Its coverage is "wide" but incomplete, and it can be "complicated to use" if the user does not understand how the editions overlap.
[1] In 1994, it included cases from England and Wales, Scotland, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and other parts of the Commonwealth, and from the European Communities.
[2] More than half a million cases from more than a thousand series of law reports were summarised.
This was directed by the Earl of Halsbury and Sir Thomas Willes Chitty.
[4] It contains the fullest listing of the case law of the United Kingdom, including almost all reported decisions from the sixteenth century.