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Legal Topic Suggestions

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Easily locate relevant material across content sets with Legal Topic Suggestions

If you are unfamiliar with a legal concept or area of law, it can be difficult to know where to start. With Legal Topic Suggestions, suggested legal topics are displayed as you type keywords into the global search bar. Clicking into a legal topic brings you to a curated set of content classified by legal editors.

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    Increase the efficiency and quality of your research with relevant cases and commentary based on your search terms
  • Editorial Expertise
    Driven by over 100 years of editorial expertise, so you can be confident that you have considered all relevant resources
  • Accuracy
    Rigorous editorial standards ensure the most up-to-date, connected, and organized collections of case law, statutes, and regulations

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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.

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KeyCite Overruling Risk

Adding another layer of trust to KeyCite flags, so that you can be confident that you are citing good law, by flagging decisions that may have been implicitly overruled as opposed to explicitly invalidated by a subsequent ruling. 

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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.  

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Tables of Contents

A table of content appears to the left of all cases. The tables of contents 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. 

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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.

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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.

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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.

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