Know that you are citing good law with KeyCite Overruling Risk
KeyCite Overruling Risk is the only citator that warns when a point of law in a case has been implicitly undermined based on its reliance on an overruled or otherwise invalid prior decision. This additional layer of protection means you can be confident you are citing good law.
- Leverage state-of-the-art technology to identify bad law, even when there are no direct citations calling the law into question
- Avoid manually reviewing cases to determine if they cite an implicitly overruled point of law
- Easily get information on the overruling and overruled cases
What is implicitly invalidated case law?
Traditional citators identify when a case has been explicitly invalidated by a subsequent ruling. However, they don’t warn when similar cases may have also been implicitly overruled or undermined by subsequent developments in the law.
KeyCite Overruling Risk, available exclusively on Westlaw Edge Canada, marks cases with an orange icon when there are no direct citations pointing to their invalidity.
See how it works
Avoid wasted effort
KeyCite Overruling Risk warns when a point of law in a case has been implicitly undermined based on its reliance on an overruled or otherwise invalid prior decision. Instead of reading through a long list of authorities to find that a decision relies on an overruled point of law, be alerted to this information up front.
Be confident that you’re relying on good law
The paragraphs that are most at risk of being overruled are flagged, providing you with an extra layer of confidence that you are citing good law.
KeyCite warnings on Westlaw Edge Canada
KeyCite warnings, including the Overruling Risk icon, will appear throughout your research so you can see at a glance the status of a document, making it simple to determine whether further investigation is needed.
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Judicial Consideration for Statutes
Important cases interpreting a statute appear in a tab beside Citing References, giving you seamless access to a list of cases that meaningfully interpret the provision that you are noting-up.
Proceedings Filter
A case law filter that allows you to narrow search results by motion or application type, so that you can find decisions that are relevant to the procedural context of your matter.
Tables of Content
A table of content appears to the left of all cases. The tables of content headings are dependent on the content and structure of the decision. All headings are linked, allowing you to easily jump directly to specific sections that are relevant to you.
Sidebar
Add sidebars to any content on Westlaw Edge Canada. The sidebars appear on screen as well as on all documents that you email, print or download. Sidebarring on Westlaw Edge saves time by eliminating the need for manual document mark-up.
Select Term Highlighting
The colour differentiation allows you to 1) scan search result lists for relevance and 2) navigate directly to key portions of the decision based on the concentration of and relationship between search terms and phrases.
Common Queries
Designed to give you quick answers to common legal questions. Questions are suggested based on your search term queries. When a question is selected you are presented with answers, extracted from cases and filterable by jurisdiction.
Legal Topic Suggestions
As you type keywords into the search box, suggestions of related legal topics appear. Clicking into one of these legal topics brings you to a curated set of material, across content sets so that you can be sure you haven’t overlooked any relevant resources.