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	WESTLAW UK - WHAT'S NEW MAY 2009 Welcome to the latest issue of Westlaw UK - What's New On Friday 15 May you will notice a number of substantial amends and enhancements to Westlaw UK. These are all subject to successful testing and we will update you on go live. These developments will enable you to… • Search Westlaw UK Crime and Westlaw UK Scots Law via our new interface • Better and more easily edit and manage your alerts • Start receiving alerts related to legislation • Delve further into the Common Law Library • Stay up to date with the very latest legal developments, every day
	Search Westlaw UK Crime and Westlaw UK Scots Law via our  new and improved interface Westlaw UK Crime and Westlaw UK Scots Law are the first of the Westlaw UK practice area services to be migrated onto the new platform. This enhancement enables you to limit the scope of your research to content contained within Westlaw UK Crime or Westlaw UK Scots Law using a drop-down menu. NAVIGATING BETWEEN YOUR WESTLAW UK SERVICES You will notice that we have changed the Westlaw International link in the top toolbar to Services. This is where you will be able to navigate between Westlaw UK, Westlaw International and the practice area services contained within your subscription. The content sets within your subscription will appear as live links. A drop down list of services that you subscribe to will appear. Simply click on the service you wish to use and you will be taken to the relevant Homepage. Once again, please note that the link to Westlaw International is now under the Services link. SETTING YOUR DEFAULT HOME PAGE To select your default Homepage click Settings & Tools > Options> Default Service This will now be your homepage each time you log in to Westlaw UK. Back to top
	Edit and manage your alerts  We are very pleased to be introducing a number of key enhancements to Westlaw UK alerts. You can now edit the content of an alert created either from a search or from the Create Alert screen. EDITING AN ALERT CREATED FROM A SEARCH Click the Alerts link on the top navigation bar. Select the alert you wish to edit from the Alerts List. Click Edit and you will see the search template from which your original alert was created. The information you entered when you created the alert will also display. From here you can edit the search terms, run the search and save your changes by clicking Save as Alert. REPLACING AND CREATING ALERTS You can now replace an existing alert or create a new alert. EDIT AN ALERT CREATED FROM CREATE AN ALERT PAGE Select the alert you wish to edit from the Alerts List and click Edit. You will be taken to the Create Alert screen where the information you entered when you originally set up for the alert will display. Here you can edit both the content type and subject areas included in your alert. When you save the alert you will be given the option to overwrite an existing alert or create a new one. This functionality will be available for alerts created from 15 May 2009. Any alerts created before this date will have the Manage link active. SAVED SEARCH Your option to create a Saved Search has been added to the Alerts tab as a notification method. To access any of your existing saved searches, select Alerts from the top toolbar and then click Run Search. When this notification option is chosen the Frequency, Email Address, File Format and IP Authentication options are greyed out.  Back to top
	Start receiving alerts related to legislation  You now have the option of creating alerts related to legislation. Searches will return individual provisions of Acts and SIs. To create an alert, run a legislation search and simply click Save as Alert. Alternatively, you can create a legislation alert from the Create a New Alert page, where Legislation has now been added as a content type. Alert results will be returned if the subjects selected occur as a principal or associated subject in new documents loaded to Westlaw UK. RSS FEEDS It’s also now possible to create an RSS feed on legislation from either a search or from the Create an RSS feed page. Back to top
	Delve further into the Common Law Library, with the addition of  the new supplement to Bowstead & Reynolds on Agency We are also delighted to announce that the 2nd supplement of Bowstead & Reynolds on Agency has now been incorporated into the main work on Westlaw UK. First published in 1896, Bowstead & Reynolds on Agency has established itself as the leading authority on this highly complex area of commercial law. All the titles within Sweet & Maxwell’s Common Law Library are now available on Westlaw UK: Arlidge, Eady & Smith on Contempt  Benjamin's Sale of Goods  Bowstead & Reynolds on Agency  Charlesworth & Percy on Negligence  Chitty on Contracts  Clerk & Lindsell on Torts Gatley on Libel and Slander  Goff & Jones: The Law of Restitution  Jackson & Powell on Professional Liability  McGregor on Damages  Phipson on Evidence Dicey, Morris & Collins on the Conflict of Laws is also available on Westlaw UK. Westlaw UK takes the content and applies powerful functionality, including: 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 Please note, the above titles are available as add-ons to your Westlaw UK subscription. For further details or subscription options please contact your account manager to discuss. Back to top
	Stay up to date with the very latest legal developments,   every 15 minutes We are delighted to announce that Current Awareness on Westlaw UK is now updated every 15 minutes. Current Awareness is the first place to find details of the latest legislation, cases, journals, legal developments and information, updated every 15 minutes from 8am to 6pm throughout the day every working day.  The Current Awareness team monitors over 600 sources in order to provide abstracts of material releavant to our customers, including summaries of: The most important cases selected by case specialists Today’s legislation (Acts, Bills, and Statutory Instruments from all UK jurisdictions) Official material and government publications, including consultation documents, green papers, white papers, reports and press releases Key developments from over 450 leading Legal Journals European case law, legislation, press releases and information Non-governmental publications of legal significance e.g. guidance published by professional bodies Articles of legal and regulatory significance from the leading UK broadsheet newspapers Back to top
	If you have any questions, comments or feedback on the above changes please contact the Westlaw UK Customer Support Team on 0800 028 2200 or email customer.service@westlaw.co.uk. Back to top
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