2011 Westlaw UK Round-Up Brochure

WESTLAW UK 2011 ROUND-UP A YEAR FOR YOU

WELL, WE MADE IT. 2011 is now done and dusted and what a year it was.

When we think back over the year, one word seems to come to mind… BIG! Last year we saw some big enhancements across Cases, Legislation, Journals, Books and EU as well as some big changes to help make your research that little bit easier.

LAST YEAR WE ADDED

37,000 JOURNAL ARTICLES AS WELL AS

8,588 CASES. 40 BOOKS WERE PUT ONLINE ALONG WITH 7 LOOSELEAFS. WE UPLOADED ANOTHER

9 NEW JOURNALS FOR YOU

We hope these numbers contributed to saving you some much needed time and energy when researching throughout 2011.

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Please take some time to take a look through how we’ve enhanced the service in a little bit more detail. And make sure you check out our 2011 round-up video on YouTube.

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None of these enhancements would have been possible without your feedback and continued support and we thank you for that.

But as always, we’re not resting on our laurels, with this year looking to be busier than ever, we are excited about the opportunities that 2012 will bring.

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AND FINISHED OFF WITH

3 NEW LAW REPORT SERIES.

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CASES LEGISLATION JOURNALS BOOKS EU OTHER KEY ENHANCEMENTS COMING SOON

It was a big year for cases with over 8,500 cases added to Westlaw UK in 2011. Other case related enhancements for the year include:

ENGLISH REPORTS IN PDF We’re pleased to let you know that all of the English Reports are now available in PDF, so your days of photocopying printed versions to cite in court will be a thing of the past.

APPEAL OUTSTANDING ICON FOR CASES

ENHANCEMENTS TO THE CASE ANALYSIS DOCUMENTS

The Appeal Outstanding icon appears next to your search results and at the top of case documents so that you can instantly tell the status of your case.

Significant Legislation Cited

You can find the icon alongside any existing status icon, but it will be removed once there is an outcome to the appeal.

As with all icons, you just need to hover your cursor over it to be reminded of its meaning.

In 2011 we made two enhancements to the Case Analysis documents.

The first was the addition of a new link in the left hand menu for Significant Legislation Cited, which have been specially picked out by our editorial team.

There will also be active links to any EU legislation referred to in a case.

APPEAL STATUS TRACKER Appeal Status Tracker enables you to track cases on appeal to the Court of Appeal, Civil Division or to the Supreme Court. This means no more phone calls to the court to check the status of your cases.

CASES

Westlaw UK currently track appeals in progress from the lower courts to the Court of Appeal and Supreme Court as well as applications for permission to appeal from lower courts to the Supreme Court.

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DEFINITION SEARCHING ACROSS CONTENT

JURISDICTIONAL VIEW

Last year we also added a new section for Appellate History & Status.

We also added a new search option to the Cases and Journals pages.

Within this section you can find the direct, reported progress of the decision through to appeal, with cases displayed in chronological order.

You now have the ability to search for legal terms and phrases that have been defined in cases and journal articles.

The Jurisdictional View feature on Westlaw UK allows you to know instantly whether a provision is relevant to your jurisdiction and is a clear indicator of when the text of a provision varies depending on jurisdictions.

Once the appeal judgment has been received it will be published on Westlaw UK with the citations replacing the appeal status entry.

This builds on the Statutory Definition search option that currently sits on the Legislation page.

You can also see the information appear in the Graphical History chart, where available.

LEGISLATION

Appeal History & Status

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The Browse section of the legislation database is split up according to jurisdictions: UK, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, and then broken down into the type of legislation available in that region.

You also have the option to navigate between jurisdictions. When looking at a piece of legislation where a provision varies depending on the jurisdiction, an information message is displayed at the top of your document. The message indicates the presence of different versions.

NORTHERN IRELAND LEGISLATION

ADDITIONAL JOURNALS TO SEARCH

Last year we enhanced Legislation PDFs. Every PDF of legislation now has bookmarks, allowing you to clearly see the structure of an Act or SI.

Westlaw UK now offers fully consolidated Northern Ireland legislation, updated daily.

Last year we added many new journals to Westlaw UK, taking the total number available in full-text to well over 100. The additions for this year have been:

• Browse within the bookmarks to the provision you need and click on the title to link to it within the PDF • Table of contents with active links is displayed at the end of the document

Northern Ireland legislation is available on the Westlaw UK Legislation contents page, as well as being included in search results and individual documents.

