Upcoming Courses

Fri 18 Oct 2024

8:00 AM - 9:00 AM (1 hour)

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.

Mon 21 Oct 2024

7:30 AM - 8:30 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 22 Oct 2024

10:00 AM - 10:30 AM (30 minutes)

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

Wed 30 Oct 2024

7:00 AM - 7:30 AM (30 minutes)

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

Wed 30 Oct 2024

10:30 AM - 11:00 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.

Thu 31 Oct 2024

12:00 PM - 12:30 PM (30 minutes)

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

Mon 4 Nov 2024

11:00 AM - 12:00 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.

Tue 5 Nov 2024

10:00 AM - 10:45 AM (45 minutes)

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

Wed 6 Nov 2024

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM (1 hour)

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.

Thu 7 Nov 2024

10:00 AM - 11:00 AM (1 hour)

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.

Fri 8 Nov 2024

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.

Mon 11 Nov 2024

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.

Tue 12 Nov 2024

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.

Tue 12 Nov 2024

3:00 PM - 4:00 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 13 Nov 2024

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.

Wed 13 Nov 2024

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM (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.

Fri 15 Nov 2024

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.

Tue 19 Nov 2024

7:30 AM - 8:00 AM (30 minutes)

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

Tue 19 Nov 2024

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.

Wed 20 Nov 2024

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.

Thu 21 Nov 2024

10:00 AM - 11:00 AM (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.

Mon 25 Nov 2024

9:00 AM - 9:30 AM (30 minutes)

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.

Tue 26 Nov 2024

7:00 AM - 7:30 AM (30 minutes)

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

Tue 26 Nov 2024

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 4 Dec 2024

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM (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.