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NextLaw Legal Research app for iPhone and iPad


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Developer: Media Plus Branding (pty.) Limited
Free
Current version: 2.0.11, last update: 4 years ago
First release : 25 Sep 2017
App size: 3.9 Mb

ONE SINGLE SUBSCRIPTION to NextLaw™ Legal Search Engine gives quick and easy access to:

Courts’ Decisions;
Statutes and Regulations;
International Law and Decisions (England & Wales, India, Canada & Australia)
Legal Journals and Articles;
Summary of Judgments;
Government Gazettes; etc.

With just ONE log-in, NextLaw™ App gives users like judges, advocates, attorneys, legal researchers, law students, and other legal professionals access to judgments from all courts in Africa, Statutes of Parliament, Legal Journals, etc. The App guarantees effective, efficient, and timely conduct of legal research, irrespective of location, time and access to the Internet. This App, which is powered by NextLaw’s Web Server, delivers an efficient and accurate search results, because it deploys the concept of natural key words.

The user types the key word(s) and then specifies where s/he wants the App to search: Courts, Statutes, Regulations, Gazettes or Journals/Articles, and the results are delivered within seconds. Just typing the key words (single or multiple words), or Case Title, or Case Number, or even the Judges’ name, using natural key words, the search engines filters the search and narrows it down to the specifics set as the search criteria. Thus, from one interface, the user can search through cases, statutes, gazettes, articles/journals, regulations and rules of courts at once. Powerful tool for lawyers in deed!

Combined with the App’s accuracy, preciseness, and promptness, are mobility, convenience and affordability. This is because NextLaw™ Search Engine functions offline. No Internet connection is required to use this App. This is power to judges, advocates, attorneys, legal researchers, law students, and other legal professionals.

Also, NextLaw™ Legal Search Engine is a powerful professional tool because of the frequency of updates. The content of the App is updated on regular basis, and the user just needs internet connection for the App to update its content. There is constant interaction between the App and the NextLaw Web Server for updates, and after afterwards the App functions offline. This is complete ease, because the update takes place without the intervention of the user, which means, the user does not have to click any button for the App to update itself with newer files, once it detects an Internet connection.

The primary objectives of NextLaw Legal Search Engine are:

Mobility: Mobility means access to legal resources on the go, irrespective of the device, be it mobile or desktop.
Flexibility: NextLaw™ grants every subscriber the privilege of accessing their accounts via a maximum of two (2) devices, which is a laptop/desktop and a mobile smart device (phone or tablet).
Convenience: Access to legal resource has become extremely convenient, without the necessity of internet connectivity every time the user needs to search for legal resources.
Affordability: ONE SUBSCRIPTION, gives the subscribe access to all the Judgments/Legal Decisions, Court Rules, Statutes of Parliamentary/Provincial Legislation, Government Gazettes, Policies and Regulations, and Articles and Journals from legal experts on any legal subject, such as Labour Law, Criminal Law, Civil Proceedings, etc., instead of setting up multiple accounts for different categories of law.
Promptness: With NextLaw™ Legal Search Engine, legal research become faster and precise. The Search Engine deploys natural key words and Boolean search technologies in its design, which makes research easier, faster and accurate.