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Introduction to Westlaw New Zealand – Government

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KEY LEARNING OUTCOMES

  • Locate Acts and Legislative Instruments and Bills
  • Locate Practice Areas of interest
  • Save key items to favourites
  • Understand how the global search bar works both for quick searching and more in depth searching
  • Locate and display historic and future legislation
  • Find secondary sources, including commentaries, for the legislation you’re interested in
  • Find case law using Westlaw’s Key Number system
  • Conduct a topic-based search using Natural Legal Language and Terms and Connectors
  • Refine and filter search results
  • Print, download, email

MCLE and CPD - If this educational activity is relevant to your immediate or long term needs in relation to your professional development and practice of the law then you may claim one "unit" for each hour of attendance.

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new Westlaw (New Zealand) - Legal Research Essentials for Students

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The session introduces new Westlaw (New Zealand) and focuses on navigating the site to locate legal content.

Learn how to use the Global Search to locate information quickly. Search techniques using both Natural Legal Language and Terms and Connectors to search for Legislation, Cases, Journals and Commentary will be discussed. Downloading and exporting content will also be covered.

Note: This is Westlaw New Zealand's new platform, check that your university has access.


MCLE and CPD - If this educational activity is relevant to your immediate or long term needs in relation to your professional development and practice of the law then you may claim one "unit" for each hour of attendance.

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new Westlaw (New Zealand) - Legal Research Essentials for Students

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The session introduces new Westlaw (New Zealand) and focuses on navigating the site to locate legal content.

Learn how to use the Global Search to locate information quickly. Search techniques using both Natural Legal Language and Terms and Connectors to search for Legislation, Cases, Journals and Commentary will be discussed. Downloading and exporting content will also be covered.

Note: This is Westlaw New Zealand's new platform, check that your university has access.


MCLE and CPD - If this educational activity is relevant to your immediate or long term needs in relation to your professional development and practice of the law then you may claim one "unit" for each hour of attendance.

Start Date
End Date

new Westlaw (New Zealand) - Legal Research Essentials for Students

Body

The session introduces new Westlaw (New Zealand) and focuses on navigating the site to locate legal content.

Learn how to use the Global Search to locate information quickly. Search techniques using both Natural Legal Language and Terms and Connectors to search for Legislation, Cases, Journals and Commentary will be discussed. Downloading and exporting content will also be covered.

Note: This is Westlaw New Zealand's new platform, check that your university has access.


MCLE and CPD - If this educational activity is relevant to your immediate or long term needs in relation to your professional development and practice of the law then you may claim one "unit" for each hour of attendance.

Start Date
End Date

new Westlaw (New Zealand) - Legal Research Essentials for Students

Body

The session introduces new Westlaw (New Zealand) and focuses on navigating the site to locate legal content.

Learn how to use the Global Search to locate information quickly. Search techniques using both Natural Legal Language and Terms and Connectors to search for Legislation, Cases, Journals and Commentary will be discussed. Downloading and exporting content will also be covered.

Note: This is Westlaw New Zealand's new platform, check that your university has access.


MCLE and CPD - If this educational activity is relevant to your immediate or long term needs in relation to your professional development and practice of the law then you may claim one "unit" for each hour of attendance.

Start Date
End Date

Westlaw New Zealand - Research Techniques

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This course will 

  • Explaining the advantages of Natural Legal Language (NLL) and how to refine or filter results
  • Introduce Best Portion feature, to quickly identify the relevant section of a document
  • How to structure a T&C search – query, identify keywords, locate T&Cs, build search string.
    • Refine or filter search results – search within a search
    • When to use an Advanced Search template.
  • How to print, download or save research to folders.
  • Create a WestClip search alert to be notified of future documents related to your search.

MCLE and CPD - If this educational activity is relevant to your immediate or long term needs in relation to your professional development and practice of the law then you may claim one "unit" for each hour of attendance.

Start Date
End Date

Westlaw New Zealand - Research Techniques

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This course will 

  • Explaining the advantages of Natural Legal Language (NLL) and how to refine or filter results
  • Introduce Best Portion feature, to quickly identify the relevant section of a document
  • How to structure a T&C search – query, identify keywords, locate T&Cs, build search string.
    • Refine or filter search results – search within a search
    • When to use an Advanced Search template.
  • How to print, download or save research to folders.
  • Create a WestClip search alert to be notified of future documents related to your search.

MCLE and CPD - If this educational activity is relevant to your immediate or long term needs in relation to your professional development and practice of the law then you may claim one "unit" for each hour of attendance.

Start Date
End Date

Westlaw New Zealand - Research Techniques

Body

This course will 

  • Explaining the advantages of Natural Legal Language (NLL) and how to refine or filter results
  • Introduce Best Portion feature, to quickly identify the relevant section of a document
  • How to structure a T&C search – query, identify keywords, locate T&Cs, build search string.
    • Refine or filter search results – search within a search
    • When to use an Advanced Search template.
  • How to print, download or save research to folders.
  • Create a WestClip search alert to be notified of future documents related to your search.

MCLE and CPD - If this educational activity is relevant to your immediate or long term needs in relation to your professional development and practice of the law then you may claim one "unit" for each hour of attendance.

Start Date
End Date

Westlaw New Zealand - Research Techniques

Body

This course will 

  • Explaining the advantages of Natural Legal Language (NLL) and how to refine or filter results
  • Introduce Best Portion feature, to quickly identify the relevant section of a document
  • How to structure a T&C search – query, identify keywords, locate T&Cs, build search string.
    • Refine or filter search results – search within a search
    • When to use an Advanced Search template.
  • How to print, download or save research to folders.
  • Create a WestClip search alert to be notified of future documents related to your search.

MCLE and CPD - If this educational activity is relevant to your immediate or long term needs in relation to your professional development and practice of the law then you may claim one "unit" for each hour of attendance.

Start Date
End Date

Westlaw New Zealand – Getting Started

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Learn how to locate what content is available in your subscription, confidently navigate the homepage, find a commentary publication, a case, legislation, as well as conduct a search on a point of law.

Click for more course dates.


MCLE and CPD - If this educational activity is relevant to your immediate or long term needs in relation to your professional development and practice of the law then you may claim one "unit" for each hour of attendance.

Start Date
End Date

Westlaw New Zealand – Getting Started

Body

Learn how to locate what content is available in your subscription, confidently navigate the homepage, find a commentary publication, a case, legislation, as well as conduct a search on a point of law.

Click for more course dates.


MCLE and CPD - If this educational activity is relevant to your immediate or long term needs in relation to your professional development and practice of the law then you may claim one "unit" for each hour of attendance.

Start Date
End Date

Westlaw New Zealand – Getting Started

Body

Learn how to locate what content is available in your subscription, confidently navigate the homepage, find a commentary publication, a case, legislation, as well as conduct a search on a point of law.

Click for more course dates.


MCLE and CPD - If this educational activity is relevant to your immediate or long term needs in relation to your professional development and practice of the law then you may claim one "unit" for each hour of attendance.

Start Date
End Date

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