Judgments/Reports
New Zealand Unreported Judgments
Title: New Zealand Unreported Judgments
Format: Online Only
Servicing: Updated on a daily basis
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Synopsis: New Zealand Unreported Judgments (NZURJ) is New Zealand’s first database of searchable full-text judgments. The database comprises cases from the High Court, Supreme Court, Court of Appeal, Privy Council and employment cases, and Maori Land Court cases. Practical and easy to use, NZURJ contains over 5000 judgments and spans several years of New Zealand case law with full text of all judgments received from the High Court, the Court of Appeal, the Privy Council, the Supreme Court, the Employment Court, the Employment Relations Authorities, and the Maori Land Courts. As well as new cases (which have a 48 hour turnaround from the library receiving them) retrospective judgments are continuously being added to the database. Judgments can be located by case name, Court, Judge, parties, date, Court file number, and representation. Searches can also be made for precedents and legislation used in judgments.
Ideal for: Legal Practitioners, Academic Institutions
Related products: All NZ reports series, Looseleaf online publications, and LinxPlus.
Top District Court Reports
Title: District Court Reports
Consulting Author/s: Andrew Borrowdale
Format: Looseparts, Online, CD-Rom
Servicing: Ten parts per year
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Synopsis:The pace of development and the number of changes in the District Court is accelerating. The District Court Reports (DCR) reflect the increasing role of the District Court and provide a large selection of important cases, civil and criminal, from throughout New Zealand. Also included are selected High Court decisions that are not reported in the New Zealand Law Reports, and Youth Court decisions from time to time. DCR is much liked by users since it covers a wide range of cases. A good number of cases are sent directly by Judges themselves to be reported: a testimony that the publication is well used.
Ideal for: Lawyers, legal/public/university libraries, Justice Department.
Related products: Becroft and Hall's Transport Law, Garrow and Turkington's Criminal Law in New Zealand, Abbott and Thompson's District Courts Practice (Criminal), District Courts Practice (Civil), Cross on Evidence.
About the Author:Andrew Borrowdale, Parliamentary Counsel
Top New Zealand Law Reports
Title: New Zealand Law Reports
Editor: Bernard Robertson
Format: Hardcopy, online, CD-ROM
Servicing: 18 parts (3 bound volumes of 864 pages) per year, and an annual cumulative index.
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Synopsis: An essential tool for lawyers, Judges, libraries, legal agencies, local bodies, the Ministry of Justice, and government departments, New Zealand Law Reports (NZLR) is the official report series of New Zealand published by LexisNexis on behalf of the New Zealand Council of Law Reporting. It includes decisions of the Supreme Court of New Zealand, Court of Appeal and High Court. NZLR started in 1881 but complete sets have been deemed to start at 1861 and include a number of prior series.
NZLR maintains a high standard of accuracy (99.9%). All substantive Supreme Court decisions are reported, and are approved by the Supreme Court Bench prior to publication. Supreme Court decisions are reported with counsels' arguments (NZLR is the only report series to provide this).
Ideal for: Lawyers in practice and in commerce, Judges, law libraries, public libraries, legal agencies overseas, local bodies, Ministry of Justice and government departments.
Related Products: New Zealand Law Reports Leading Cases, New Zealand Case Citator, New Zealand Law Reports Cumulative Index
Appeals in cases reported / to be reported
Table of cases reported in current part
Judgments to be reported
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New Zealand Administrative Law Reports
Title: New Zealand Administrative Law Reports
Consulting editor: Dr Gerard McCoy QC
Format: Report series, Online and CD-ROM
Servicing: Eight parts per year
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Synopsis: This series, which commenced in 1976, principally reports selected decisions of New Zealand and, occasionally, Pacific Islands Courts on significant issues of administrative and public law. In particular, the majority of decisions reported in New Zealand Administrative Law Reports are judicial review and habeas corpus applications and decisions and appeals relating to accident compensation, immigration, social security and liquor licensing.
Ideal for: All legal practitioners, law libraries, public servants, and business people dealing with administrative law.
Related Products: New Zealand Law Reports, District Courts Practice (Civil), Sim's Court Practice and District Court Reports.
Top New Zealand Resource Management Appeals
Title: New Zealand Resource Management Appeals
Consulting Editor: Kenneth Palmer
Format: Hardcopy parts (binder available), Online and CD-ROM
Servicing: 12 parts per year. One bound volume with cumulative index.
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Synopsis: This report series was called the New Zealand Town Planning Appeals until 1992. It contains selected decisions of the Environment Court (formerly the Planning Tribunal), High Court, Court of Appeal and Supreme Court on Resource Management, environmental and local government issues.
New Zealand Resource Management Appeals have been designed for quick and easy reference. The parts are issued 12 times a year and a bound volume containing a cumulative index for the year is available annually. Back volumes are in stock (from Vol 9).
