Product Updates & Insights

ProView Integration

The first phase of the Westlaw Asia and ProView integration has been completed and is now live. If you are a subscriber of both platforms, or have purchased DUO titles, you can conveniently access your eBooks in the ProView tab on Westlaw Asia.

To make your experience on Westlaw Asia more seamless, you can now log into the site with your OnePass details. Information on OnePass is provided on the login page for customers who don’t yet have it. Meanwhile, the original login page will continue to remain live for a limited time.

New Commentary Additions

New titles and supplements have been added to Westlaw Asia’s commentary database (as well as ProView), including:

• Colinvaux’s Law of Insurance in Hong Kong, Third Edition
• Landlord & Tenant (Consolidation) Ordinance (Cap.7): Commentary and Annotations
• The 1st and 2nd supplements of the Singapore White Book
• Arbitration in Hong Kong: A Practical Guide, Fourth Edition
• The Financial Institutions (Resolution) Ordinance: Commentary and Annotations

Translated Business Laws of ASEAN

Westlaw Asia now offers high quality English translations of the business laws of Cambodia, Indonesia, and Myanmar. Over 230 laws have been added to the database to help you and your clients navigate the complexities of doing business in South East Asia.

Singapore Legislation

• Westlaw Asia now includes comprehensive coverage of over 6000 pieces of in-force Singapore legislation. Search or browse all Current Acts, Subsidiary legislation and Constitutional documents and view new Singapore legislation analysis documents that link legislation provisions to case citations, journal and commentary content in Westlaw Asia to enhance your research navigation.

Singapore Law Reports Case Analysis

• Now you can access Singapore Law Reports Case analysis documents that will provide important details and links for Singapore cases. View case summaries where available, party names, catch-words and subject phrases along with links that will connect you directly to related content within Westlaw Asia to enhance your research experience.

View our Release notes for full details on our enhancements

New! International citing references, connecting our content across jurisdictions

• Linked references between overseas cases and Asian documents that cite them increase the efficiency of your local and common law research

New case analysis citing references

• All case analysis documents now contain comprehensive references to case law and analytical resources that cite the master full text document, for ease of research

[Malaysia, Philippines and Hong Kong Enhancement] Legislation analysis cross referencing

• Need to know more about a specific provision of legislation? Our legislation analysis documents now contain the version of law in force, historic versions with in force dates and cases, journals and commentary citing this provision

[Malaysia Enhancement] All Malaysian Law Index added into case analysis documents

• Sweet and Maxwell’s All Malaysia Law Index provides a comprehensive reported case law citator, including the All Malaysia Reports, All Malaysia Commercial Reports, Borneo Law Report, Personal Injury Reports and parallel citations to Malayan Law Journal and Current Law Journal and more. Click here for the full list

New! Global guides

• A quick reference guide for the basics of a specific area of law across multiple jurisdictions

View our Release notes for full details on our enhancements

New Content:

New Jurisdiction - Korea

• Supreme Court Decisions
• Trial and Appellate Court Decisions
• Constitutional Court Decisions
• Korea Current Awareness
• Korea Commentary
• Korean Journals
  • Asian Business Lawyer
  • Dongguk Law Review
  • Hanyang Journal of Law
  • Journal of East Asia and International Law
  • Korean Legislation Research Institute Journal of Law and Legislation
  • Korea University Law Review
  • Sungkyunkwan Journal of Science & Technology Law
  • Supreme Court Law Journal
  • Yonsei Law

New Journal – Hong Kong Lawyer (The official journal of the law society of Hong Kong)

New Features:

• HTML Alerts – Reinstated the HTML format Alert option
• Enhanced Trails – View all your transaction types in a single list

Enhanced Personalisation:

• My Folders – A new feature enabling users to save documents from their research into customised folders
• Highlighting & Annotations – Highlight Text and add notes pertinent to your research within a document
• Recent Documents – Easily switch between recent documents viewed in your current research session

More Case Law!

• New Zealand & Australia
• Now with Australian and New Zealand case law, Westlaw Asia provides a holistic common law legal research experience in a single platform. Westlaw Asia New Zealand case law spans more than 30 online databases comprised of over 160,000 cases from New Zealand’s superior courts, specialist courts and tribunals dating back to 1847. With Westlaw’s powerful search tool, you can pin-point the exact information required. Receive daily updates on case law in real-time from Westlaw Asia New Zealand’s BriefCase database.
• Philippines
• With over 10 years of historical coverage and ongoing decisions from the Supreme Court of the Philippines, Westlaw Asia Philippines can assist you in preparing for court.

More Jurisdictions!

Access content from the wider Asia region through a single legal research platform enabling you to keep up to date with the latest legal developments across Asia from more than 19 Jurisdictions!
Current Awareness and Commentary covering Brunei, Cambodia, China, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Laos, Macau, Mongolia Myanmar, Offshore, Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam. Find out more

Westlaw Next Integration

Users who register for OnePass can take advantage of seamless authentication into Westlaw Next. This provides a convenient way to access the additional legal content on Westlaw Next without signing to a different account.

Alerts!

Alerts previously setup in Westlaw HK or Westlaw Malaysia can be activated in Westlaw Asia. Your current alerts that keep you up-to-date with changes in the law can be reactivated with just one click.

Current Awareness

Expanded current awareness now covers 10 more Asian jurisdictions