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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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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.

The New Zealand Law Reports is a generalist law report series that covers all major developments in New Zealand case law. It is the only authorised law report series in New Zealand.

Commercial Law in New Zealand is an authoritative legal work that covers all major areas of practice in the commercial setting. It presents the complex statutory provisions that regulate commercial law in a practical, accessible and easy to use fashion. Rather than simply annotating statute, Commercial Law in New Zealand adopts a narrative approach to commercial law practice, which assists the busy legal practitioner to understand the content. This approach makes Commercial Law in New Zealand a valuable reference product. Written by a team of leading academics and practitioners, Commercial Law in New Zealand is presented in eight parts and covers over 50 separate practice focus points – ranging from contract law to the Personal Property Securities Act 1999.

The New Zealand Law Journal (NZLJ) is the only journal in New Zealand that carries in-depth articles on the whole range of legal issues published in a timely and up-to-date manner. NZLJ reports developments in the law and law-related affairs quickly, accurately and in depth. Regular sections by expert editors provide short commentary on the most recent developments in litigation, criminal practice and in transactional matters.

This is an encyclopaedic work that has addressed the need to have a New Zealand equivalent to Halsbury's Laws of England as the New Zealand legal system gradually moved away from its traditional British model. It provides a reliable statement of the whole of the law of New Zealand - statutory, regulatory, and judicial. It is a comprehensive source of primary comment required by practitioners and academics alike.

Intellectual Property Law provides leading commentary on intellectual property developments in New Zealand, as well as expert analyses on areas that overlap with commercial law such as unfair trading and passing off.

The New Zealand Employment Law Reports is a specialist law report series that focuses on employment law. It includes cases that relate to the common law rights and obligations of employees and employers; classification of employment relationships; freedom of association, the negotiation and operation of individual employment agreements and collective agreements, industrial action, personal grievances, and wages; the role of the employment institutions; human rights law covering discrimination and harassment in the workplace; health and safety law; and work-related accident compensation issues.

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.

The Company and Securities Law Bulletin (CSLB) provides up-to-date commentary on significant developments in all facets of company and securities law. The Bulletin includes editorials on topical issues, articles on recent developments and current issues, and structured headnotes for important cases. The Bulletin is written by experts in the field; contributions are received from academics and practitioners, both in New Zealand and overseas. Over the years, the Bulletin has become an essential aid and reference, and is the regular bulletin for debate and discussion of company and securities law.

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.

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