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Westlaw New Zealand Guide - How to find and search case law

This guide outlines how to find case law by case citation, case title, citing legislation or by judicial definition. This guide also outlines different search methods using key words.

  • Find a case using the case citation
  • Find a case by title or party name 
  • Find cases which cite a section of legislation 
  • Find cases which judicially considers a word or phrase 
  • Search cases using Plain Language 
  • Search cases using Terms and Connectors 
  • Build your search using “Find documents that have” in the cases advanced search template.
  • Sort search results
  • Refine search results
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Westlaw New Zealand - Spotlight on Environment & Resources

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60 minutes
By Patricia Veen

This session focuses on the environment and resource management resources available in Westlaw New Zealand, including 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. More...

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Westlaw New Zealand Guide - Most Cited and Citing References Guide

When you are searching for Cases on Westlaw New Zealand, sorting the case results by Most Cited sorts case results by how often they have been cited in other documents on Westlaw.

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