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As the end of the
year approaches, we would like to thank you for your valuable feedback
throughout 2008 via emails, surveys, usability testing sessions,
contact with both your Account Managers and the Westlaw UK Product
Development team plus our annual Lawtel and Westlaw UK User Group
sessions.
Westlaw UK's success is driven by the team's close consultation with customers throughout its development programme. We appreciate the hard work, ideas and input you give to each project and your suggestions help shape our 2009 product development plans.
We
would
also like to take this opportunity to highlight some of the key content
and functionality added to the Westlaw
Inside
this issue:
§ Legislation Status Icons
§
Journals
PDF Library and Circulation List on Westlaw
UK
§
New
Common Law Library Titles
§
Chitty
on Contracts 30th Edition
§
Westlaw
UK content via RSS feeds
All cases PDFs are
machine-readable, allowing you to copy and paste text from the PDF, and
ensures Westlaw
PDF
versions of the full ICLR archive, dating back to 1865 were added to
Westlaw UK in early May. The PDF icon appears next to the citation when
browsing Law
Reports and Official Transcripts as well
as on the top right corner of full text
documents.
We are pleased to
advise that Green's Weekly Digest, providing up to 16 case digests a week
across all Scots Law subject areas, including essential coverage of key
legal decisions and sentencing, is now available on Westlaw
UK.
The Green's Weekly
Digest text appears in the body of the Case Analysis document. As with all
Case Analysis documents on Westlaw
Green's Weekly Digest is updated each Thursday to coincide with the publication of the weekly print issue. Comprehensive coverage is now available.
The Session Cases archive on Westlaw
The Session Cases database contains full text court decisions covering Session Cases, Court of Session (both Outer House and Inner House) and the High Court of Judiciary, as well as Scottish cases from the House of Lords and Privy Council.
Westlaw UK has provided market leading currency for legislation updates since the introduction of Daily Updating in December 2007. An overwhelming amount of positive feedback has been received including such comments as "We are now switching our legislation preference to Westlaw UK".
With the addition of Westlaw UK’s legislation status icons to the legislation PDFs in June 2008, you can now easily identify when an enactment is either partially in force, or not yet in force. Flags indicate where particular enactments do not form part of the current law in force.
More recently, in September we introduced Cumulative Amendments to Westlaw
With
the introduction of Cumulative Amendments earlier this year, each
version contains multiple footnotes detailing how the
provision has been amended over time from its
enactment.
Westlaw
UK Cumulative Amendments include:
-
updated text (using square brackets)
- amending provision
- in
force date of the amendment
Cumulative
Amendments are displayed both within the full text and within the PDF
of the entire Act.
As
recently communicated, we are pleased to announce that Statutory
Definitions,
across Westlaw
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Basic
Search
– by either searching for a definition across all legislation, or in
conjunction with Free Text and Title
fields. |
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Advanced
Search
- extends your options to include definitions within Historic Law
that has been superseded. |
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Overview
Document
– a glossary of terms defined within an Act or Statutory Instrument;
including cross-references to cases where a particular definition
has been given judicial
consideration. |
Throughout
2008, we have been busy adding new journals to Westlaw
New
journals added this year include:
Cambridge
Law Journal
World
Trade Review
Leiden
Journal of International Law
Legal
Information Management
Ecclesiastical
Law Journal
International
Review of Intellectual Property and Competition Law
Coventry
Law Journal
Edinburgh
Law Review
International
& Comparative Law Quarterly
Edinburgh
Law Review
International
and Comparative Law Quarterly
Back in May 2008, we launched our Journals PDF Library and Circulation List, again in response to customer feedback. The archive of machine-readable PDFs of 34 specialist Sweet & Maxwell journals dates back to 2003.
Having added the
Journals PDF Library
of Sweet & Maxwell journals, password users now have the ability to
create Journals Circulation Lists to deliver PDFs of the
latest journal issue, direct to the recipients' inbox.
Please note access to the Journals PDF Library and Circulation List is by subscription only.
A final word on
Journals, we also added footnote text boxes to Journals on Westlaw
UK. These can now easily be read alongside the main text of an
article with the addition of footnote text boxes.
Throughout the course of 2008, we have added 5 Common Law Library titles to Westlaw UK. This takes the overall total to 10, and includes:
- Benjamin’s
Sale of Goods
- Bowstead
& Reynolds on Agency
- Charlesworth
& Percy on Negligence
- Chitty
on Contracts
- Clerk & Lindsell on Torts
- Goff
& Jones The Law of Restitution (New for 2008)
- Jackson
& Powell on Professional Liability (New for 2008)
- McGregor
on Damages (New for 2008)
- Phipson
on Evidence (New for 2008)
Key features of the Common Law Library on Westlaw UK include the following enhanced content and functionality:
- Direct
links to consolidated primary law on Westlaw
- Main
work and supplement merged into one consolidated
version
- Navigation
tools from the book replicated online
- Westlaw
Dicey,
Morris & Collins The Conflict of Laws is also available on Westlaw
If you wish to subscribe to any of the above titles please contact your Sweet & Maxwell Account Manager to discuss subscription options.
The 30th edition of Chitty on Contracts has been available on Westlaw UK since 10 December.
The
new version of the White Book , with powerful functionality and enhanced
content only available via Westlaw UK was launched on Westlaw
Key
highlights include:
Merged
Version
The two annual supplements are merged into one
consolidated text, eliminating the need for
cross-checking.
Navigation
Tables
and indices from the book have been replicated online providing a familiar
environment.
Direct Links to Primary
Law
Direct links from references in the White Book
are available to up-to-date, consolidated primary law sources on Westlaw
Search and
Browse
Use the Advanced Search to locate a specific
paragraph, statutory provision or case cited.
Introduced
following customer feedback, Terms in Context was launched on Westlaw UK
in January 2008 and continues to receive positive feedback. When you
select to display Terms in
Context within your results list, the document which
includes the term is also now highlighted.
RSS
allows you to easily publish the latest Westlaw
RSS
feeds can be created from search results or by using the Create RSS feature
in the RSS directory. In addition, you can also create an RSS feed to
track a full text case or journal series.
The RSS feed functionality can be added to your username and password on request. Please contact the Westlaw UK Helpdesk customer.service@westlaw.co.uk for more information. Any user can view an RSS feed created by another user.
Earlier this year, we were very pleased to announce the introduction of Linkbuilder - new functionality to help you create your own direct links to content on Westlaw
The
Linkbuilder feature can be enabled for those with an individual Westlaw
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Finally, we would
like to take this opportunity to thank you once again for your continued
support and to wish you a very
happy and successful 2009.
Kind
regards,
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