Advantages of Westlaw

Effortlessly tailor your search to be general or more specific. Westlaw is the only legal research database that serves the best and most relevant results at the top of the results pane. Using our Advanced Search feature, you can narrow down to case name or the provision number of an act.

Westlaw allows users to save your results within the platform, as well as externally, for quicker access later. Now you can create an unlimited amount of customised databases of documents organized by issue, matter, or client.

Highlight text within a document online as you do with print materials, improving productivity and enabling you to easily find relevant text. Type and attach your own personal research notes on a document for future reference, or make a note to yourself to follow up on later. In addition, you can choose to include your annotations or omit them for a clean copy when you download or email documents to yourself, staff or clients. 

Alerts are the ideal way for you to stay informed on just about everything happening in the legal market. And because you’re in control of the content there won’t be any spam. Sit back and let cases come to you.

Once you have found the information that you need simply print, download or email it at your convenience. The optimised sharing function is available on all documents and search results in all sections of Westlaw.

Be the expert your clients need you to be and easily confirm the currency and good law status of cases, statutes, regulations, or administrative decisions with the Westlaw Citator. The Citator feature brings forth the qualitative aspects of cases and statutes. Our Citator indicates whether or not the law in a particular case has been followed, modified, or overruled in subsequent cases.