1. Chitty on Westlaw made easy
Getting started
Alternatives to searching
Seeing footnotes more easily
Searching tips 1 2 3 7

2. Search,
or choose which volume you would like to read... 1

3. Choosing volume 1 (for example) allows you to browse the table of contents and Index in the same way as you would with the printed book.
This is useful if searching isn’t finding what you need. 2

4. So you can read the text, but how can you easily see the footnotes without having to scroll a very long way? 3

5. First get rid of the blue area to make a bit more room by clicking on the
symbol in top right 4

6. Right click on a footnote and choose
Open in new window 5

7. If you remove the blue lefthand panel from the footnote pane, you can position the panes so that you have text on one side and footnotes on the other 6

8. Some useful searches
Find variations of word:
Westlaw will look for paragraphs in Chitty for the exact whole word you type in* unless you use “!” at the end of the word – searching on Enforce! Looks for any word beginning with these 7 letters
*the only exception is Westlaw automatically looks for plural/ singular equivalents 7

9. Some useful searches 7 Words close together:
If you want to look for words close together there are a few options:
“procedural differences “ ensures you find that phrase in that order
procedure /s difference will find the words in the same sentence so would include, for example differences in procedure [ remember single/plurals are found automatically]
If you don’t want to find that – you can force the sequence:
procedure +s difference would only find a section of Chitty where the words appear in this order in the same sentence.
Instead of same sentence, you can find items in the same paragraph by using /p or +p 7

10. Restrict your search to vol.1 or 2 7
First choose your volume in the “Browse” section – you then get a search specific to that volume. 7

11. Terms in context
How to do you tell which result is useful without clicking on it?
The information about the topic of the volume, chapter and section is useful: 7