Issue 478 | 01 June 2020
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LexisNexis New Zealand has launched a new resource to support customers during the COVID-19 pandemic and changing Alert Levels.

Our new site, www.lexisnexis.co.nz/COVID19 has been developed to provide free access to vital research content and information as it relates to our situation in New Zealand. Explore a library of research, articles and commentary across specific practice areas directly related to COVID-19 issues, with content updated regularly as developments are announced.

Access product user guidesvideo tutorials and CPD-earning webinars quickly and easily to help you utilise your suite of LexisNexis solutions.  

Need more training on Lexis Advance®, Lexis® Draft or Lexis Red®?
Contact a trainer here to set-up a virtual classroom that fits your schedule.

 
LexisNexis ONDEMAND webinars are delivered by subject experts and accompanied by a short comprehension quiz. Our latest ONDEMAND webinars are as follows:


Guidance on the principles and practical issues associated with workplace disciplinary processes
and investigations.
Duration: 60 min

Click here to register today.

The webinar looks at the recurring issues of fairness and reward that are commonly encountered during inheritance disputes and provides legal advisors, arbitrators and mediators with tools to advise and manage these when drafting or advising clients on wills, estates and succession. 
Duration: 60 min

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This webinar examines the ongoing challenges of knowing your customer and practicalities of ensuring appropriate customer due diligence in an increasingly digital world in order to meet AML/CFT requirements.
Duration: 60 min

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Applying for a court order to administer a deceased estate when a person dies without a will is often complicated. This webinar appraises the requirements for an application of intestacy; the selection of appropriate evidence in support of the application and the recognition of factors that affect entitlement.
Duration: 60 min

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The application process for Letters of Administration with the will annexed differs from probate applications and knowing what matters need to be considered and addressed and supported by evidence, or indeed omitted, when making an application, is not always clear. This webinar provides guidance on recognising the key requirements for the preparation of a valid will and the requirements for making an improperly executed will declared valid.
Duration: 60 min

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To find out more about the content webinars, click via the eStore here.
Did you know that our LexisNexis training webinars are complimentary and most are 
CPD compliant? 
Tuesday, 2nd of June at 1pm

This session will focus on how CaseBase and LexCite work on Lexis Advance. Both of these provide valuable insights into the material on Lexis Advance that relates to the primary law you are investigating. Learn how to access this information with ease, saving time and maximising research efficiency.
Duration: 60 min

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Wednesday, 3rd of June at 1pm

This session shows you how to browse and search your digital versions of key LexisNexis publications like Sim’s Court Practice and Fisher on Matrimonial and Relationship Property. We show you how to quickly find, highlight and annotate content for effective offline use of publications when you are out of the office.
Duration: 30 min

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Thursday, 4th of June at 4pm

This is an overview of LexisNexis employment publications, Mazengarbs and Personal Grievances, the Employment Law Bulletin, NZ Law Journal, Linxplus, Privacy Law and Practice, The Laws of New Zealand Employment titles, including the employment Practical Guidance modules. Use these publications and the Practical Guidance modules, compiled by expert practitioners in their field to enhance your research productivity. View the up to date contents, plus various tips for efficient research. Become familiar with constructing search terms and using simple filters, setting up alerts along with specific topic search alerts and folders.
Duration: 60 min

Click here to register today.
Thursday, 4th of June at 4pm

This session shows you how to browse and search your digital versions of key LexisNexis publications. We show you how to quickly find, highlight and annotate content for effective offline use of publications when you are out of the office.
Duration: 45 min

Click here to register today.
Friday, 5th of June at 10am

Improve your research with Lexis Advance in our Bar-focused training session. Discover how to make the most of the big red search box, filter your search results, create links to your favourite publications, highlight and annotate content, create your own work folders to organise your research.
Duration: 60 min

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Tuesday, 9th of June at 3pm

Lexis Draft is a legal drafting solution. It is a Microsoft Word and Microsoft Outlook add-in ribbon that helps you draft faster and more efficiently. Lexis Draft contains legal proofreading, editorial review, research and analytical tools for accurate, consistent and efficient drafting. It checks for inconsistencies in documents, flags areas that need your attention and links directly to your LexisNexis services without leaving Word – saving you time. 
Duration: 30 min

