law Review]]''
* [[Incomes Data Services]]
* ''[[Jowitt's Dictionary of English Law]]''
* ''[[Scots Law Times]]''

== External links ==
* {{Official website|http://www.sweetandmaxwell.co.uk/ }}
* [http://www.sweetandmaxwell.com.hk/ Sweet & Maxwell Hong Kong web site]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20060822230430/http://www.sweetandmaxwell.co.uk/about/history.html History of Sweet & Maxwell] (via archive.org)

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