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Westlaw New Zealand

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Westlaw New Zealand – Researching Legislation and Secondary Sources

This course will discuss how to find legislation and commentary efficiently.  Find current, historical and future legislation and identify the different commentary formats available. More course dates.

Trainer
Elizabeth Odom
Date & Time
Wed 27 Nov 2024, 10:00am
to
Wed 27 Nov 2024, 10:30am
NZDT
Duration
30 minutes

In this session learn how to: 

  • Locate Acts, Secondary Legislation (also known as Regulations) and Bills.
  • Browse and search a commentary publication
  • Quickly access an Act, or a section of an Act using the Global Search Bar
    • Locate historic and future legislation in the History Tab.
    • Identify the related Annotated and Discursive Commentary, Book Chapters and Case Law.
  • Conduct a topic-based search using plain language and/or terms and connectors.
    • Refine and filter search results.
    • Annotate, print, download, email and save content to a folder in Westlaw New Zealand.
    • Create a search alert to be notified by email of new search results. 
       

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.