March 2025
Fri 14 Mar 2025
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM (30 minutes)
This session focuses on efficient research techniques providing examples of different search strategies to find relevant content in Westlaw.
Mon 17 Mar 2025
8:00 AM - 8:30 AM (30 minutes)
Learn to find relevant legislation and commentary efficiently with Westlaw’s new search. Key features will include legislation currency and history.
Tue 18 Mar 2025
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM (30 minutes)
Newsroom on Westlaw New Zealand is a vast collection of news resources. Join this Webinar and discover techniques to enable you to search and navigate confidently.
Thu 20 Mar 2025
7:00 AM - 8:00 AM (1 hour)
This webinar is designed for New Zealand Councils and introduces the basics of the Westlaw New Zealand platform. After attending, you will be able to confidently navigate, search, and retrieve information.
Tue 25 Mar 2025
10:00 AM - 10:45 AM (45 minutes)
This course will provide you with effective research techniques to find case law and will demonstrate how to quickly establish the status of a case. Tips on how to refine and manage search results will be included. Learn how to get notified by email when new cases are added or the status of a case changes.
Wed 26 Mar 2025
8:00 AM - 8:30 AM (30 minutes)
In this 30 minute course learn how to filter and refine results, extract text from documents, annotate and save important content to folders, save key searches and create alerts. How to set up a Custom Page will also be covered.
Wed 26 Mar 2025
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (1 hour)
This session focuses on finding case law by topic. This is helpful if you don't have a case citation or a case name, or if a case has been anonymised. Explore the depth of Westlaw's Key Number System.
Wed 26 Mar 2025
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM (1 hour)
The session will explain how to find cases, legislation, treatises, journals, current awareness and news articles across several jurisdictions including Westlaw New Zealand, Westlaw Australia as well as International Materials, found in Westlaw Classic. This course is open to all students.
Thu 27 Mar 2025
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (1 hour)
This session focuses on finding Forms and Precedents in Westlaw, as well as any commentary that is available for them. How to use the Drafting Aide to complete the forms speedily is also covered.
April 2025
Mon 7 Apr 2025
8:00 AM - 8:30 AM (30 minutes)
This session focuses on efficient research techniques providing examples of different search strategies to find relevant content in Westlaw.
Tue 8 Apr 2025
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (1 hour)
This session outlines efficient research techniques to find Family content available in New Westlaw NZ. Confidently locate relevant legislation, commentaries, and case law, as well as other related secondary sources. Research strategies include natural language, structuring searches, understanding linking between documents, and how to refine results.
Thu 10 Apr 2025
9:00 AM - 9:30 AM (30 minutes)
Learn to find relevant legislation and commentary efficiently with Westlaw’s new search. Key features will include legislation currency and history.
Mon 14 Apr 2025
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM (1 hour)
The session will explain how to find cases, legislation, treatises, journals, current awareness and news articles across several jurisdictions including Westlaw New Zealand, Westlaw Australia as well as International Materials, found in Westlaw Classic. This course is open to all students.
Wed 16 Apr 2025
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM (1 hour)
This session focuses on finding Forms and Precedents in Westlaw, as well as any commentary that is available for them. How to use the Drafting Aide to complete the forms speedily is also covered.
Wed 16 Apr 2025
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM (1 hour)
This webinar focuses on the different components of the criminal practice area, where the information is located in Westlaw NZ, and tips on how to use it effectively.
Tue 29 Apr 2025
7:30 AM - 8:00 AM (30 minutes)
In this 30 minute course learn how to filter and refine results, extract text from documents, annotate and save important content to folders, save key searches and create alerts. How to set up a Custom Page will also be covered.
May 2025
Thu 1 May 2025
8:00 AM - 8:45 AM (45 minutes)
This course is designed to get you up and running using the key features in Westlaw New Zealand.
Tue 6 May 2025
7:30 AM - 8:00 AM (30 minutes)
This course will provide you with effective research techniques to find case law and will demonstrate how to quickly establish the status of a case. Tips on how to refine and manage search results will be included. Learn how to get notified by email when new cases are added or the status of a case changes.
Wed 7 May 2025
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM (1 hour)
This webinar is designed for New Zealand Councils and introduces the basics of the Westlaw New Zealand platform. After attending, you will be able to confidently navigate, search, and retrieve information.
Thu 8 May 2025
8:00 AM - 8:30 AM (30 minutes)
This course will demonstrate how alerts can be set up to keep you informed if there are any updates to a search, publication or document as well as how to receive the Alert24 email notifications.
Mon 12 May 2025
7:30 AM - 8:00 AM (30 minutes)
This webinar introduces the browser-based interface for Thomson Reuters e-book platform, ProView.
Tue 13 May 2025
7:30 AM - 8:00 AM (30 minutes)
This session will provide an overview of the key features available and will demonstrate how to efficiently locate required information.
Wed 14 May 2025
8:00 AM - 8:45 AM (45 minutes)
This session aims to enhance your research skills in Westlaw by teaching efficient techniques and strategies for finding relevant content. It covers using natural legal language, structuring Terms & Connectors searches, understanding document linking, and refining search results. Additionally, it includes guidance on locating regulations, legislative definitions, and other research scenarios pertinent to Council staff.
Thu 15 May 2025
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM (1 hour)
This session focuses on the topic of Employment Law. Westlaw's resources include expert commentary, cases and full text legislation, news service and a specialist tracker. The trainer will provide you with a convenient one stop shop to access these tools.