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Wednesday, 10th of June at 11am

LexisNexis Practical Guidance (NZ) offers the practically-focused content that lawyers need to conduct a new matter. Guidance, practice tips, legislation, cases, checklists, tools, forms and precedents are all in one place and in the context of a lawyer’s workflow. This session will focus on what is offered in Practical Guidance and how it integrates with Lexis Advance to provide a practical approach to researching.
Duration: 60 min

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Thursday, 11th of June at 4pm

The Laws of New Zealand is an encyclopaedic work updated regularly reliably stating the whole of the law of New Zealand – statutory, regulatory and judicial, including extensive cross-referencing to Halsbury's Laws of England and Halsbury's® Laws of Australia. Authors of this prestigious work include Judges, academics, and senior members of the profession. The authors give the publication its authority through their specialist and practical knowledge of New Zealand law. Learn about the 150+ titles in LONZ and how to work with these efficiently.
Duration: 60 min

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Monday, 15th of June at 1pm

Lexis Draft is a legal drafting solution. It is a Microsoft Word and Microsoft Outlook add-in ribbon that helps you draft faster and more efficiently. Lexis Draft contains legal proofreading, editorial review, research and analytical tools for accurate, consistent and efficient drafting. It checks for inconsistencies in documents, flags areas that need your attention and links directly to your LexisNexis services without leaving Word – saving you time.
Duration: 60 min

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Thursday, 18th of June at 4pm

This webinar covers an overview of LexisNexis criminal publications including textbooks online. Join us for an overview of our criminal materials, Garrow and Turkington, and Halls sentencing, Abbot & Thompson – District Courts Practice, Cross on evidence, Linxplus, The New Zealand Law Reports and the CaseBase Case Citator. Look at the Practical Guidance Criminal module, covering District Court Litigation, High Court content, and the Criminal Forms and Precedents. NZ unreported judgements, Simms court practice, Becroft and Halls transport law will also be looked at during this session.
Duration: 60 min

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Thursday, 18th of June at 4pm

This session examines methods of conducting searches on Lexis Advance, from understanding the algorithm that runs behind the scenes of Lexis Advance, to applying advanced filters to generate effective results. Learn to set up alerts and folders, share documents, customise your publications pod and favourites, ensuring that the platform is working efficiently for your research needs.
Duration: 45 min

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Tuesday, 23rd of June at 3pm

This session will provide knowledge on the basic features and functionalities of Lexis Advance. Make use of the red search box for general searches and be able to filter and narrow your results. Get familiar in using the alerts and favourites. Utilise the different pods such as your history and publications and the availability of creating your own work folders to organise your research, documents and matter you are working on.
Duration: 45 min

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Thursday, 25th of June at 4pm

In this session, you’ll learn how to maximise your efficiency using Lexis Advance, allowing you more time for further legal research and activities. View the extensive legal resources you have online, how to filter search results, create links to your favourites publications, learn how to annotate and put leading content into your own work folders for easy access of research materials. We will discuss time saving methods on how to conduct searches to customize your publications pod and find favourites, ensuring that the platform is working for your research needs.
Duration: 60 min

Click here to register today.
Thursday, 25th of June at 1pm

This session shows you how to browse and search your digital versions of key LexisNexis publications like Sim’s Court Practice and Fisher on Matrimonial and Relationship Property. We show you how to quickly find, highlight and annotate content for effective offline use of publications when you are out of the office.
Duration: 60 min

Click here to register today.
Friday, 26th of June at 10am

Improve your research with Lexis Advance in our Bar-focused training session. Discover how to make the most of the big red search box, filter your search results, create links to your favourite publications, highlight and annotate content, create your own work folders to organise your research.
Duration: 60 min

Click here to register today.
Unable to attend our webinars? For a whole host of additional learning material including videos and guides, click here to access the LexisNexis Knowledge Network.
 
Company and Securities Law Bulletin

Issue 5 is now available online.

This issue features headnotes on Lodge Real Estate Ltd v Commerce Commission [2020] NZSC 25 and Bathurst Resources Ltd v L&M Coal Holdings Ltd [2020] NZCA 113.
 
