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Discover comprehensive coverage of New Zealand's construction law landscape in LexisNexis's commentary, authored by two leading construction lawyers.

Explore the application of the law of contract and law of torts, statutory controls, contracts for professional services, construction contracts, subcontracts, supply contracts and dispute resolution.

The commercial law portfolio provides current commentary through a range of online looseleaf publications including Morison’s Company and Securities Law. These publications consist of both commentary and legislation, including annotated legislation. It also contains a bi-monthly bulletin that provides up-to-date commentary on significant developments within company and securities law.

LexisNexis offers an extensive range of Criminal law publications covering criminal sentencing, transport and traffic law, criminal procedure, and evidence.

LexisNexis offers an extensive coverage of employment law across our publications. The flagship title Mazengarb’s Employment Law includes extensive section by section commentary to the Employment Relations Act, Employment Court Regulations, Health and Safety at Work Act, and more. Dedicated publications on personal grievances and privacy law and practice ensure these areas are covered in-depth. The Employment Law Bulletin will keep you up-to-date with the latest developments and emerging issues, and for fast answers on employment law matters Practical Guidance Employment offers easy to find guidance, checklists and precedents.

This portfolio provides coverage of various aspects of environmental, resource management and local government law in Aotearoa New Zealand. It includes a comprehensive overview of the sources of environmental law authored by highly regarded experts in the field, a regular Resource Management Bulletin ensuring practitioners are informed of recent developments, and annotated commentary to the Local Government Act 2002 and Local Government (Rating) Act 2002.

LexisNexis offers essential commentary on ethics and professional responsibility for the New Zealand legal profession written by experts in the field, including judges, academics, and leading practitioners.

The LexisNexis family law portfolio provides extensive coverage of family law in New Zealand. Subscribers can access in-depth commentary, as well as practical how-to guidance, written by leading commentators and practitioners covering the spectrum of family law, including surrogacy, day-to-day care and contact, child support, care and protection of children, family violence, intellectual disability and more. Our dedicated publication on relationship property provides authoritative and extensive commentary and precedents essential for practice in this area.

LexisNexis provides a range of primary law and encyclopedic resources for general legal practice. The Laws of Zealand provides a comprehensive statement of the whole of New Zealand's legislative landscape, and New Zealand Forms and Precedents offers a modern precedents library designed to provide a precedent for every ordinary legal transaction. Primary law needs are fully covered with New Zealand Statues and Regulations, Unreported Judgments, LinxPlus, and the official reports series of New Zealand - the New Zealand Law Reports.

The LexisNexis intellectual property portfolio offers detailed commentary on copyright, designs, patents, and trademarks with relevant legislation, international conventions and supporting materials. It also contains a dedicated and quarterly IP journal that covers the latest cases, and trade mark and patent official action decisions of the IP Office of New Zealand.

The New Zealand Administrative Reports are published regularly to ensure subscribers stay current, covering significant issues in administrative and public law from a range of courts in Aotearoa New Zealand.

The LexisNexis procedure portfolio provides comprehensive annotated legislation covering all aspects of civil procedure in Aotearoa New Zealand. It includes extensive commentary on the District Court Rules 2014, High Court Rules 2016, judicial review procedure, administration, arbitration, habeas corpus, contempt of court, trans-Tasman proceedings and more.

LexisNexis’ property portfolio provides authoritative commentary on land law in New Zealand. The property practice area includes detailed section by section commentary to the Land Transfer Act 2017, commentary on the Te Ture Whenua Māori Act 1993 and the flagship Hinde, McMorland & McMorland covering the breadth of ownership rights, protection, security and registration of property. The Conveyancing Bulletin provides current awareness with analysis of the latest case law and significant developments impacting conveyancing and property transactions. For quick answers and practical tools, Practical Guidance Property provides expect know-how, checklists and precedents.

LexisNexis offers in-depth commentary on all aspects of wills, probate and administration of estates, including focussed Māori wills, intestacy, estates and succession commentary, as well as related legislation and essential wills and probate precedents. For how-to guidance Practical Guidance Succession provides step by step guidance notes, checklists and practical tools.

LexisNexis offers section by section commentary to the Trusts Act 2019 written and updated by experts in the field, as well as access to related legislation and essential precedents. Practical Guidance Trusts also offers topic-based easy to find how-to material, checklists and precedents for carrying out trusts matters.

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This authoritative work provides the practitioner with a practical and comprehensive guide to the workings of the District Court's civil jurisdiction. In addition to the annotated text of the District Court Act 2016 and District Court Rules 2014, the work contains appendices on appearing for the plaintiff and the defendant.

The Employment Law Bulletin keeps you up to date with the latest developments in employment law and is a must for any practitioner or professional dealing with employment law issues. The Bulletin is highly regarded among practitioners and stakeholders in the employment field, including the Courts. Each issue contains articles giving expert practical analysis on the most current and relevant issues in employment law, as well as case notes on key employment decisions.

Employment law is subject to rapid and constant change and remains a major tool for economic and political policy. Although the Employment Relations Act 2000 is the primary Act governing employment relations, employment law is impacted by diverse areas of law. Mazengarb's Employment Law provides detailed analysis that gives employment law practitioners quick and easy access to the latest and most relevant cases, legislation and practical guidelines.

Privacy law is an area of law that is of increasing importance and public awareness. It is a core area in practice with relevance in most settings: government, community groups, companies, etc. Privacy Law and Practice provides in-depth section by section commentary to the Privacy Act 2020, as well as specialist content for various sectors, including banking and finance, business and administration, education, employment, health and disability services, and law enforcement. The publication is an invaluable resource for any organisation that deals with personal information and any lawyer who advises such clients.

Fisher on Relationship Property is the most authoritative and extensive publication ever written in New Zealand on this subject. Regularly updated to incorporate all new developments in this field, product features include in-depth commentary, related legislation, relationship property precedents and relationship litigation precedents.

The District Court Reports provides a broad selection of important civil and criminal law cases from all District Court registries in New Zealand. It also includes selected High Court decisions that are not reported in the New Zealand Law Reports.

The New Zealand Family Law Journal brings together in one publication articles and items of interest on family law. Consulting editors are well-known experts and academics in the family law field. The New Zealand Family Law Journal acts as a supplement to the Family Law Service or stands by itself as an interesting and valuable publication.

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.

Local Government contains detailed annotated commentary under the sections of the Local Government Act 2002 and Local Government (Rating) Act 2002. Updated by local government specialists, Dean Knight and Chris Mitchell, LexisNexis Local Government has extensive history notes, cross-referencing and commentary ideal for keeping up-to-date in this area of practice.

Becroft and Hall’s Transport Law is the successor to Dixon’s Road Traffic Law and continues to be the leading work on road traffic law in New Zealand. Combining detailed commentary with all relevant legislation, this work includes in-depth coverage of the Land Transport Act 1998 and practical guides for the breath/blood alcohol and drug testing regime. Further, it considers the impact of the New Zealand Bill of Rights Act 1990 and Search and Surveillance Act 2012 in traffic cases and provides detailed coverage in relation to sentencing for traffic offences.

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