· LexisNexis® Butterworths 1. Click on Cases on the navigation bar under the Search tab. 2. Click on the CaseSearch link on the left-hand side of your screen. CaseSearch is a useful

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Quick Find• Enter search terms into relevant search field and click on Find. • Use the Find a source field to quickly search the source directory.

Explore• Use Explore to search for information on an area of law across your subscribed sources.My Bookshelf• Click on the Add/remove/sort sources link to customise your list. To browse a Source’s Table of Contents, click on the Browse link next to source name. For example: Halsbury’s Laws of England.

• Click on the plus (+) signs to expand the table of contents. Click on the minus (-) signs to collapse a branch of the contents.

• Click on the title of a document to open the source at that point and view the full text. • To search the volume, place a tick in the box to the left of the volume number and enter your search

terms in the Quick Find box. Click on Find.

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1. Click on Cases on the navigation bar under the Search tab.

2. Click on the CaseSearch link on the left-hand side of your screen. CaseSearch is a useful tool for establishing how a case has been treated.

3. In the Case name field, enter one or both party names. For example: pye and graham

Note: Brackets, capital letters and punctuation are not necessary.

Click on Search to retrieve your search results. Your search results will appear in reverse chronological order. Click on the relevant case name to view your required case and its treatment. The table below explains the meaning of the traffic light signals used to indicate what kind of treatment a case has received.

Type Value Description

Negative Treatment Icon

This indicates that the decision has been subsequently reversed, disapproved or overruled.

Cautionary Treatment Icon

This indicates that the decision has had some doubt cast on it.

Positive Treatment Icon

This indicates that the decision has received positive treatment: affirmed, applied, etc.

Neutral Treatment Icon

This indicates that the decision has received neutral or ambivalent treatment: considered, explained, etc.

Information Icon This indicates that no treatment has been given – only citation information is available.

Using CaseSearch

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Finding Legislation1. Click on Legislation on the navigation bar under the Search tab. Enter the legislation title in the Title

field, place a tick in the Act box and click on Search to retrieve results. If you know the year the Act or SI was enacted, you can enter this in the Year field to refine the number of results retrieved.

For example: data protection

Note: If you are looking for a specific section, you can enter the number in the Provision field.

2. The Result Groups panel on the left will open by default at Legislation Title.

On the right, each section of each piece of legislation is displayed as a separate document.

3. Select your required piece of legislation from the listing in the left column. The sections will appear in sequential order on the right-hand side of your screen.

4. Click on the Data Protection Act 1998 title link on the right-hand side to open up the Act.

5. Click on the Find out more and View whole of links to access related content and/or the entire piece of legislation. Click on the Stop Press icon to see the most recent amendments which have been made to an Act which are yet to be incorporated into the body of the text.

Finding a Source1. Click on the Sources tab at the top of your screen.

2. Choose to either: Browse Sources by Publication Type, Area of Law, or Industry; or Find Sources listed alphabetically (as shown above).

3. Once your source is located, click on the information icon to check coverage information, for example frequency of updating and period of coverage. From here, you can click on Browse to browse a source or a source name to search it. To search more than one source, tick the sources you would like to be included in your search and click on OK-Continue.

4. To locate non-UK sources, select the jurisdiction you are interested in from the Country drop-down list and follow step 3 above to search or browse these sources.

Delivering a Document1. From your search results, select documents to print, e-mail or download by ticking the boxes that

appear to the left of the document title.

2. In the upper right-hand corner of your Results page, click on the selected delivery icon you would like to use: Print, E-mail or Download.

3. Alternatively, click on the Add to link to save documents to the delivery folder. Documents saved here can be accessed for up to 24 hours and collated/delivered as required.

Creating an Alert – Update

1. To create a topic/subject based alert, click on My Research on the navigation bar.

2. Select the Alerts option and click on the Update Wizard link.

3. Follow the simple 4 step process:

• Select topic(s) and sources

• Select frequency of update

• Select delivery format

• Save the update with a name


Connectors Connectors and wildcards enable you to conduct more efficient and effective searching on LNB. The key connectors are outlined below:

and

Finds your search terms within the same document. For example:

armed robbery and weapon finds the phrase “armed robbery” and the word “weapon” within the same document

or

Finds abbreviations or synonyms. For example:

VAT or value added tax

lawyer or counsel finds the words lawyer or counsel, or both within the same document

w/n

Links search words and phrases by giving them a proximity to each other. The letter ‘n’ stands for any number from 1 to 255. For example:

dismissal w/5 constructive finds dismissal within five words or fewer of constructive, regardless of which word appears first.

!

Truncator: replaces any number of characters at the end of a word. For example:

negligen! finds negligent, negligence and negligently

*

Wildcard: replaces a single character at any point in a word, except for the first character. For example:

cl*rk* finds clerk, clark and clarke

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