Westlaw New Zealand – Researching Legislation and Secondary Sources

Learn to find relevant legislation and commentary efficiently with Westlaw’s new search. Key features will include legislation currency and history.

Description

In this session learn how to:

  • Locate Acts, Secondary Legislation (also know as Regulations) and Bills.
  • Browse and search a commentary publication.
  • Quickly access an Act, or a section of an Act using the Global Search Bar.

    • Locate historic and future legislation in the History tab.
    • Identify the related annotated and discursive commentary, book chapters and caselaw.
  • Conduct a topic-based search using plain language and/or terms and connectors.
    • Refine and filter search results.
    • Annotate, print, download, email and save content to a folder in Westlaw New Zealand.
    • Create a search alert to be notified by email of new search results.

CPD credit information

0.5 points

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