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WELCOME TO THE DECEMBER
EDITION
OF WESTLAW UK WHAT'S NEW
Below are details of five
more full-text journals that have been added to Westlaw
UK.
You’ll also find
information on new editions and new supplements to the Common
Law Library and details on the 2010 edition of Archbold:
Criminal Pleading, Evidence & Practice, which is
now available to use on Westlaw UK.
As well as that, there’s
also an introduction to another great enhancement to our
legislation service, Prospective Law, which is due to launch
in January 2010.
Thank you very much to
all of you who took part in our Mobile Usage Survey. Your
responses are incredibly valuable to us and we hope to act on
some of your thoughts and comments soon. Congratulations to
Diane Raper, who was the lucky winner of the iPod
Touch.
Best
wishes,
The Westlaw UK
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EXPERT ANALYSIS WITH THE ADDITION OF NEW
JOURNALS
ARCHBOLD
2010 NOW ON WESTLAW UK
NEW
EDITION OF MCGREGOR ON
DAMAGES
NEW
SUPPLEMENT TO CLERK & LINDSELL ON TORT
NEW
SUPPLEMENT TO ARLIDGE, EADY & SMITH ON CONTEMPT
PROSPECTIVE
LAW -
SEE TOMORROW'S LEGISLATION, TODAY
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MORE EXPERT ANALYSIS WHENEVER YOU
NEED IT
We are
pleased to announce the addition of five further full-text
journals to Westlaw UK.
International Business Law
Journal
Published by Sweet & Maxwell, this
journal is now available in full text. The journal presents
expert articles and commentary on every aspect of
international business law.
Written by practitioners from across the world, the
journal draws together the opinion of experts showing how
company, contract, investment, taxation and financial law, as
well as arbitral decisions, impact on international business.
The journal also focuses on the application of
international conventions and the development of new rules for
international economic organisations. The archive commences in
1986 and will be rolled out over the next few months.
Coverage on Westlaw UK starts from
1995.
Res Publica: a Journal of Legal, Moral and Social
Philosophy
Published by Springer, this journal is also now available
in full text. This is an interdisciplinary publication
concerned with the philosophical analysis of moral, political,
social and legal issues. It provides a forum for discussion of
theoretical issues; a public arena for voicing matters of
practical concern and a vehicle for the interconnected
questions of morality, politics, law and society and the
relation of theory to practice.
The journal publishes articles and reviews essays which are
both philosophically rigorous and accessible to a wide range
of academics and professionals. Res Publica publishes the work
of established scholars, as well as those at the beginning of
their careers, in both Western and non-Western settings.
Coverage on Westlaw UK starts from 1997.
COMING SOON...
The WIPO Journal: Analysis
and Debate of Intellectual Property Issues
This new journal, published in association with WIPO and
Thomson Reuters, will be available in full text from
30 December 2009. This journal presents an
exciting new forum for debating the key issues affecting
intellectual property throughout the world. It offers an
unbiased examination of how the issues affect practice from an
interdisciplinary perspective.
Coverage on Westlaw UK starts with Issue 1 from December
2009.
To find out more visit: www.sweetandmaxwell.co.uk/wipojournal
Law and
Philosophy
Published by Springer, this
journal will be available in full text from 30
December 2009. Law and Philosophy serves as a forum
for the publication of work in law and philosophy that is of
common interest to individuals in the disciplines of
jurisprudence and legal philosophy. The journal publishes
articles that use all approaches in both fields. In addition,
it publishes work in any of the major legal traditions,
including common law, civil law, and the socialist
tradition.
Coverage on Westlaw UK starts
from 1997.
The European Journal of
Law and Economics
Published by Springer
Publishing, this journal will be available in full text from
30 December 2009. The journal provides
readers with high quality and empirical research in law and
economics. It publishes analytical studies on the impact of
legal interventions into economic processes by legislators,
courts and regulatory agencies.
There is an emphasis on European
Community law and the comparative analysis of legal structures
and legal problem solutions in member states of the European
Community. The Journal also publishes important developments
and topics in law and economic analysis which is documented
and examined in special issues dedicated to that
subject.
