Thomson Reuters announced the launch of its leading legal research service, Westlaw Gulf, in Qatar. The launch was announced at event supported by the Qatari Ministry of Justice.
Westlaw Gulf is designed to radically improve the way lawyers work in the Gulf by offering the most comprehensive source of laws covering the region. Featuring an extensive and unique database of 3,000 translated laws from Qatar and more than 8,000 commercially relevant documents from around the Gulf region, legal professionals in Qatar, and those researching into Qatari law, can now consult more sources, and reference more materials, with greater accuracy and speed than ever before.
Westlaw Gulf is built upon state-of-the-art Westlaw technology, and modeled after market-leading legal information services from Thomson Reuters in the United Kingdom, United States, India, Asia and South America.
The launch of Westlaw Gulf in Qatar was announced at an event sponsored by Hassan Bin Abdullah Al-Ghanem, Minister of Justice, Qatar.
“The Ministry of Justice welcomes initiatives such as announcement from Thomson Reuters,” Ibrahim Musa Hitmi, under-secretary assistant for legal affairs at the Ministry of Justice, Qatar, said. “Such initiatives are consistent with the aim of facilitating efficient online access to Qatar’s laws and legislations, and in line with the country’s ambitious National Vision.”
“We are delighted to launch our leading legal research service in Qatar and are grateful for the support of the Ministry of Justice,” Russell Haworth, managing director, Middle East and North Africa, Thomson Reuters, said.
“Westlaw Gulf provides a wealth of legal information relating to Qatar, expertly indexed and translated, as well as the latest news from across the Gulf, allowing lawyers to keep track of the latest legal developments and reducing valuable time spent on lengthy legal research.”
Westlaw Gulf features a Master Gazette Index which is set up for professionals to search through titles of all laws in English. All translations are carried out by legal experts and overseen by the in-house expert legal translation team at Thomson Reuters, all of whom have experience in the local Qatar market and the wider Middle East. English translations of the 3,000 Qatari laws include links to the original Arabic text, and are sourced from the official Gazette and cover commercial laws spanning from 1961 to 2013.