Employment Law Bulletin

Issue 2 is now available online.

This issue focuses on the theme of “access to justice”.

Practical Guidance: Employment

Latest legal update
Former Auckland Council employee who accepted bribe sentenced to home detention

Practical Guidance: Employment Law for Employers

Latest legal update
SkyCity proposing to slash rostered staff by around 700
 
Fisher on Relationship Property

Fisher on Relationship Property 94 (13 May 2020) includes updated case commentary in Chapter 1 (Nature of relationship property); Chapter 4 (Trusts); Chapter 6 (Variation of trusts and agreements on dissolution); Chapter 9 (Protecting the non-owner spouse or partner) and Chapter 15 (Debts).

Practical Guidance: Family

Latest legal updates
Omnibus bill will restore the right to legal representation in the Family Court

Budget for Family Court reform and COVID-19 backlog of custody disputes passed
Textbooks
 
Henaghan & Atkin et al

RRP*incl GST: $165.00
ISBN: 9781988546100 (book)
Publication date: December 2019
 
 
LNNZ

RRP*incl GST: $140.00
ISBN: 9781988546186 (book) – two volume set
Publication date: December 2019
 
 
Mark Henaghan & Bill Atkin

RRP*incl GST: $160.00
ISBN: 9780947514969 (book)
Publication date: March 2020
*Please note hardcopy textbooks are now available on our eStore.
 
Textbooks
 
Alberto Costi (editor)

RRP*incl GST: $220.00
ISBN: 9781877511042 (book)
Publication date: March 2020
 
 
Maria Hook & Jack Wass

RRP*incl GST: $200.00 $180.00 (pre-order price)
ISBN: 9780947514112 (book)
Publication date: July 2020
*Please note hardcopy textbooks are now available on our eStore.
 
Butterworths® Conveyancing Bulletin

Issue 19.3 is now available online.

This issue includes comment on key cases in the areas of Sale of land, Freehold covenants, Residential tenancies, Cross-leases and Wrongly placed structures.

Hinde McMorland & Sim Land Law in New Zealand

April updates are now online. These include updates to Chapter 9 Title by Registration and Chapter 10 Caveats, as well as the COVID-19 Response (Urgent Management Measures) Legislation Act 2020 amendments to the Residential Tenancies Act 1986.
Textbooks
 
Don McMorland & Thomas Gibbons

RRP*incl GST: $180.00
ISBN: 9781988546179 (book)
Publication date: December 2019
 
 
Don McMorland

RRP*incl GST: $220.00 $198.00 (pre-order price)
ISBN: 9781988546230
Publication date: June 2020
*Please note hardcopy textbooks are now available on our eStore.
 
Textbook
 
Derek Nolan (editor)

RRP*incl GST: $220.00 $198.00 (pre-order price)
ISBN: 9781988546247
Publication date: July 2020
*Please note hardcopy textbooks are now available on our eStore.
 
Law of Trusts

Law of Trusts 57 (May 2020) includes updated Forms and Precedents by Chris Kelly. These updated Forms and Precedents include references to the Trusts Act 2019.

Case commentary has been updated in Chapter 4 (Administration of Trusts); Chapter 5 (Variation of Trusts); Chapter 8 (Charitable Trusts) and Appendix A (Validity of Trusts).
Textbook
 
Lindsay Breach

RRP*incl GST: $120.00
ISBN: 9780947514617 (book)
Publication date: November 2019
*Please note hardcopy textbooks are now available on our eStore.
 
Textbooks
 
Simon Mount QC & Max Harris (editors)

RRP*incl GST: $85.00
ISBN: 9781988546070 (book)
Publication date: December 2019
 
 
Matthew S R Palmer (general editor)

RRP*incl GST: $200.00
ISBN: 9780947514914 (book)
Publication date: May 2020
*Please note hardcopy textbooks are now available on our eStore.
 
Disclaimer: This service is intended to provide a summary of information recently made available on the LexisNexis online legal platform. The contents of Summing Up do not purport to be professional advice on any particular matter. The publishers therefore accept no liability for any claim or other action that may arise from the use of the information provided in this publication.

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