Legal Studies
Introduction to the New Zealand Legal System, Tenth Edition
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Title: Introduction to the New Zealand Legal System, Tenth Edition
Author/s: Ray Mulholland
ISBN: 9780408716338
Price: $109.52 excl. GST and Freight & Handling
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Brief Synopsis: The successful and popular text Introduction to the New Zealand Legal System now enters its tenth edition and is expanded to include significant developments in the law since publication of the ninth edition. New paragraphs have been added on the Employment Relations Authority, the Personal Property Securities Act 1999 and the Property (Relationships) Act 1976. Useful features such as the abbreviations of report series and the case appendices are retained for easy student reference.
Publishing Date: 22/04/2002
Format: Soft cover
TopLegal Method in New Zealand
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Title: Legal Method in New Zealand
Author/s: Rick Bigwood
ISBN: 9780408716291
Price: $140.81 excl. GST and Freight & Handling |
Brief Synopsis: Legal Method in New Zealand explores the methods and principles by which practitioners, Judges and academics research, analyse and present the law. Highly relevant and ambitious, this book: -
- Identifies historical, local and international influences affecting New Zealand law
- Examines aspects of jurisprudence, legal method, and forms of expression most characteristic of New Zealand
- Explores more effective methods of researching, reasoning and presenting the law
- Predicts the way in which our jurisprudence and legal methods might develop
LexisNexis is proud to present these essays that result from a conference hosted by the Legal Research Foundation. The contributors to Legal Method in New Zealand are some of New Zealand and Australia's finest jurists.
Publishing Date: 12/02/2001
Format: Soft Cover
TopReflections on the New Zealand Law Commission
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Title: Reflections on the New Zealand Law Commission
Author/s: Rt Hon Geoffrey Palmer
ISBN: 9780408718806
Price: $106.68 excl. GST and Freight & Handling
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Brief Synopsis: This book celebrates the connections made over the 20 years since inception of the Law Commission by publishing the papers from the seminar held in 2006. The Law Commission is New Zealand’s premier legal research unit; it produces reports and instructions for law reform, and attracts scholars and writers to contribute.
The book collects and presents the seminar papers, into an essay book, in the “legal method” style.
The book includes the keynote speech from the Honourable Justice Michael Kirby, High Court of Australia, the first President of the Australian Law Reform Commission.
The essays provide a reflection and a respect for the signal achievement of the Commission’s oeuvre and influence in New Zealand law reform in these first 20 years.
About the contributors:
• Hon Justice David Baragwanath
Judge of the High Court of New Zealand
Judge of the Court of Appeal of Samoa
• Rt Hon Dame Sian Seerpoohi Elias GNZM
Chief Justice of New Zealand
• His Excellency the Rt Hon Sir Kenneth James Keith ONZ KBE
Judge of the International Court of Justice
• Hon Justice Michael Donald Kirby AC, CMG
Justice of the High Court of Australia
• Hon Justice J Bruce Robertson
Judge of the New Zealand Court of Appeal
• His Excellency the Hon Anand Satyanand DCNZM, PCNZM, QSO, KT ST J, Governor-General of New Zealand
• Rt Hon Sir (Arthur) Owen Woodhouse ONZ, KBE, DSC
Former President of the Court of Appeal 1981–86
Publishing Date: 18/07/2007
Format: Soft cover
TopThe New Zealand Legal System, Fourth Edition
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Title: The New Zealand Legal System, Fourth Edition
Author/s: Morag McDowell, Duncan Webb
ISBN: 978 0408718394
Price: $87.71 excl. GST and Freight & Handling
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Brief Synopsis: This is one of the “best all-round introductory” books available: New Zealand Legal System, Structures and Processes provides all the ingredients for successful law study; structures, processes, and method. The authors present and clearly explain the basic functions and qualities of law; the concepts are easy to access and easy to read.
The Fourth Edition keeps you up to date with evolutionary and radical changes in the law, such as the Lawyers and Conveyancers Act, the creation of the Supreme Court, and developments in Treaty issues in respect of the foreshore and seabed.
Publishing Date: 25/05/2006
Format: Soft cover
TopStatute Law in New zealand, 4th Edition
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Title: Statute Law in New Zealand, 4th Edition
Author/s: JF Burrows, RI Carter
ISBN: 9780408719230
Price: $95.00 excl. GST and Freight & Handling
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Brief Synopsis: Statute Law in New Zealand, 4th edition, provides a clear and comprehensive guide to statutory interpretation, preparation and drafting. It includes discussion of the Treaty of Waitangi and the New Zealand Bill of Rights Act 1990 and covers the developments in New Zealand statute law over the last six years. There is discussion of the procedures for the enactment of legislation in our modern MMP Parliament, and the progress of new styles of drafting. There is also analysis of recent case law, with a focus on issues of interpretation.
Publishing Date: February 2009