LawNow Plus

Features

LawNow Plus includes our LawNow legislation collections of current and historical legislation from all Australian jurisdictions plus Legislation Citator - a powerful research tool that provides contextual information about legislation and links to other content on Lexis+ that refers to the legislation you are viewing, including cases and commentary.

Key Benefits

• The LawNow legislation collection: Includes current and historical legislation, delivering all Acts and Regulations as passed and official consolidations, together with historic versions, links to Bills, explanatory memoranda, second reading speeches and Parliamentary tracking. Each Act and Regulation includes a comprehensive Legislative History providing complete status information for all Assents, Gazettals and Commencements, with links to amending and repeal provisions.

• Legislation Citator: Our legislation citator enables the user to instantly locate cases and commentary discussing a selected provision or whole Act or Regulation, directly from the text of the legislation, without the need to repeatedly search multiple resources. Related content is surfaced with pinpoint relevance and includes links to Cases, Halsbury's Laws of Australia, Commentary, Annotated legislation within commentary titles, Journals, Newsletters & Bulletins, Textbooks and Dictionaries. Legislation citator will either provide an immediate answer to questions about the legislation, or a springboard to further information.

• Clear and easy to navigate format: Users can quickly get the legislation they need either by using Lexis Advance's powerful search, or by browsing by full title, keyword in title, subject or by year and number listing, with extensive links between enabling Acts and subordinate legislation and to defined terms. Historical legislation may be browsed by in-force date, with links to and from the current version. With direct links from CaseBase, Halsbury's Laws of Australia, and Lexis+ commentary, LawNow provides a centralised hub to connect all your core research sources to deliver a fast, seamless, and precise research solution.