Sweet & Maxwell takes your legal research online with Westlaw UK Westlaw UK gives you access to vast but easily searchable databases of case law, legislation, news, journals, commentary, current awareness alerts and EU legal materials. Combined with a user-friendly interface, it ensures that your searches are easy to perform and you can find the legal information you need to make the difference.
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CASES
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Easy-to-use and intuitive search functionality. Search with free text, by subject, keyword, party names and citation
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Over 350,000 case reports and transcripts dating back to 1220
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Term Defined search allows you to search across cases, legislation and journals for the definition of a legal phrase. Editorially selected and continually updated
Case law from some of the UK’s most renowned reporting series such as the ICLR, Weekly Law Reports and Sweet & Maxwell Law Reports
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Navigation options, such as recent documents viewed and research trail ensure ease of use
All of the report series on Westlaw UK are available to download in PDF
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My Folders lets you store and organise all your legal research within Westlaw UK for as long as you need it
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Regional, national and international news and business updates
Citations, case analysis with digests, official transcripts and alternative case reports are provided for all key law series that are not available on Westlaw UK including the All England Law Report Series
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Current awareness updated every 15 minutes
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Set up alerts, either by creating your own or choosing from over 100 pre-selected subjects
A court reporting policy focused on selective, quality reporting of key extempore decisions, at speed, by a qualified court reporting team
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All features compatible with tablet and mobile devices
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Support from a dedicated and qualified Customer Support team available all day every day
Case Analysis documents are designed specifically for online research and let you link to a digest of the case, information on where it was reported, the appellate history and status, cases that are related to it, the cases that were cited, cases that cite the case, the legislation that was cited, plus any journal articles or books that reference it
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Status icons show if a case has received positive, mixed or negative treatment, so you can quickly assess whether it is good law
LEGISLATION •
Consolidated legislation, updated daily and dating back to 1267 for Acts, 1948 for SIs
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Historical and prospective versions let you see how the law looked in the past and how it will look in the future
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PDF versions of consolidated legislation, complete with status icons and easy-to-navigate bookmarks
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Legislation Analysis documents provide all information pertinent to a provision. Link seamlessly to the enabling Act, table of amendments, commencement, extent, modifications, jurisdictional view, SIs made under it, legislation citing, all cases citing, significant cases citing, plus books and journal articles that reference it
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Overview documents designed for online research provide whole Act/SI summaries and include prospective law, commencement, all legislation citing, all SIs enabled under the legislation, any EU law implemented by it and all journal articles that refer to the document as a whole Arrangement of Act/SI documents allow you to easily navigate to any provision, part or schedule from one document, and to view, at a glance, the status of all provisions in the Act/SI Annotated Statutes give you the most authoritative and up-to-date guidance on the law as it develops through new legislation and judicial interpretation
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BOOKS & LOOSELEAFS ONLINE •
The Sweet & Maxwell content you know and trust online with added functionality
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Analytical commentary from over 100 market-leading titles including the entire Common Law Library, Archbold, Chitty and The White Book
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Pop-up footnote boxes, allow you to simultaneously view the main text and related references
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Enhanced Tables of Content and Indexes with descriptive pop up boxes prevent unnecessary clicking into irrelevant content
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Index Term search identifies multiple search term entries and groups them in context, giving you access to all the relevant content on a chosen search term
JOURNALS •
Easy to use search and browse functionality across the greatest number of relevant full text journals available online
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Journal collections from our own Sweet & Maxwell library, plus Cambridge University Press and many more
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All the key articles from over 800 of the UK and Europe’s leading legal journals are listed in the Legal Journals Index – a journals abstract service unique to Westlaw UK
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Journals Circulation List – unique to Westlaw UK, allows whole journals to be emailed to recipients electronically saving time in the distribution of journals to multiple end users
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Access to the texts available anytime, anywhere - you just need an internet connection