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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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Sim's Court Practice is a long-established text; it is over one hundred years since the first edition of Stout and Sim was published. Sim's Court Practice is a comprehensive statement of the law relating to the practice of the High Court, Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court.

Hall's Sentencing provides an in-depth examination of the principles and practice of criminal sentencing in New Zealand. Written by one of New Zealand’s leading authorities on sentencing, Emeritus Professor Geoffrey G Hall, this publication contains comprehensive and up-to-date information on the principles of sentencing, the Sentencing Act 2002, the Sentencing Regulations 2002, and sentencing levels.

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.

A highly regarded service, Morison's Company and Securities Law is one of the most comprehensive narrative-style authorities available on company and securities law. Written by a team of leading practitioners and academics in the field, Morison's covers all facets of company and securities law.

Abbott and Thompson District Courts Practice (Criminal) contains commentary on the Criminal Procedure Act 2011 and the Criminal Procedure Rules 2014, along with the Bail Act 2000, the Oranga Tamariki Act 1989 (Children’s and Young People’s Well-being Act 1989) and other related legislation and regulations.

Heath and Whale on Insolvency provides commentary to all relevant law affecting corporate and personal insolvency in New Zealand. This publication has been written for the busy legal practitioner, with clear, concise commentary on a range of insolvency regimes and adjacent relevant areas. Topics covered in Heath and Whale include: receivership, liquidation, antecedent transactions, secured debt, statutory management, regulation of insolvency practitioners, special entities, cross-border insolvency and court procedure.

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.

Professional Responsibility in New Zealand provides expert commentary on the professional obligations of lawyers, mediators and non-lawyer advocates; including annotated legislation, topic-based commentary on issues outside of the relevant legislation, and updates on important case law to help practitioners stay across changes in the law.

Kennedy-Grant and Weatherall on Construction Law is a practical commentary on construction law designed for lawyers, contractors and construction professionals. The publication covers statutory controls, the impacts of the tort of negligence, construction contracts, subcontracts, supply contracts and dispute resolution. The commentary is written by leaders in the construction law field and regularly updated to reflect the latest legislative developments and case law.

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