How is Westlaw Edge different?
Westlaw Edge Canada combines editorial legacy with the latest technology to help you research in ways never before possible
Enhanced search
Save time digging through results lists and complete your research
with confidence.
Judicial Consideration for Statutes
Quickly find the most relevant cases that apply or interpret a statute.
KeyCite Cited With
Find connections between cases that would traditionally be difficult to uncover. KeyCite Cited With allows you to quickly identify related cases that have a pattern of being cited together, even if neither cites the other.
Keep List/Hide Details
Easily save relevant cases for later review and hide cases you don't want to reexamine to make research more organized and efficient.
Graphical View of History
See detailed visualizations of your previous research so you can efficiently retrace your steps and continue your work where you left off.
Legal Topic Suggestions
Quickly get suggestions of related legal topics as you type keywords into the search box.
Missing and Must-include Terms
Missing search terms from a specific document are highlighted, and a link to re-run the search with the missing terms required is provided for more precise results.
Content & editorial enhancements
Boost your research with the largest, most up-to-date collection of legal information available in Westlaw Canada and Westlaw Edge
Primary Law
Westlaw Edge offers the same comprehensive collection included in Westlaw Canada: Federal and Provincial caselaw, statutes, regulations, court rules, and administrative materials.
Secondary Sources
Access an unparalleled collection with resources such as the Canadian Encyclopedic Digest; our Topical Texts and Annotations collection; COA (Causes of Action); law reviews; journals and more.
Litigation Materials
Access the most comprehensive online collection of litigation materials, including, pleadings, motions, memoranda, and other resources to use throughout all stages of the litigation.
KeyCite
The industry’s most complete, accurate, up-to-the-minute citation service that instantly verifies whether a case, statute, regulation, or administrative decision is still good law.
The Canadian Abridgment Classification
A comprehensive collection of over a million digests of Canadian case law organized by legal issue according to a single taxonomy (The Canadian Abridgment Key Classification System). This collection is exclusive to Thomson Reuters and covers virtually every reported or unreported case received from the courts since 1986, with the exception of Quebec civil law cases. The Canadian Abridgment forms the basis for Legal Topics which pulls together related caselaw, Canadian Encyclopedic Digests, texts and annotations, and legal memoranda organized by legal issue.
Case Digests
Rely on summaries of specific points of law addressed in a particular case, written by our legal editors to quickly review which points of law were addressed by the court and how it ruled. Applicable case digests are always listed at the top of a case to easily identify ones that match your facts and the desired outcome.
Topical Texts and Annotations
Authoritative texts and annotations from leading experts. Westlaw’s powerful search capabilities, integrated content, research management tools, and exclusive editorial enhancements are accessible all in one place.
O’Brien’s Encyclopedia of Forms
An extensive collection of forms and precedents covering a broad range of legal subjects, O’Brien’s Encyclopedia of Forms provides thousands of documents that can be easily customized to suit your individual needs. Each topical division includes authored commentary.
Legal Editors & other features
Human expertise providing you with time-saving guidance
Legal editors
Our team of bar-admitted lawyer-editors analyze, categorize, and summarize the law, creating editorial enhancements to help you research more efficiently – and with greater accuracy.
Expert research Support
The industry’s premier team of legal research support professionals are available 24/7 to keep your research moving forward.
Access to new features
Quickly leverage new features included in your plan as they become available. Our product development teams are constantly optimizing and expanding our tools and services.
Technical specs
Using Westlaw
Supported operating systems
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Mac® OS 10.5 or later
Internet browser
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Chrome current version
Microsoft Edge current version
Other requirements
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Adobe Acrobat Reader® 9.0 or later (some print functionality is lost with older versions)
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