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Westlaw China
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Westlaw China online legal database is a powerful legal research tool customized for legal professionals. It is provided by Thomson Reuters Legal basing on Westlaw online legal database.
Our editorial team comprises lawyers and experts with years of experience in legal work. The team has been carefully reviewing and organizing laws and regulations as well as court cases of mainland China in order to provide users with well-processed legal information and value-added data services.
Containing both a Chinese database and an English database, Westlaw China is designed not only to provide users with accurate and bilingual legal information but also to satisfy customized needs of both Chinese-speaking and English-speaking users.
Westlaw China's content is updated on daily basis so as to ensure the currency and accuracy of the information we provide to our customers.
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Knowledge to Act
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- Comprehensive Coverage: our database contains 35 legal topics, over 530,000 laws and regulations, 200,000 cases , 27,000 legal issues, 5,000 case headnotes and selected legal journals.
- Quality translation: our English translations are prepared by professional and experienced legal translators and proofread by native English speakers with legal background. We make every effort to ensure the precision, readability and correct use of legal terms in our translation, and are dedicated to provide users with accurate English content for their reference and use in their work.
- Current Awareness: our Current Awareness service is delivered in two forms, one is presenting by personalized email service subscription and the other is presenting at our website. Both can be viewed in Chinese or English. Comprises nine categories: Adopted Legislation, Courts and Cases, Proposed Legislation, Government Policies, Statistics, Law Firm Bulletin, Books and Journals, Commentaries, and News. With up-to-date and concise content, we provide legal professionals with a one-stop option for access to the latest legal and business news. We provide carefully selected and edited information and multiple updates throughout each day.
- Better classification: our legal topics focus on the most important practice areas such as FDI and M&A. Each legal issue comprises law excerpt, case headnotes, relevant documents, or cross reference. Users can easily retrieve accurate information and understand the law in an unfamiliar area.
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The Most Comprehensive Legal Database
Westlaw China's Chinese online legal database contains 35 legal topics, over 530,000 laws and regulations, 200,000 cases and 27,000 legal issues. Every day, our editors review hundreds of sources and summarize the information covering the practice areas of legal professionals who specialize in Chinese laws. Westlaw China Alert, which is a service tailored for subscribers' personalized needs, updates them on daily basis with the news carefully selected and prepared by our editors.
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Legal Topics and Legal Issues
Westlaw China covers 34 legal topics and 28,000 legal issues. These legal topics focus on the most important practice areas such as FDI and M&A. Each legal issue comprises law excerpt, case headnote, relevant document, and cross reference. Users can easily retrieve accurate information and understand the law in an unfamiliar area.
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Legal Topics
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Civil Law & Commercial Law
Civil Law (EN), Company, Contract, Copyright (EN), Foreign Direct Investment (EN), M&A (EN), Negotiable Instruments, Patent, Property Law, Real Property, Security, Securities, Trademark (EN) Criminal Law
Criminal Law Administrative Law
Administrative Licensing, Punishment, Review Economic Law
Anti-Unfair Competition (EN), Banking, Bidding, Business Tax, Customs, Deed Tax (EN), Energy, Foreign Exchange, Individual Income Tax, International Trade, Labor & Social Security, Land Value-Added Tax, Product Quality, State Assets Supervision & Administration, Tax Collection & Administration, Telecom & Internet (EN) Procedure Law
Administrative Litigation, Arbitration (EN), Civil Procedure (EN), Criminal Procedure
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Quality English Translation
Our English translations are prepared by professional and experienced legal translators and proofread by native English speakers with legal background. We make every effort to ensure the precision, readability and correct use of legal terms in our translation, and are dedicated to provide users with accurate English content for their reference and use in their work. Our English content covers more than 7,500 major laws and regulations, 3,000 case headnotes, 11 legal topics, 5,200 legal issues, law review article abstracts and current awareness. The numbers are growing every day.
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Customized Service to Meet Users' Different Needs
Westlaw China Alerts, our new function of Current Awareness, enables users to subscribe the personalized email service based on their key word search, which will allow them to subscribe information according to the news topics of their own interest.
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Personalized Settings
Through the “Option” menu on Westlaw China, users can configure the default settings for displaying, searching and printing documents. The options include: time zone option, number of results displayed per page, change of email address, delivery options.
The new interface is more user friendly.
Browsing in the same window helps avoid screening of information by the "Pop-up" killer.
Users can email or print any document from Westlaw China as a Word or PDF file.
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Quality Assurance for English Content
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Current Awareness
Our Current Awareness service is delivered in two forms, one is presenting by personalized email service subscription and the other is presenting at our website. Both can be viewed in Chinese or English. We provide carefully selected and edited information and multiple updates throughout each day.
Our Current Awareness comprises nine categories: Adopted Legislation, Courts and Cases, Proposed Legislation, Government Policies, Statistics, Law Firm Bulletin, Books and Journals, Commentaries, and News. With up-to-date and concise content, we provide legal professionals with a one-stop option for access to the latest legal and business news.
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Better Search Results
Legal topics integrate laws, regulations, and cases under the same legal issue. Within these legal topics, “Smart Links” and the “Key Number System” help users find relevant legal information quickly.
User can search across databases on the homepage by checking the checkboxes for different content categories. The cross-database quick search will present results within users’ selected databases.
User can search across databases on the homepage by checking the checkboxes for different content categories. The cross-database quick search will present results within users’ selected databases.
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Westlaw China vs. Other Online Legal Database
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Westlaw China |
Other online legal database |
| High frequency updating of Laws & Regulations and news |
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Limited content. Update only once a day |
| Approx. 50 Chinese news and 15 English news feed everyday |
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Few content update everyday |
| Categorized by promulgating agencies and practice-oriented legal topics |
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By promulgating agencies |
| Valuable case headnotes |
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No digest |
| Quality English translation |
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No proofread by native speaker process in English translation |
| Keyword and segmentation search |
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Only keyword search in Chinese database |
| Search results are sorted by both relevancy and date chorological |
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Sorted by chorological only |
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Please feel free to contact us if you are interested in the trial of Westlaw China
Tel +86 10 5969 5100 +86 21 6104 1704
Fax +86 10 5969 5069
westlawchina.marketing@thomsonreuters.com
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