In April, 1940, two lawyers, deeply interested in the study of the topics usually dealt with in our Courts implemented the praiseworthy idea to publish a newspaper containing information about the most interesting cases decided by our judges, including abstracts, summaries and works of legal science and doctrine written by jurists. It was to include also judicial notices and advertisements in its pages.

Thus Messrs. Eduardo Albanell Mac Coll and Oscar Arias Barbé, both attorneys-at-law, start a work that fulfills the need for creation they held in their spirit, and that has actually been carried out for more than sixty years. It has by now turned into an indispensable instrument for consultation and advice for judges, lawyers, students, notaries, and all institutions working in the legal field. We could not possibly imagine court judgments which to a greater or lesser extend did not refer to a case included in our collection.

What we are like today:


Our paper appears daily, on account of legal notices and advertisements, and contains sections devoted to Court decisions and doctrine, that subscribers receive in bimonthly issues, containing the itemized index for said periods. Every six months such publications are bound in a volume, and from time to time an accumulative index is issued in diskette form for PC. Since October 2000, our publication, besides its paper form, has also been available on the INTERNET; its database now includes all the material regarding case laws and doctrines from 1940 and coming up to this date. This version, called "LA JUSTICIA URUGUAYA ON LINE", enables us to meet the demands of all computer science advances and provides a solution to the storage space problem as well.

Today this publication is in charge of the generation following that of the founders, its directors being Mr. Eduardo Albanell Martino, Ll.D. and Not. Adolfo Albanell Martino (who is the editor as well).

What we offer:


The full collection as of January/February 2007 includes 15.384 Court decisions, 4.173 doctrinal essays, case law notes and book reviews, and 1.671 case law abstracts. Bimonthly compilations, printed on paper, are supplied to subscribers on the first days of February, April, June, August, October and December. And for "La Justicia Uruguaya On Line" the new material is added monthly.

The purpose of this collection:


Summaries are written so as to easily convey to the readers the interesting issues, to be found through comprehensive indexes. This task is now maximized in our On Line version, which allows the reader, by means of a simple but effective search system, to find the desired topic. The On Line database is meant to continually increase with the addition of new materials as they are produced, and also with the addition of a selection of the contents of all the volumes prepared before 1980 (Vols 1 through 79), the ultimate goal being the completion of a substantial source of information and reference On Line.