Issue 531 | 05 September 2022
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Thursday, 8th of September at 4pm

New Zealand Forms and Precedents is a wide-ranging, encyclopedic resource of modern precedents designed to provide a precedent for every ordinary legal transaction and some extraordinary ones that are not simply academic or court documents. New Zealand Forms and Precedents' authoritative and comprehensive coverage will give you a greater ability to provide forms and precedents appropriate for your clients’ needs and save you time with drafting. The authors of the titles are specialists in their fields and use a modern drafting approach, making the precedents very user-friendly. This session will show you how to access and use the forms, investigate recent updates and provide an opportunity for you to learn what you need to know about this iconic resource on Lexis Advance.
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In this session, we provide an orientation to Lexis Advance. Learn to harness the power of the Lexis Advance search engine to find commentary, case law, legislation, forms and precedents, and practical guidance on all different areas of law. This session will enable you to find what you need quickly and save you time. 
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Attend this session to learn how to link directly to commentary and relevant cases on every section of legislation with LexCite™. Having attended this session you will better understand how CaseBase® and LexCite work as case law and legislation citators, and benefit from your improved understanding of how to use Casebase to review the case summary and access other cases that have similar facts and arguments.
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Barristers, improve your research skills and save time using Lexis Advance. In this Bar-focused training session, we will look at adapting Lexis Advance tools to enable you to work in Advance in the way you want. We will review finding cases using CaseBase, the New Zealand Law Reports series and Unreported Judgements; and how to find commentary on legislation using our legislation citator “LexCite”. In addition, we will look at the high-level commentary of 160 titles from the Laws of New Zealand as well as international content that may be in your subscription (eg: Halsbury's® Laws of Australia; Halsbury's Law of England).
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Morison’s Company and Securities Law

Service 205 is now available online.

The following chapters have been updated in Morison’s Company Law: Distributions to shareholders, Directors’ powers and duties, and Voidable transactions. 
The following chapter has been updated in Morison’s Securities Law: Anti-Money Laundering and Countering Financing of Terrorism. 
Heath and Whale on Insolvency

Service 54 is now available online. 

Commentary in the following chapters has been updated: Introduction, Personal Insolvency, Receivership, Corporate Rescue, Antecedent Transactions, Secured Debt, Directors’ Duties, Special Entities, Court Procedure, Forms and Precedents. The Banking (Prudential Supervision) Act 1989 has also been updated. 
Practical Guidance: Business Law

The subtopic “Social media as a communication tool” has been updated by Steven Price. 
Textbook
 
Kate Tokeley & Victoria Stace (editors)

RRP*incl GST: $160.00 $144.00 (pre-order price)
ISBN: 9781988546780 (book)
Publication date: August 2022
 
Hall’s Sentencing

Service 185 is now available online.

The Prisoners’ and Victims Claims Act 2005 and Victims’ Rights Act 2002 have been amended. Commentary has been updated for Introduction: Principles of Sentencing, Sentencing Act 2002, Parole Act 2002, Sentencing Levels, and Appendices I and II.
Becroft and Hall’s Transport Law

Service 212 is now available online.

The Land Transport Act 1998, Motor Vehicle Sales Regulations 2003, Motor Vehicle Sales (Motor Vehicle Disputes Tribunal Funding Levy) Regulations 2003, and the Summary Proceedings Act 1957 have been amended. Commentary regarding the Land Transport Act 1998 and Sentencing Principles and Practice has been updated.
 
Mazengarb’s Employment Law

Service 271 is now available online.

This service updates the Employment Relations Act 2000: Part 1 Key provisions, Part 2 Preliminary provisions, and Part 6D Rest breaks and meal breaks. This service also updates: Contractual aspects of Employment; the Minimum Wage Act 1983; the Parental Leave and Employment Protection Act 1987; the Human Rights Act 1993; the Health and Safety at Work Act 2015; and the Accident Compensation Act 2001.

Completely new commentary has been added for the Protected Disclosures (Protection of Whistleblowers) Act 2022.
 
Fisher on Relationship Property

Service 100 is available online.

The following chapters have been updated in this service with new case commentary: Chapter 1 (Nature of relationship property), Chapter 4 (Trusts), Chapter 5 (Agreements), Chapter 6 (Variation of trusts) and Chapter 18 (Jurisdiction, orders and implementation).
 
Practical Guidance: Intellectual Property

The following topics have been updated by Tania Goatley and Sébastien Aymeric, Bell Gully: IP Fundamentals New Zealand, Intellectual Property disputes, Patent infringements, Copyright infringement, Domain names disputes, and Designs infringements. 
Textbook
 
Dr. David Harvey                               

RRP*incl GST: $180.00 $162.00 (pre-order price)
ISBN: 9781988546919 (book)
Publication date: October 2022
 
District Courts Practice (Civil)

Service 187 is now available online.

This service includes updated commentary on Part 4 Parties, Part 12 Summary Judgment, Part 13 Summary proceedings for recovery of land, and Part 14 Costs.
 
Conveyancing Bulletin

Volume 20 issue 6 is now available online.

This issue includes comment on the latest key cases on sale of land, caveats and unit titles, as well as two decisions dealing with the removal of a registered owner from the register of companies. 
Textbook
 
Monique van Alphen Fyfe

RRP*incl GST: $50.00
ISBN: 9781988546803 (book)
ISBN: 9781988546810 (ebook)
Publication date: 30 May 2022
 
Wills and Succession

Service 79 is available online.

The following chapters have been updated with case commentary this service: Chapter 4 (Formal requirements), Chapter 6 (Construction of wills), Chapter 7 (Gifts by will) and Chapter 16 (Māori wills).
 
Textbooks
 
Dr Lindsay breach

RRP inc GST: $200.00 $180 (pre-order price)
ISBN: 9781988598017 (book)
Publication date: January 2023
 
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