Working with Trusts product getting reviewed (Westlaw (New Zealand))

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The Working with Trusts product is designed to provide support to lawyers and accountants who work in the non-family trusts field. Even though New Zealand seems to be the land of family trusts, there are other manifestations as well, as we know. This product is for those practitioners...

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Westlaw New Zealand - Cases Deep Dive Recorded Webinar (20 mins)

This recorded webinar will demonstrate how to efficiently locate case law by citation, party names, keywords, or by legal topic using the Key Number system as well as an overview of the case analysis...

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The importance of law reporting

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The Consultative Council of Australasian Law Reporting (CCALR) has initiated an education campaign on the Australian and New Zealand system of law reporting, with a new briefing paper for students and practitioners.

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Supreme Court of New Zealand - recent judgments: October 2022

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A summary of decisions delivered in October 2022 by the Supreme Court, available on Westlaw New Zealand.

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Employment status of four Uber drivers: declarations from the Employment Court

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In the ground-breaking judgment E Tū Inc v Rasier Operations BV [2022] NZEmpC 192 the Employment Court has made declarations that four drivers were employees of ridesharing and food delivery businesses in the Uber group.

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Spotlight on Practical Law New Zealand's ESG content

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ESG is an umbrella term for a broad range of environmental, social and governance factors that entities consider when making decisions and against which investors, consumers and other stakeholders can assess the standards of a corporation or other entity.

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Westlaw New Zealand - User preferences 

Your user preferences allow you to change options such as time zone, search results, and formatting for printed/downloaded/emailed documents. 

To access preferences, at the top of the homepage

  1. Click the user icon 
  2. Select preferences. 

Profile 

Update your time zone, preferred jurisdictions, and homepage content. 

  1. Time zone – Change the time zone to your local GMT. 
  2. Jurisdiction – Limit your search results to national and/or international jurisdictions. 
  3. Edit home page – Choose to display or hide News headlines.

Search 

Change your search options, display, and sort order. 

  1. Terms and Connectors search – choose to run searches with AND, OR, &, or "quotation marks" as advanced searches 
  2. Document display – show or hide highlighting of search terms in documents 
  3. Result list snippets – show more words before and after relevant highlighted search terms in the result list, e.g., an additional 20, 30, or 40 words on either side of your keywords 
  4. Default sort order – change the way different content types are sorted, e.g., Relevance, Date, Court, Table of Contents 

History 

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Features 

Show or hide relevant features in your search results. 

  • Best portion – Find relevant sentences in your document based on search term density and frequency. 
  • Law summaries – See common legal questions as you type in the search bar and summaries or specific passages that relate to those questions above your results list. 

Delivery 

Choose default delivery formatting, layout and style, and inclusions. 

  • Document format – RTF, Word, PDF, WordPerfect 
  • Multiple documents – Single merged file, multiple files (zip folder) 
  • Dual column layout for cases – Display cases with a dual column layout 
  • Footnotes – Inline or end of document 
  • Link colour – Blue or black 
  • Font size – Normal, large, and/or underlined 
  • Inclusions: 
  • Legislation text only for Legislation 
  • Only pages with terms 
  • Corresponding document with KeyCite lists 
  • Term highlighting 
  • KeyCite treatment – include negative treatments 
  • Original image and other version links – court-ready documents 
  • Expanded margin for notes 
  • Add a cover page to each request 
  • Headnotes 
  • Show full Key Number hierarchy

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Legal aid stats — COVID-19 dip in latest data

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As noted in Legal Services on Westlaw New Zealand, the latest "justice statistics" from the Ministry of Justice (updated every six months and now covering July 2012 to June 2022) indicate a decrease in legal aid grants/expenditure in the 2021/2022 financial year compared to 2020/2021.

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Supreme Court of New Zealand - recent judgments: September 2022

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A summary of decisions delivered in September 2022 by the Supreme Court, available on Westlaw New Zealand.

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Westlaw New Zealand - Sentencing Tracker Analytics Recorded Webinar (12:50mins)

This recorded webinar outlines how to use the Sentencing Tracker Analytics in Westlaw New Zealand to access specialised case summaries based on the type of offence, key sentencing factors, as well as...

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