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WestLaw

Extensive legal database which provides full-text legislation, case law and law reviews covering the jurisdictions of Hong Kong, the United Kingdom, Australia & other jurisdictions
Treaties and international agreements are also included.
Content highlights
- Hong Kong Law Reports and Digest (1905-)
- Hong Kong Latest Judgment Alert Service (1999-)
- UK statutes (1267-) and UK cases (1865-)
- Legal Journals Index which provides citations and abstracts of over 800 law journals published in the UK and Europe (1986-).

The default welcome page allows a combined search on all subscribed contents (including, Australia, Hong Kong and UK). You can either:

Limit your search to UK case law, you can select "United Kingdom" and "Cases" on the welcome page OR
Go to "Jurisdiction" then select "United Kingdom" to search for all UK contents.

The default welcome page allows a combined search on all subscribed contents (including Hong Kong).

Things to note:

Check the desired boxes to limit your search.
Enclose all phrases within a pair of double quotation marks. By default, a space between the keywords denotes the logical connector AND.
Check out "Search Tips" and "List of Connectors" for how best to build your search statements.
Click "Natural Language" to search like Google. The best 100 results will be retrieved.

The default welcome page allows a combined search on all subscribed contents (covering Australia, UK and Hong Kong).

For example, if you are looking for Australia case law, you can select "Australia" and "Cases".

For US content, you can go to the Westlaw Classic platform.

Extensive news & legal database
Has law cases and statutes of various jurisdictions including Hong Kong, UK, US, Australia, New Zealand and Canada, and US law reviews, including Hong Kong "unreported" cases.