It is worth noting that CLIC had many sceptics and naysayers, not the least of which were the commercial
legal publishers who were exasperated
by what was seen as an
effort to usurp their traditional role as the key providers of
legal information.
In an
effort to reduce costs and maintain profit margins,
legal publishers have embraced the idea of contracting out editorial processes and systems maintenance and development to businesses based offshore, that may or may not be owned
by the
legal publishers.
Despite best
efforts of individual
legal publishers, there are many understandable reasons for incomplete databases: — problems with obtaining access to cases available on one service that are no longer available from the source, — copyright claims and the threat of litigation
by traditional print
publishers respecting print law report series, — the control exercised
by SOQUIJ over access to Quebec cases, and / or — the lack of the will
by the
publisher to identify and and acquire missing cases identified
by means of a database audit.