Ideal for: Local government, legal practitioners specialising in planning and all aspects of resource management law, government departments, law libraries.
Related products: Resource Management Bulletin
Top Resource Management Bulletin
Title:Resource Management Bulletin
Author/s: The authors vary from month-to month: generally, New Zealand practitioners and academics specialising in the field of environmental law.
Editorial Team: David Grinlinton, Judge Bollard, Richard Brabant.
Format: Hardcopy, online
Servicing: Eight issues per year.
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Synopsis: The Resource Management Bulletin is essential for those who need to understand resource management issues, the thinking of law-makers and government agencies, problem areas and future developments in resource management.
The editorial team brings together the foremost experts from professional practice and academia, to make the Bulletin the leading forum for timely discussion of resource management issues.
The Resource Management Bulletin has a wide mandate: to enable lawyers, planners, consultants, local and territorial authorities, architects, surveyors and many others to keep abreast of new legislation; to help readers gain an understanding of emerging case law; to evaluate new law against previous law, developing scientific knowledge, and global trends; to evaluate the ecological impact of new laws; to facilitate detailed consideration of the New Zealand regime in the context of international environmental law and Treaty of Waitangi obligations; to promote exchanges between lawyers, administrators, Judges, planners, environmental scientists and others operating in the resource management field.
Related products: New Zealand Resource Management Appeals.
Top New Zealand Conveyancing and Property Reports
Title: New Zealand Conveyancing and Property Reports
Consulting editor: Dr Don McMorland
Format: Hard copy, binder provided, and online
Servicing: Monthly
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Brief Synopsis:: New Zealand Conveyancing and Property Reports is a dedicated report series for anyone dealing with any property law issue. It features full text of the latest property law decisions and cases are carefully selected by the consulting editor.
With a dedicated property law focus, authoritative case selection and concise headnotes, New Zealand Conveyancing and Property Reports is a quick and accurate reference resource and a must have for any legal practitioner, academics and students involved in researching property and Conveyancing matters.
Ideal for: Legal practitioners, academics and students involved in researching property and Conveyancing matters.
Related Products: Hinde, McMorland and Sim, Land Law in New Zealand, Adams' Land Transfer and the Butterworths Conveyancing Bulletin
Top New Zealand Employment Law Reports
Title: New Zealand Employment Law Reports
Consulting editor: John Hughes
Format: Online, with a bound volume at the end of 10 updates.
Servicing: Monthly updates
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Synopsis: New Zealand Employment Law Reports provides practitioners, students and academics with an indispensible selection of the important and relevant case law in the Employment area, in one online database, with regular monthly updates reporting current cases.
Ideal for: Practitioners, students and academics
Related Products: Mazengarb’s Employment Law and the Employment Law Bulletin.
About the Author: John Hughes, Senior Lecturer, University of Canterbury.
Top New Zealand Procedural Cases
Title: New Zealand Procedural Cases
Author/s: None
Format: Online only (cases from 1986 to 1999 only)
Servicing: Not updated
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Synopsis: New Zealand Procedural Cases contains the most important New Zealand civil procedure cases from 1986 to 1999. Cases included provide an authoritative guide on the issues they deal with.
Companion Volumes: Sim’s Court Practice and District Courts Practice (Civil)
Ideal for: Anyone involved in civil litigation
Top New Zealand Family Law Reports
Title: New Zealand Family Law Reports
Author/s: Professor Bill Atkin, Professor Mark Henaghan, John Caldwell, Senior Lecturer
Format: Report Series, Online, CD-Rom
Servicing: Bi monthly, 24 Parts with Bound volume at the end of the year.
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Synopsis: The New Zealand Family Law Reports contain the full text of the latest important decisions from the Family Court, High Court, Court of Appeal, and Privy Council. Some Mental Health Tribunal and Youth Court decisions are also included. Designed for quick referencing, the decisions are headnoted for speedy analysis of the circumstances and effect of each case.
NZFLR is a good research tool for any one who wants to know about current cases dealing with Family law issues.
Ideal for: Practitioners, academics and students.
Related Products: Family Law Service, Family Law Journal
Top Linxplus
Title: LinxPlus
Managing Editor: Auckland, Wellington and Canterbury District Law Societies and LexisNexis NZ Limited
Format: Online
Servicing: Updated weekly by District Law Societies.
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Synopsis: LinxPlus is a leading online case law research tool. A joint venture between LexisNexis and the LinxPlus database Committee of the Auckland, Wellington, and Canterbury District Law Societies, the LinxPlus online database is updated weekly and features indexes of journal articles, and texts and seminars held by the District Law Societies as well as over 75,000 case summaries which are hyperlinked to relevant LexisNexis publications and Report series. Linxplus also contains a large number of full-text judgments in pdf format and indexes of journal articles, and texts and seminars held by the District Law Societies.
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