Issue 475 | 20 April 2020
LexisNexis® News
 
              
                 
 
 
LexisNexis New Zealand has launched a new resource to support customers during the COVID-19 Level 4 lockdown.

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

Click here to register today.

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

Click here to register today.

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

Click here to register today.

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

Click here to register today.

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, 21st of April 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: 60 min

Click here to register today.
Wednesday, 22nd of April at 2pm

The sessions will provide an orientation on Lexis Advance and tips for research efficiency and time saving. Learn about the extensive legal resources you have available on-line, how to filter search results, create links to your favourite 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 customise your publications pod and find favourites, ensuring that the platform is working efficiently for your personal research needs.
Duration: 60 min

Click here to register today.
Thursday, 23rd of April 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: 60 min

Click here to register today.
Tuesday, 28th of April at 2pm

The sessions will provide an orientation on Lexis Advance and tips for research efficiency and time saving. Learn about the extensive legal resources you have available on-line, how to filter search results, create links to your favourite 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 customise your publications pod and find favourites, ensuring that the platform is working efficiently for your personal research needs.
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.
 
Commercial Law in New Zealand

Service 66 – March 2020 is now available online.

Commentary has been updated for chapters on: Fair Trading Act 1986; Consumer Guarantees Act 1993; and export trade contracts. Most of the chapters in the Competition Law section have also been updated.

 
Practical Guidance: Employment

The COVID-19 Toolkit for Employers is now available which includes the Guidance Note on ‘Dealing with the impact of widespread disease on the workplace’.

Latest legal updates
Workers impacted by Covid-19 offered seasonal work

Practical Guidance: Employment Law for Employers

Latest legal updates
Sistema workers on health and safety strike
 
Practical Guidance: Family

Latest legal updates
Court of Appeal rules in favour of domestic violence victim fleeing Australia with child in Hague Convention case

COVID-19: Family Court operating for priority proceedings only

COVID-19: Lawyer’s guidance for parents with shared custody during COVID-19 lockdown

COVID-19: Bailiffs will serve only urgent Family Court documents during COVID-19

High Court granted parenting order despite son’s rejection of his “uncool” father
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 currently unavailable. Some textbooks are available in eBook format.
 
Intellectual Property Law

Service 88 – March 2020 is now available online.

The service contains legislative updates to the Copyright Act 1994, Copyright (General Matters) Regulations 1995 and Trade Marks Act 2002. The service includes updated annotated commentary on Parts 2 and 7 of the Copyright Act 1994 and Part 5 of the Patents Act 2013. The service also contains an updated Index.

New Zealand Intellectual Property Journal

Volume 9, Part 3 is now available online.

The issue features an editorial on plant variety rights by Doug Calhoun and an article by Susan Corbett on hyperlinking from New Zealand-hosted websites.
 
Textbook
 
Alberto Costi (editor)

RRP*incl GST: $220.00
ISBN: 9781877511042 (book)
Publication date: March 2020
*Please note hardcopy textbooks are currently unavailable. Some textbooks are available in eBook format.
 
Service 94 (updated to 22 October 2019) is now available online.

Service 94 features significant updates to:

- the "Banking" and "Companies" titles as a result of the Financial Markets (Derivatives Margin and Benchmarking) Reform Amendment Act 2019 of which Part 1 (ss 3 – 31) came into force on 1 September 2019;

- the "Charities", "Family Protection and Other Family Property Arrangements", "Information", "Maori Affairs", "Prisons and Enforcement of Sentences", "Sentencing" titles as a result of the Kāinga Ora–Homes and Communities Act 2019 which came into force on 1 October 2019;

- the "Children and Young Persons" title, as a result of the provisions of the Children, Young Persons, and Their Families (Oranga Tamariki) Legislation Act 2017 that came into force on 1 July 2019, and the Oranga Tamariki Legislation Act 2019 and the Family Violence Act 2018, both of which came into force on 1 July 2019;

- the "Environment", "Fisheries", "Recreation and Entertainment", and "Water" titles as a result of the Conservation (Indigenous Freshwater Fish) Amendment Act 2019 which came into force on 22 October 2019;

- the "Husband and Wife" title, as a result of the Family Violence Act 2018, which came into force on 1 July 2019;

- the Māori Affairs" and "Treaty of Waitangi" titles as a result of the Ngāti Rangi Claims Settlement Act 2019 which came into force on 1 August 2019;

- the "Parent and Child" title, as a result of the provisions of the Children, Young Persons, and Their Families (Oranga Tamariki) Legislation Act 2017 that came into force on 1 July 2019, and the Oranga Tamariki Legislation Act 2019 and the Family Violence Act 2018, both of which came into force on 1 July 2019;

- the "Lessor and Lessee" title as a result of the Residential Tenancies Amendment Act 2019, of which ss 1 to 3, 5(1) and (2), 23, and 47 and the Schedule came into force on 1 August 2019, and the remainder of Part 1 and ss 26(1), 30(1) and (3), 43, and 44 came into force on 27 August 2019;

- the "Local Government" title as a result of the Local Government Act 2002 Amendment Act 2019 which came into force on 22 October 2019; and

- the "Water" title as a result of the Health (Drinking Water) Amendment Act 2019 which came into force on 1 August 2019.

 
Hinde McMorland & Sim Land Law in New Zealand

March 2020 updates are now available online and include updates to Chapter 9 Title by Registration.

Practical Guidance: Property

Latest legal update: Section 143 caveat lapsing notices will not be actioned for the time being

Latest legal update: Interim guideline for remote verification of client identity published by LINZ
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: May 2020
*Please note hardcopy textbooks are currently unavailable. Some textbooks are available in eBook format.
 
Textbook
 
Derek Nolan (editor)

RRP*incl GST: $220.00 $198.00 (pre-order price)
ISBN: 9781988546247
Publication date: June 2020
*Please note hardcopy textbooks are currently unavailable. Some textbooks are available in eBook format.
 
Textbook
 
Lindsay Breach

RRP*incl GST: $120.00
ISBN: 9780947514617 (book)
Publication date: November 2019
*Please note hardcopy textbooks are currently unavailable. Some textbooks are available in eBook format.
 
Textbooks
 
Alana Thomas & Corin Merrick

RRP*incl GST: $120.00
ISBN: 9780947514891 (book)
Publication date: October 2019
 
 
Simon Mount QC & Max Harris (editors)

RRP*incl GST: $85.00
ISBN: 9781988546070 (book)
Publication date: December 2019
 
 
Various Contributors

RRP*incl GST: $30.00
ISBN: NZWLJ2019VOL3
Publication date: December 2019
 
 
Matthew S R Palmer (general editor)

RRP*incl GST: $200.00 $180.00 (pre-order price)
ISBN: 9780947514914 (book)
Publication date: May 2020
*Please note hardcopy textbooks are currently unavailable. Some textbooks are available in eBook format.
 
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.

© LexisNexis NZ Limited 2020. All rights reserved.