Westlaw Australia

This course shows you how to carry out key research tasks using Westlaw Australia to improve your work efficiency.

This session introduces the basic functionality of Westlaw Australia and shows you how to confidently navigate, search and retrieve information.

This course shows how to keep you up to date with case law, changes to legislation and journals.

This session will focus on locating and researching legislation. Searching techniques will be covered to help efficiently find relevant legislation.

This session will cover how to find, browse, and search secondary sources on Westlaw Australia. It will discuss the different types of secondary sources including journals and commentaries, as well as highlighting the various research methods for locating information.

Learn how to efficiently locate cases by using citations, party names, keywords, or by legal topics using the Key Number system. Understand the KeyCite tabs to identify the status of a case, to see the citing references and authorities used, and if the case has any litigation history.

This session will explain how to use the Cases Advanced search template to find Cases by keywords as well as using the case search fields in the template. We recommend attending the Introduction to Caselaw Research webinar prior to attending this course.

This webinar introduces and explains how to access, download and use Forms and Precedents in Westlaw Australia and provides an overview of content included in the Essentials package.

This webinar shows how to carry out media searches using Newsroom.