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Books on Westlaw New Zealand

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Did you know that there are a wide range legal books available on Westlaw?  This content, previously classified as A-Z of New Zealand Law, is now labelled ‘Books’ in Westlaw, making individual titles easy to locate. 

Individual book titles can be accessed via:

  1. The Books link located under the Content Types tab:
  1. A Practice area under the Practice area tab, e.g. Environment & Resource Practice area:
  1. By typing a Book name into the search bar and selecting it from the pop up:

Information in Books is now easy to locate via browsing or searching. 

When browsing a book title, content is grouped into chapters, reflecting the chapters in the hardcopy version of the book.  Simply drill down using the plus icons to locate the required information.

You can also take advantage of Westlaw’s Natural Language or Terms & Connectors search functionality to:

  1. Search across all titles:
  1. Or search across an individual book title:

To view the scope of a book title including an overview of the content, the last publication date, author information and citation formatting, click the information icon available when viewing a book’s Table of Contents. 

Author information and last review date can also be found at the top of each section in a book. 

Note:  Books on Westlaw New Zealand include updates by the Author between editions.

Book titles are subscription dependent, however, content in books outside of your subscription may be viewed on a pay per view basis.  Books or documents within books labelled “Out of Plan” mean they are not included in your subscription and charges will be incurred if a document is viewed.

Allison.Patrick
By Allison Patrick
NZ Training Specialist

Allison is an experienced Training Specialist, with over 10 years training experience, 8 of those working in the Legal & Tax publishing industry.  Before becoming a trainer, Allison worked as a teacher after obtaining her Masters of Teaching degree.

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