New Zealand Family Law Reports

New Zealand Family Law Reports

Practice

Family

Publication

Case Reports

Format

Online

Content

Cases

The New Zealand Family Law Reports is a specialist law report series focusing on all aspects of family law. It includes important decisions from the Family Court as well as relevant cases from other senior courts in New Zealand. Reported cases date from 1981 onwards and are selected by highly experienced authors for their relevance. This series is a quick and accurate reference that empowers practitioners to analyse their clients’ family law issues more effectively than ever before. New judgments are added regularly to ensure subscribers stay current.

General Information

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Legal practitioners and academic institutions

  • Abbreviation: NZFLR
  • First year of publication: 1981
  • Format: Online
  • Annual publishing frequency: 12–24 parts and 1 bound volume per year
  • Court coverage: Important decisions from the Family Court and key family law decisions from the Supreme Court, Court of Appeal and High Court.
  • General Editors: The General Editors are Professor Bill Atkin, Mark Henaghan, John Caldwell and Ruth Ballantyne. Bill Atkin BA LLM (VUW) is a professor of Law at Victoria University of Wellington. He was on the expert reference group for the Independent Panel examining the 2014 family justice reforms and the expert advisory group for the Law Commission’s project on relationship property. Mark Henaghan BA LLB(Hons) LLD (Otago), FRSNZ is a professor of law at the University of Auckland, specialising in family law, and is a member of the Family Court Revisioning Project. Ruth Ballantyne LLB BA(Hons) (Otago), is a Professional Practice Fellow at the University of Otago Faculty of Law. She has contributed to many titles on family law has also co-authored several academic pieces with Professor Mark Henaghan.

Why you should subscribe to this publication

  • The court coverage focuses on decisions from the Family Court but also includes important cases from all other senior courts in New Zealand.
  • The publication covers a wide range of topics in family law, including childcare, property and financial matters. This makes it very valuable to anyone who practises or has an active interest in family law and property law.
  • Having four General Editors with extensive experience in family law ensures that the cases selected highlight the most important developments in New Zealand family law while the headnotes produced are of the highest standard.

New Zealand Family Law Reports

31 May 2023 07:13

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