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Exclusive Content

Currency Tools

§          The Canadian Abridgment Online

§          Carswell Law Reports

§          Rules Concordance

§          The Canadian Encyclopedic Digest Online

§          Authoritative Commentary

§          Precedent Documents on Litigator

§          Abridgment eDigests

§          WestClip®

§          Newsletters

§          Recently Added Treatments

Online Legal Research Services

Productivity Tools

§          Sources

§          International Resources

 

Powerful Functionality

§          Abridgment Classification Linking

§          Customized Templates

§          Global Searching

§          Holistic Approach

§          Integration

§          Limiting Citing References

§          Link Viewer

§          Locate

§          Reduced Searching Time

§          Reporting System

§          Research Trail

§          Search or Browse Table of Contents

§          Starting Points

§          Unified Approach

§          Various Search Methods

§          Words & Phrases

§          Words Around Hits

§          Workflow Solutions

§          KeyCite Canada

§          CiteLink Canada

§          Graphical KeyCite

§          Rules Concordance

Superior Support

§          Information Consultants

§          Training Options

§          Research Support

§          Technical Support

 

 

 

Sources

A suite of online legal research services that can be used together or separately to give you the entire perspective you need for a complete research solution.

·     Fit your specific practice area requirements: LawSource®, CriminalSource®, Estates&TrustsSource®,  FamilySource®, InsolvencySource®, IPSource®, and SecuritiesSource®.

·     Facilitate the most productive and reliable legal research.

·     Contain Canada’s premier, exclusive and comprehensive collections of case law, legislation, authored commentary and other legal resources, as well as current news articles and business information.

·     Provide single password access to the most valuable information resources from around the world.

 

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Litigator

·     The online workflow solution contains Canada’s largest collection of online litigation resources.

·     Provides you with the resources and tools you need to present a polished case—Precedent Galleries, Quantums, Expert Directory, Profiler, Practice Guides, Commentary and Current Awareness, and Lawyer Directory

·     Provides you with access thousands of actual court documents right from your desktop

·     Reduces many of your most time-consuming tasks to a few clicks of the mouse

 

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Authoritative Commentary

·     Leverage content written by an expert in the field.

·     Review it critically, read the cases that have lead the author to his or her conclusions.

 

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KeyCite Canada

 

Canada’s premier case citator and the only complete legislative citator.

 

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Graphical KeyCite

 

A visual display of how a case has moved through the court system.

·     Provides you with the fastest way to understand the direct history of a case.

·     Takes you to a “picture” of the direct case history all in one screen with one click and visually depicts how a case has moved through the court system.

·     Lets you roll over a procedural box for a closer look at the case title and cite information.

·     Clearly labels the case you KeyCited. Cited cases and court documents are linked directly to Westlaw Canada.

 

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KeyCite Alert

 

The exclusive currency service allows you to track legislation, cases, and rules.

·     Tells you right away and only if there has been a development for a particular case and/or legislation.

·     Alerts you, if a case you are tracking is no longer good law, or if a case, statute or rule has been interpreted or discussed in a new case or commentary.

·     Delivers results whenever and wherever you want, including e-mail, fax, and printer or wireless devices. 

 

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WestClip

 

The exclusive currency service notifies you of all relevant documents that deal with an issue of special interest to you.

·     Enables automated searching of case law, legislation, commentary, journals, law reviews, news and media outlets on thousands of Westlaw Canada and Westlaw databases.

·     Delivers results whenever and wherever you want, including e-mail, fax, and printer or wireless devices. 

 

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Newsletters

Access authoritative expert commentary for specific practice areas with concise weekly newsletters.

 

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Recently Addedd Treatments

Stay current with new cases added to WestlaweCARSWELL, referencing your search, that are immediately flagged under negative treatments.

 

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CiteLink Canada

A workflow tool that automatically finds legal citations in your word-processing documents, creates links to the full text of each document on Westlaw Canada while creating a table of authorities.

 

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Holistic Approach

Westlaw Canada is not case law driven. You can automatically complete research thoroughly with our Finding Tools (The Canadian Abridgment) and commentary (Canadian Encyclopedic Digest, case articles, journals, law reviews, and authoritative commentary), merged with Primary law and precedents.

Integration

Search with precision and accuracy through seamlessly integrated information—our focus is not aggregation.

 

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Limiting Citing References

Quickly hone in on the most pertinent citing references by limiting to jurisdiction, date, court level or locate within text.

 

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Link Viewer

Preview a document without losing your point of reference.

 

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Locate

Search-within-a-search to locate information from a list of search results or from citing references without editing the initial search.

