| Activity |
Charge |
Comments |
| Finding a document by citation or name |
$3.50 |
This charge is assigned if you use the Find
template, or use Find by name or citation on the home page. It is also
assigned when you link to a document from within another document. This
includes linking from the French version to the English version of a
case. |
| Requesting a KeyCite result for a case or statute |
$7.00 |
This charge is assigned when KeyCite is requested
for a document. It applies no matter how the KeyCite results are
requested. If you link to documents listed in a KeyCite result, an
additional FIND fee of $3.50 per document will be assigned. |
| Running a search using the Cases or Legislation
templates |
$15.00 |
This charge allows you to view and
print the Cite List of search results, and any document retrieved by the
search. However, if you link to a document from within one of those
documents, a FIND charge of $3.50 is assigned per document. |
| Running a search using the Canadian Abridgment
Digests, CED or ICLL templates. |
$20.00 |
| Running a search using the Law Reports, Articles
and Journals template (includes ICLL) |
$40.00 |
| Running a search using the All LawSource Content
template |
$75.00 |
| Edit search |
$15 - $75 |
This starts a new search and another search fee
will be assigned based on the database you are using. |
| Locate |
$0.00 |
You can narrow your search results using the
Locate function without a new search fee being assigned. |
| Browsing the Table of Contents for Legislation,
the Rules Concordance, and CED and linking to a document |
$3.50 |
If you drill down to an individual document using
the Table of Contents then no charge is assigned until you click on a
blue link, at which point a FIND fee is assigned. |
| Next and Previous links |
$0.00 |
If you click on the Next or Previous links after opening a
statutory provision or a CED paragraph, you can view the preceding and
subsequent documents without incurring another notional charge. For example, you can move from s. 3 of a statute
to s. 2 or 4, even though neither section was retrieved by a search or a
FIND request. |
| Browsing the Table of Contents for Abridgment
Digests and linking to a classification |
$20.00 |
If you drill down to a classification using the
Table of Contents for the Abridgment then no charge is assigned until
you click on a blue link, at which point a SEARCH fee is assigned. |
| Searching selected headings from the Table of
Contents |
$20.00 |
If you select headings from the Table of Contents
and then search within those headings a SEARCH fee is assigned. |
| Clicking on KeyCite icons |
$7.00 |
A KeyCite request triggers assignment of a
KeyCite fee. Additional fees will not be assigned for the same KeyCite
request in one research session. |
| Clicking on Abridgment Digest or Authorities
Related Info link |
$0.00 |
No charge is assigned for this. |
| Viewing documents listed under Recent
Developments |
$0.00 |
No charge is assigned for this. |
| Printing or downloading documents located in the
WestlaweCARSWELL databases |
$0.00 |
No charge is assigned for this. |
| Using FIND or clicking on a link to obtain
documents from international Westlaw databases |
$5 to 15.00 |
There is a print/download charge of $10 per
document in addition to a FIND charge of $5 for viewing the document.
The print charge can be avoided by using the print features of your
browser (right click in frame) to print the document instead of invoking
the print command from within WestlaweCARSWELL. |
| Using links in the Research Trail |
$0.00 for rest of day, new charge after that. |
No charge is assigned if you click on a link in
the Research Trail later in the same day. After
that period, a charge will be assigned on the same basis as if a new
SEARCH, FIND or KeyCite request were made. |
