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Westlaw Hong Kong

The comprehensive resource for Hong Kong legal information.

Westlaw® Hong Kong contains current, comprehensive Hong Kong law from Sweet & Maxwell Asia, Hong Kong’s leader in legal information. Westlaw Hong Kong brings together essential and authoritative information resources specific to legal professionals in Hong Kong, with the technical expertise of Westlaw, the leading online legal information service in the United States. By combining materials from renowned information providers such as Carswell and West, Westlaw Hong Kong provides a unique collection of legal and regulatory information.

Westlaw Hong Kong is a product of Sweet & Maxwell Asia.

Why choose Westlaw Hong Kong?

  • Time saving and efficient searching
    Simply search by title, catchwords, citation, case number, judgment date or other key indexes to precisely get your research material.
  • Hyperlinks for immediate access to relevant materials
    Reap the benefits of the extensive linkage between case law and other materials not only within Hong Kong, but also across other common law jurisdictions
  • Are you sure that the case is good law?
    With KeyCite®, you can verify instantly whether your case is good law and find citing references to support and strengthen your legal argument.
  • Current awareness via automatic daily alerts
    The WestClip service can navigate the thousands of new documents added to Westlaw® daily. Set up a WestClip entry to search for the information you need and have it automatically delivered to a destination you select.
  • UK case locator documents
    Everything you need to know about a case on one page - including a summary, links to the full text, cited cases, cited legislation and history.

Reported cases

  • Full archive of reports from the Authorised Hong Kong Law Reports & Digests series from 1905 to present
  • Full text judgment from "The Law Reports" series in the UK
  • The Lloyds' Law Reports
  • Australia authorized case reports and unreported judgments from High Court and Federal Court

Unreported judgments

  • The only service with daily updates
  • Features catchwords for more efficient searches
  • Covers up to 6,000 cases in UK per annum. All cases include Sweet & Maxwell digests.

Renowned legal commentary

  • Hong Kong Civil Procedure
  • Archbold: Criminal Pleading, Evidence and Practice
  • Bullen & Leake & Jacob's Precedents of Pleadings
  • Palmer's Company Law

Full-text journals

  • Hong Kong Law Journal
  • Journal of Chinese and Comparative Law
  • Insolvency Intelligence (UK)
  • Construction Law Journal (UK)
  • Landlord and Tenant Review (UK)
  • News and business information
  • Newswires from Dow Jones and Reuters
  • Access to over 7,000 newspapers, magazines, journals and newsletters from around the world
  • Key regional newspapers including: the China Post, the Asian Wall Street Journal and the South China Morning Post

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Sweet & Maxwell Asia

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Hong Kong
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