Coverage on Westlaw UK starts
from 1997.
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GET THE LATEST EDITION OF ARCHBOLD ON
YOUR DESKTOP
We are pleased to
announce that the 2010 edition of Archbold: Criminal
Pleading, Evidence & Practice is now available on
Westlaw UK.
For over 180 years
Archbold has been supporting judges, barristers and
practitioners with authoritative and comprehensive coverage of
the practice and procedure of the Crown Court.
Archbold 2010 has
been fully revised and updated with recent important changes
in legislation and case law and also includes new SIs and
Practice Directions.
More than just having
a replica of the book online, Westlaw UK adds powerful tools
that make finding the information you need quicker and easier.
It includes:
• Direct links to consolidated
primary law on Westlaw UK
• Main work and future
supplements merged into one consolidated version
•
Navigation tools from the book replicated online
•
Westlaw UK's intuitive functionality, enabling individual or
multiple search results to be printed,
downloaded or emailed to colleagues
The first supplement
to this new edition will be available on Westlaw UK
shortly.
If you would like to
add Archbold to your subscription, please contact either your
Account Manager or the Westlaw UK
Customer Support Team on 0800 028
2200 or customer.service@westlaw.co.uk
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CONSULT THE
NEW EDITION OF McGREGOR ON DAMAGES
The
new 18th edition of McGregor on Damages is
now available on Westlaw UK. The standard work and leading
authority on the law of damages for nearly 150 years, the
latest edition has been brought fully up to date with all
developments in this field and includes:
• Development
and lack of it, in restitutionary damages: Severn
Trent, CA 2004; WWF, CA
2007;
Devenish, CA 2008
• Remoteness in
contract damages: unexpected new departure in HL, reversing
unanimous CA,
in The Achilleas,
(Transfield Shipping v Mercator Shipping),
2008
• Whether a
widow’s claim is barred by her husband’s suicide resulting
from the tortuous
accident: Corr, HL
2008
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KEEP UP TO DATE WITH TORT
LAW
The 4th supplement to the 19th
edition of Clerk & Lindsell on Tort is
now available on Westlaw UK. Fully integrated into the main
text, the new supplement takes account of all the latest key
case law including:
• Mitchell
v Glasgow City Council on the duty owed by a local
authority providing social housing
and acting
in accordance with statutory powers to a tenant to warn that
another tenant had
threatened to kill him
(held that there was no duty to prevent harm being done by a
third party)
• Savage v
South Essex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust on the duty
owed by a public
authority to a patient
detained in hospital under art. 2 of the European Convention
on Human
Rights
• Smith v
Northamptonshire County Council and Spencer-Franks v
Kellog-Brown & Root Ltd on
the meaning of
"work equipment" within the Provision and Use of Work
Equipment Regulations
1998
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GET THE
LATEST INFORMATION ON CONTEMPT
The 2nd supplement to
the 3rd edition of Arlidge, Eady & Smith on
Contempt is also now available on Westlaw
UK.
Integrated into the
main text, this new supplement includes updates on all the
latest developments in this area of the law
including:
• Sinclair
v HMA and R v Thakrar on the difficulties of guaranteeing
the right to a fair trial in
light of
the increasing availability of prejudicial material on the
internet
• C Plc v
P (Attorney-General intervening) on the borderline
between civil contempt and criminal
contempt
in its application to matters such as the privilege against
self-incrimination
• The openness
of proceedings in the family courts and the attempts to give
greater media
access to these proceedings, and
the new Family Proceedings Rules 2009
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SEE
TOMORROW’S LEGISLATION, TODAY
We
are pleased to announce that in January 2010, we will be
launching a new enhancement to our legislation service –
Prospective Law.
This new enhancement
will allow you to read provisions as they will look in the
future without the need to cross-reference the amending
provisions.
Providing a glimpse
into the future, this valuable tool will allow you to see how
the law is due to change, when it is due to change, and what
impact it may have on the way you work.
Watch this
space!
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If you have any questions please feel free to
contact the Westlaw UK Customer Support Team
on 0800 028 2200 or email customer.service@westlaw.co.uk
Best wishes,
The Westlaw UK
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