European Constitutional Law Review Coverage on Westlaw UK begins with 2005

• Status icons within the PDF show you the status of each provision

Coverage includes:

• Table of Modifications shows which part of the Act or SI have been modified and by which piece of legislation

Hague Journal on the Rule of Law Coverage on Westlaw UK begins with 2009

Westminster Enactments

• Public, General and Local Acts (Since 2000) • Statutory Instruments (Since 2000) Northern Ireland Assembly Enactments

• Acts of the Northern Ireland Assembly (Since 2000) • Northern Ireland Orders in Council (Since 2000) • Northern Ireland Statutory Rules (Since 2000)

JOURNALS

ENHANCED LEGISLATION PDFS

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International Journal of Cultural Property Coverage on Westlaw UK begins with 2005 International Journal of Law in Context Coverage on Westlaw UK begins with 2005 Legal Theory Coverage on Westlaw UK begins with 2005 Scottish Planning and Environmental Law Journal Coverage on Westlaw UK begins with 1993 The European Business Organization Law Review Coverage on Westlaw UK begins with 2000 The Irish Jurist Coverage on Westlaw UK begins with 2000 The Journal of African Law Coverage on Westlaw UK begins with 2005

EU LAW DOCUMENTS ENHANCED

To grow is to evolve, innovate, learn and prosper.

Last year we also enhanced the documents within the EU section.

Last year we expanded our online library, growing our existing list of 28 titles to over 70 books and looseleafs and we did it all in just 6 months.

Following feedback from many of you, PDF icons now no longer appear within the text of documents.

The best thing is that we plan to continue growing as you grow, therefore continuing to offer you unprecedented online access to some of the most important insights from the industry’s leading minds.

You can now download EU PDFs from the top right-hand corner of the screen, as you do with other PDF documents on Westlaw UK.

Getting the Deal Through (GTDT) is a suite of multi-jurisdictional books where each book focuses on a specific practice area. The titles, updated on an annual cycle, provide international guidance to regulations in 46 practice areas and more than 150 jurisdictions.

This is now available to Westlaw UK subscribers as part of their existing subscription. GTDT is not part of subscriptions for Crime PAS and Scots PAS customers or for Looseleaf Standalone customers.

The GTDT series is primarily aimed at international legal practitioners who are looking to analyse overseas jurisdictions and optimise the value of commercial deals abroad.

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GETTING THE DEAL THROUGH

OTHER KEY ENHANCEMENTS

BOOKS AND LOOSELEAFS

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MY FOLDERS

MY WESTLAW UK

My Folders is a brand new enhancement that allows you as a current subscriber of Westlaw UK to organise your research like never before.

If you access Westlaw UK through IP authentication (i.e. without logging in) or Athens or Shibboleth, then you have the ability to create your own personal profile on the service.

My Folders is part of your Westlaw UK subscription, but please note however, it is only available for customers who log in to Westlaw UK with a username and password, due to the research stored being personal to each user.

• Store and organise all your legal research on Westlaw UK • Access previous research documents quickly, so you can pick up where you left off • Tag documents and add them to a selected folder with minimal clicks • Add case reports, analysis documents, Arrangements of Acts, pages from books, individual documents from search results, PDFs, and any other part of your research to My Folders • Keep research in My Folders for as long as you need it and store frequentlyreferred-to documents for easy access • Email, download and print full contents of folders, or individual documents easily, in the order you want • Access My Folders in or out of the office • Any research stored in My Folders are links to the document on Westlaw UK, therefore always the most up to date will be downloaded

Get access to personalised features such as Alerts, RSS Feeds, the Research Trail, and Journal PDFs and Circulation Lists.

Whether you’re a professional or an academic, you can now customise the way that you interact with Westlaw UK.

REFRESHED USER INTERFACE

IMAGES IN DOCUMENTS

LINKS FROM PLC TO WESTLAW UK

Last year Westlaw UK undertook a facelift with the user interface getting a bit of a refresh. We tidied up a few sections so that it’s even easier for you to use and making it a little more aesthetically pleasing.

One of the more visual enhancements of the year was that of viewing images within documents.

We are constantly looking to help the legal system function better.

For that to happen, you need to be able to get the information you need quickly and easily.

We updated the icons as well as the colour of our links from red to blue to give a fresher feel to the service and making it easier for you to navigate, search and find.

Any image that is published within a case report or journal article is now shown in line with the text of that document on Westlaw UK. You can now save, print and e-mail the document with all images appearing as they should within the text, and not as separate documents.

This means you don’t have to worry about printing them separately and then having to re-sort the pages to insert the image in the correct place.

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In 2011 we were pleased to announce the linking of legislation references in PLC’s continuously maintained content to the correlating documents in Westlaw UK. Giving you new possibilities, new opportunities and new choices.

This linking is now complete and available to all Westlaw UK customers who subscribe to PLC. • Arbitration

• Dispute resolution

• Property

• Financial services

• Commercial

• Environment

• Public sector

• IPIT

• Competition

• Pensions

• Employment

• Restructuring

• Construction

• Private Client

• Finance

• Share Schemes

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COMING SOON

2012 ENHANCEMENTS As we mentioned 2012 is going to be another busy year.

Over the next 12 months you can expect to see plenty more enhancements including: • Status check • Filtering • Enhanced search and alerts • Additional books, journals and looseleafs

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