 

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Reduced Searching Time

Eliminate unwanted search results at a glance.

 

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Global Searching

 

Search the entire Westlaw Canada platform to find information specific to queries, without having to choose multiple databases or learn database codes.

 

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Search or Browse Table of Contents

Drill down through the table of contents like a book or search headings.

 

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Starting Points

Browse, search or find information right from each of the online legal research services home pages.

 

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Unified Approach

Commentary and currency articles, talks, reports, etc. have a central or deliberate approach to organization around issues.

 

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Various Search Methods

Choose from a drop-down menu, terms and connectors, or natural language templates.

 

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Words Around Hits

Instantly see search terms highlighted in results list and link the concurring highlighted term right in to the full text of the document.

Words & Phrases

With over 30,000 entries, covering 60,000 Canadian judicial interpretations, Words & Phrases is by far the most comprehensive service of its kind in Canada.

 

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Workflow Solutions

Increase productivity with full workflow capability without limitations of search and retrieve platforms. Email, download, fax, print without duplicating your work.

 

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The Canadian Abridgment Online

 

The only comprehensive classification of Canadian law and the most powerful case law finding tool online.

·     Provides you with a key to understanding Canadian law

·     Allows you to browse or search case law online topically by classification

·     Covers virtually every case reported in Canada back to 1803, and every case received from the courts since 1986, whether reported or unreported, with the exception of Québec civil law.

·     Contains a comprehensive collection of more than 690,000 digests of Canadian Case Law

 

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Abridgment Classification Linking

Creates a dynamic link from within any Abridgment digest to all other digests with the same issue.

 

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Customized Templates

Choose from a variety of templates that are properly fielded for the specific document types.

 

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Carswell Law Reports

Access all the value-add in Carswell Law Reports including head-notes, articles, breadth of reports and historical depth.

 

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Rules Concordance

Link to concording rules across all jurisdictions for leading precedents.

 

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Abridgment eDigests

Currency service to keep you up to date on the latest developments in case law for a particular topic.

·     Offer 25 topical eDigests for LawSource subscribers, four for FamilySource subscribers, four for CriminalSource subscribers, and one for InsolvencySource subscribers.

·     Emailed to subscribers once a week.

 

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Abridgment Linking

A dynamic link to take you from within any Abridgment digest to all other digests with the same classification.

·     Simplifies the way you get from a case to other cases dealing with the same issue.

·     Combines the ease and flexibility of free-text searching with the comprehensiveness and content provided by Abridgment classification searching.

 

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Canadian Encyclopedic Digest (the CED) Online

Online version of Canada’s only legal encyclopedia, exclusive to Carswell.

·     Provides “just the facts” – the critical, concise information from experts that will allow you to quickly get to the heart of any legal issue.

·     Contains 219 titles representing a compilation and synthesis of leading case law, statutes, regulations, and procedural rules.

 

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Research Trail

A way to keep track of every search you run, every document you view, every link you follow, and every citation you check.

·     Allow you to return to research you haven't completed and to document your research efforts. You can also use them to check the thoroughness of someone else’s work.

·     Can be renamed for easier recall, and you can add notes to your trail to indicate topics, clients, or other information.

·     You can e-mail your Research Trails to yourself or your colleagues - and, if you want, you can have your Research Trails automatically sent to a specified e-mail address every time you sign off.

·     Are saved for 14 days. You can save individual trails longer by resetting their expiration dates.

 

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International Resources

Single password access to the most valuable global information resources.

·     Access and search legal, business and news resources from around the world.

·     Track your work in one charge-back system.

 

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Reporting System v.2

The cost recovery and reporting service allows you to track usage and charges with unmatched flexibility and ease-of-use of Internet access.

·     Streamlines your reporting process.

·     Auto-reporting allows you to avoid creating the same reports month after month

·     You can choose from multiple report formats or customize your reports

·     You can group locations, departments or cost centres into one report—simplify the reporting process or provide an overview of specific areas of your business

·     Allows you to create client invoices and view pay-per-view usage

·     You can mail reports directly to impacted parties within your organization, and set up report criteria specific to your organization

 

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Superior Support

Information Consultant

Carswell provides a consultative approach to servicing customers. As your point person I provide consultative information and ensure that you are fully supported.

Training Options

Our customers are fully trained on how to use and maximize the content and functionality utilizing a customized approach.

Research Support

Need assistance?  Our research support provides live, authoritative telephone support 7 days a week 24 hours a day.

Technical Support

Available 8:00am to 8:00pm across the country.

 

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