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Westlaw Australia Tip - Natural Language searching

Last Published: March 24, 2020

Natural Language searching allows you to search for content in plain English by asking a question or typing in a sentence that describes the information you are looking for.

Ask a question suggestions

Westlaw’s editorial team create law summaries which are suggested answers to common legal questions. You can ask a question or use key words from the question being asked.

  1. For example, if your question is related to the tort of defamation, the question “what are the elements of the tort of defamation” can be typed, or just the key words elements defamation. Click on the suggested question to retrieve law summaries and other relevant results

Searching where there are no suggestions

 

  1. Enter your search terms using natural language. E.g. searching for information relating to satire and copyright infringement. If there are no suggestions, click search or enter to retrieve relevant results.
  1. Results can be filtered by content type on the left-hand side.

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