What to include in your brief

For all requests, please confirm: 

• Deadlines. When do you need your request delivered.
• Preferred delivery method, if other than email.
• How long should we spend. What is your time or budget limit?

AI Citation Checking

• Please advise if you suspect a case citation has been generated by AI and would like us to authenticate it.
• Please provide the full legal citation.

Document Delivery

For cases, articles, extracts and legislation.

• Please provide the full legal citation, or as many details as possible such as source.
• Let us know if you would like the cases copied in a particular way (e.g. for court).

Research Services

• Provide a brief background so that we have the context for your request.
• Clearly define your research request. What are you seeking to find out?
• What type of information do you require? For example: case law and commentary, just case law, words and phrases, recent journal articles, comparison of previous legislation wording etc.
• Which jurisdiction/s would you like covered? For example: New Zealand, Australia, England, Canada, Singapore, USA
• Which court level are you interested in? For example: Court of Appeal and Supreme Court only, High Court and above, guideline judgments only.
• Is there a relevant section of an Act?
• Tell us if you have already undertaken some research on the topic and what was (or wasn't) found. Is there anything we do not need to cover?
• Do you suspect there will be a lot of information or very little?

Research results and what to expect

Research results are usually provided in the form of case summaries, selected cases, commentary (extracts from loose leaf titles, texts, articles, Law Commission reports etc).

We will also provide a concise summary of resources consulted and what our research has found or not found (if relevant). These may include AI generated results from Westlaw AI-Assisted Research.

We do not provide legal opinions

Once you have reviewed your research results, do not hesitate to contact us to discuss further research points if this is required.