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Westlaw New Zealand

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Westlaw New Zealand - Spotlight on Commercial Law

This session focuses on the topic of Commercial Law.  Westlaw's resources include 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.
 

Trainer
Elizabeth Odom
Date & Time
Tue 25 Feb 2025, 10:00am
to
Tue 25 Feb 2025, 11:00am
NZDT
Duration
60 minutes

Key content includes:

  • Commentary available in Gault on Commercial Law, Fair Trading, Company and Securities Law, as well as A to Z titles: Commercial Law - Competition, Commercial Law - eCommerce ,Commercial Law - Sale of Goods, Commercial Law - Securities
  • Case law on a point of law, 
  • Alert 24 – Commercial and Alert 24 Company and Securities

Learning Outcomes  

At the end of the session participants will be able to:  

  • Navigate the home page and understand the depth of accessible content  
  • Locate a document, commentary publication or case using the global search bar  
  • Natural Legal Language (NLL) Search  - Explain the advantages of 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 – discuss benefits 
  • Print, Download or Save to folders.  
  • Create a 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.