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Dear Lexis®Library subscriber,
e-burst brings you up to date with the latest improvements in your LexisNexis® online services. Some of the sources and titles mentioned below are subscription dependent, please contact your account manager or call us on 020 7400 2984 if you would like to discuss adding any of these services to your existing subscription.
Fantastic Legislation Enhancements
Coming soon - Appeal Tracker Enhancements to Client Administration Functionality New online content Coming soon – RSS Feeds on LexisLibrary Top Tip! Did you know? We have just introduced some fantastic enhancements to UK Legislation, which you can try out today.
Firstly, you have the all new Status Snapshots (which amalgamate Halsbury’s Is It In Force and Halsbury’s Statutes Citator), as well as traffic lights which indicate the status of the Act and its provisions. You can access Status Snapshots from the Find out more links within UK Parliament Acts, or search them directly from the Sources drop-down list on the Legislation Search Form. It means that you’ll get an at-a-glance snapshot of any Act and provision from 2000 onwards at the click of your fingers! Pre-2000 Acts will have Status Snapshots added to them in coming months so watch this space!
The third enhancement is the addition of section ranges to the corresponding part within the table of contents. Previously, you had to open up the part numbers to see in which part a section belongs. By listing the section ranges within brackets after each part, you save time and can navigate around our legislation more easily.
So, there you have it. An array of superb enhancements to further improve our fantastic legislative offering!
The first enhancement is available to all users who currently subscribe to Is It In Force and Halsbury’s Statutes Citator, and the second and third enhancements are available to all subscribers of UK Parliament Acts.
If you would like further information on these developments, please contact your account manager, or call us today on 020 7400 2984.
Login to LexisLibrary Appeal Tracker is new functionality we’re adding soon to LexisLibrary that enables you to track prospective cases, saving you valuable time. It is an enhancement to CaseSearch, which tracks the appeal status of judgments starred on the All England Reporter service AND which
In cases of legal interest which are appealable to the Civil Division of the Court of Appeal or to the Supreme Court, Appeal Tracker will tell you whether or not a case is being appealed and, if it is, what stage the case is at in the appeal process. Appeal Tracker will be an additional table added to the bottom of CaseSearch. In two columns it will outline the dates and steps of the appeal process. You can link directly from a starred appealable case that features in All England Reporter by clicking on the “Appeal Tracker” icon, to the additional table in CaseSearch. You can easily link to the full text of the case subject to appeal from CaseSearch.
Prospective case tracking – saving you time in a busy world!
You’ll be delighted to hear that we have made some great new enhancements to the Client Administration Tool, which to recap, is a tool enabling administrators to create/delete passwords, change product settings, such as results ordering and Bookshelf sources at a firm or department level, and create customised Practice Area Pages.
The developments now enable administrators to:
These save you time, give you more precision and a greater autonomy to review user lists. What more could you ask for!
If you would like more information on this fantastic tool, contact your account manager today.
New online content
Now available: FSA Handbook: Banking: Conduct of Business sourcebook
The FSA Handbook Banking: Conduct of Business sourcebook forms part of the Financial Services Authority Handbook of Rules and Guidance. The Banking: Conduct of Business sourcebook (BCOBS) can be found in the Business Standards section of the Handbook.
Butterworths New Law Guide: Mental Capacity Act 2005 Butterworths New Law Guide series provides a succinct analysis of the Mental Capacity Act 2005 including the full text of the Act.
It explains in detail key concepts of the new legislation and implication for practitioners, whilst identifying areas of potential difficulty and providing guidance in relation to particularly controversial areas of the Act.
Written by experts in the field, the source also answers common questions relating to capacity and provides practice points to ensure full guidance on the law.
Kingsley Napley: Serious Fraud, Investigation & Trial Formerly known as "Kirk & Woodcock: Serious Fraud, Investigation & Trial", this well respected source is essential reading for all those involved in prosecuting and defending cases of serious fraud. It draws together the strands of what has effectively become a new and distinct area of criminal practice.
Containing comprehensive coverage of recent changes and new legislation such as the Fraud Act 2006, the source also covers prosecution and defence duties of disclosure; restructured statutory materials; updated commentary and material on the law relating to serious fraud cases; details of offences, including conspiracy to defraud; cross-border procedures; and coverage of the increasingly important international dimension to fraud investigations.
It also explains clearly and succinctly the rules applicable to fraud cases, examining the means open to the prosecutor, defendant and judge in preparatory hearings to ensure a fraud trial is more manageable. The source covers the sentencing options open to the court, providing a comprehensive selection of important statutes, statutory instruments and practice directions.
Login to LexisLibrary An early Christmas treat is coming your way this year in the shape of RSS feeds on pre-set updates on LexisLibrary. These range from the latest cases on All England Reporter to the most recent articles from your favourite legal journal.
It takes the effort out of manually searching for up-to-date materials, increasing your efficiency and ensuring you don’t miss a trick.
We are hoping Santa will deliver these before Christmas – watch this space! And there’s plenty more exciting developments we’ll be making next year to RSS too. RSS is for life, not just for Christmas!
Login to LexisLibrary e-burst archive
Older issues of e-burst can now be found at http://www.lexisnexis.org.uk/lexislibrary/eburst/. This microsite enables you to find any e-bursts you may have missed and keeps you up to date with all the great developments on LexisLibrary. Locating Halsbury’s Words and Phrases on LexisLibrary
Did you know that the Words & Phrases volume of Halsbury’s Laws Index is available on LexisLibrary? Simply type Halsbury’s Index into the Find a source box, on the Homepage or Practice Area Pages and you’ll instantly locate Halsbury’s Laws Index. Click on the Browse button and you’ll see a Words and Phrases heading. Legal words and phrases can be found under the associated letter specifying their location/s within Halsbury’s Laws. A real time-saver pinpointing you to exactly where you need to be – take a look today. What do you want to hear about?
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