LexisNexis NZ Online

LexisNexis NZ Online is our online research platform, providing a premium collection of comprehensive legal information for primary and secondary research purposes. In addition, it assists our customers in undertaking research in the financial, business and regulatory sectors.

We have listed a few tips and tricks below to facilitate your research within LexisNexis NZ Online. If you’d like to have these delivered straight to your inbox, simply ask your trainer about subscribing to our weekly e-newsletter ‘Summing Up’.

• Re-sizing Your Computer Screen
• Searching for cases that refer to multiple statutes and sections
• Browsing a source
• Phrase searching
• Searching all subscribed sources
• Searching for plurals
• Finding the District Courts Rules
• Finding delegated legislation
• Saving your search results
• Signing out from LexisNexis NZ Online

Re-sizing Your Computer Screen

Re-sizing your screen may make it easier to work and view online content, and is a good option for live meetings via your computer. To re-size your computer screen follow the steps below:

1. Right click from your desktop.
2. Click "Properties".
3. Click on the last tab option: "Settings".
4. Select your size from the options, using the "Screen resolution" gauge.
5. When the size is chosen, click "OK".
6. Select "Yes" when the dialogue box below appears - you are given 15 seconds before the screen reverts to its original size

Searching for cases that refer to multiple statutes and sections

To find cases that refer to multiple statutes and sections on LexisNexis NZ Online:

1. From the "Cases" tab, type the statute name and section into the search terms box. Include other statute names and sections, or possibly a repealed statute and section. Use the "or" connector between the two statutes.
2. Click "Search". This search finds cases relating to the statutes referred to, as well as any sections referred to.
3. Narrow your case search by selecting a particular Court, as listed in the browse tab on the left-hand side of the screen.

Browsing a source

Use the "Browse" option if you would like to view the table of contents for an online publication.

To browse the table of contents of The Laws of New Zealand for example, click on the red "Commentary" tab and then select The Laws of New Zealand in the "Sources" box. Then click "Browse" at the top left of the page.

Phrase searching

If you type in multiple search terms, they will be treated as an exact phrase, so you do not need to use quotation marks. For example, if you type in personal liability of director you will only find documents that contain that exact phrase.

Note however that using the singular word form will retrieve the singular, plural, and possessive forms of most words, so you will also find documents containing the phrase personal liability of directors.

If you do not wish to be that specific with your search you will need to separate the words you are looking for with connectors such as and, or, w/s, w/p. Also use the truncation symbol ! to find alternate forms of your search terms.

Searching all subscribed sources

To search across all of your available sources, click on the 'General' tab of LexisNexis NZ Online and type your search term(s) into the 'Search Terms' box. Ensure that 'All Subscribed Sources' is selected in the 'Sources' box, and then click 'Search'.

If too many results are returned, you can reduce them by:

• Entering another search term in the 'Narrow search' box at the top right of the page; or
• Organising results by publication title where the search terms appeared using the 'Result Groups' list on the left-hand side of the screen.

Searching for plurals

Using the singular word form will retrieve the singular, plural, and possessive forms of most words. For example, city would find city, cities, city's, and cities'. Child would find child, child's and children.

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Finding the District Courts Rules

To find the District Courts Rules and Forms use either:

• District Courts Practice (Civil) by browsing through the legislation to find the District Court Rules and forms within the Schedule; or
• New Zealand Regulations by searching for the District Court Rules in Legislation Title from the "Legislation" tab.

Finding delegated legislation

To find subordinate or delegated legislation - including rules, bylaws and regulations - issued pursuant to a particular Statute:

1. Click on the red Legislation tab and New Zealand Statutes will appear in the sources box. (Or; choose the Search link next to New Zealand Statutes in your Sources on the homepage.)
2. Then type the name of the Act, e.g. Family Proceedings Act 1980, in the Legislation Title box and search.
3. View the first document in the list of results, called 'Legislative history - Family Proceedings Act 1980', by clicking on those words.
4. From the Legislative History page, click the blue 'Pursuant' button.
5. The result is a list of notices, orders, and regulations that have been made in accordance with certain provisions of the Family Proceedings Act 1980.

Saving your search results

When your online search retrieves results that you want to refer to again, you may save the search and run it again later. Saved searches remain until you delete them from Research Manager.

Signing out from LexisNexis online

You can sign out and close your session online with LexisNexis NZ Online in either of two ways:

• Click the X in the upper right corner of the screen to close your browser and the LexisNexis research session.
• Click Sign Out on the top navigation bar. You'll be disconnected from LexisNexis NZ Online and the Sign-In screen will be displayed. You can then sign back in if you wish, go to a different web location, or leave the Sign-In screen displayed for the next user.