Alerts are the feature that turns JADE from a research tool into a monitoring system. Set up an alert on a provision, case, or topic, and JADE will email you when something new is published that matches.

Setting up your first alert

Go to the My JADE tab and select “Alerts.” Click “Create new alert.” You can set alerts on specific legislation sections, individual cases, courts, or keyword topics. Choose your notification frequency: immediate, daily digest, or weekly summary.

Five alerts every practitioner should set up

1. Your most-cited statutory provision. Whatever section you return to most often — set an alert. You’ll know within hours when a new decision considers it.

2. Your primary jurisdiction’s Court of Appeal. Stay across significant appellate decisions without scanning daily cause lists.

3. A landmark case in your practice area. Monitor it. When a new decision cites it, you’ll see the context immediately.

4. A provision currently before parliament. Legislation alerts track amendments. When a provision you’re watching is amended, you’ll see the updated version in JADE within hours of assent.

5. A competing authority’s key case. If there’s a case the other side relies on, monitor it. If a new decision distinguishes or questions it, you want to know first.

Which frequency should I choose?

Daily digest is the right choice for most practitioners. You get one email each morning with everything new. It’s thorough without being overwhelming.

Immediate is best for a provision under active judicial consideration — when a decision could land any day and you need to know the moment it does.

Weekly summary suits broad monitoring topics where you want to stay informed but don’t need instant notification.

Practitioners who set up alerts in their first week of using JADE Professional stay at four times the rate of those who don’t. The reason is simple: alerts make JADE part of your daily workflow rather than a tool you visit occasionally.