Westlaw New Zealand for Councils – Developing your Research Skills

This course is designed to get you up and running using the key features in Westlaw New Zealand.

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

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.

The session introduces content is available in International Materials, found in Westlaw Classic. Learn how to retrieve legal materials and implement effective legal research strategies.

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.

This webinar introduces the browser-based interface for Thomson Reuters e-book platform, ProView.

This webinar introduces the basic functionality available in the new Westlaw New Zealand platform, and will guide the user to navigate, search and retrieve key information.

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.

This session focuses on efficient research techniques providing examples of different search strategies to find relevant content in Westlaw.

Learn how to navigate the Practical Law UK and Global functionalities so you can explore content with more confidence.

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.

This session outlines efficient research techniques to find health and safety content available in Westlaw NZ, covering various practice areas. 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.

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.

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.

This course focuses on the Property Law resources available in Westlaw New Zealand, including expert commentary, cases, full text legislation and news service. The Trainer will provide you with a convenient one stop shop access to these tools.

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.

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.

This session outlines recent enhancements made to Westlaw New Zealand

This session focuses on the topic of Commercial Law. Westlaw's resources include expert commentary, cases and full text legislation, and a news service. The trainer will provide you with a convenient one stop shop to access these tools.

Make a speedy start in New Westlaw NZ – gain an understanding of the depth of new content and functions, learn how to locate commentaries, legislation, and cases, create favourites, and utilise New Westlaw’s new and improved Environment search features.

This session focuses on the topic of sale of alcohol. Westlaw's resources include expert commentary, cases and full text legislation, and news service. The trainer will provide you with a convenient one stop shop to access these tools.

This session will provide an overview of the key features available and will demonstrate how to efficiently locate required information.

This course explains how to locate books in Westlaw New Zealand, browse a book title and search for key terms within books. It also provides guidance on managing information found in books and how to locate more details regarding author information, publication date, currency and citation information.

This course is designed for users that have a basic understanding of Westlaw but feel like they could be using it more efficiently.

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.

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.

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.