Issue 485 | 07 September 2020
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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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To find out more about the content webinars, click via the eStore here.
Did you know that our LexisNexis training webinars are complementary and most are 
CPD compliant? 
Tuesday, 8th of September at 3pm

This session will provide knowledge on the basic features and functionalities of Lexis Advance. Make use of the red search box for general searches and be able to filter and narrow your results. Get familiar in using the alerts and favourites. Utilise the different pods such as your history and publications and the availability of creating your own work folders to organise your research, documents and matter you are working on.
Duration: 45 min

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Wednesday, 9th of September at 10am

This session will look at how Practical Guidance operates as a standalone module and as a partner to the research you may run on Lexis Advance. In Practical Guidance, you can find guidance written by experts in different areas of law that lead you to the relevant cases and legislation, forms, checklists and precedents as well as extracts from the key text Lexis publishes in that area. Focus on understanding the use and benefits of Practical Guidance modules for your everyday research.
Duration: 60 min

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Wednesday, 9th of September at 4pm

NZBA members—improve your skills and save time researching with Lexis Advance. In our Bar-focused training session, discover how to make the most of the big red search box, filter your search results, create links to your favourite publications, highlight and annotate content, create your own work folders to organise your research. Makes researching easy for you.
Duration: 60 min

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Thursday, 10th of September at 4pm

Our Environmental and Resource Management Law publications will deliver answers on this topic of environment law, including Practical Guidance modules compiled by expert practitioners in their field. Learn how to work with content in Chapter 5 of our encyclopedic Environmental Resource Management Law comprehensively reviewed by Derek Nolan QC. Look at The Laws of New Zealand encylopedic book and the chapters on Resource Management and Climate Change including leading cases on the subject. Become familiar with constructing search terms and setting up alerts, folders and saved annotations.
Duration: 60 min

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Tuesday, 15th of September at 4pm

This session shows you how to browse and search your digital versions of key LexisNexis publications. We show you how to quickly find, highlight and annotate content for effective offline use of publications when you are out of the office.
Duration: 45 min

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Monday, 22nd of September at 3pm

Lexis Draft is a legal drafting solution. It is a Microsoft Word and Microsoft Outlook add-in ribbon that helps you draft faster and more efficiently. Lexis Draft contains legal proofreading, editorial review, research and analytical tools for accurate, consistent and efficient drafting. It checks for inconsistencies in documents, flags areas that need your attention and links directly to your LexisNexis services without leaving Word – saving you time.
Duration: 45 min

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Wednesday, 23rd of September at 12pm

NZBA members—improve your skills and save time researching with Lexis Advance. In our Bar-focused training session, discover how to make the most of the big red search box, filter your search results, create links to your favourite publications, highlight and annotate content, create your own work folders to organise your research. Makes researching easy for you.
Duration: 60 min

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Thursday, 24th of September at 12pm

Have a look under the hood to get more understanding of how CaseBase and LexCite work on Lexis Advance. Understand the sources they draw their information from and how they can aid your legal research and save you time.
Duration: 60 min

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Thursday, 24th of September at 4pm

This webinar covers various research topics using LexisNexis criminal publications, including textbooks online and Practical Guidance. Join us for an overview of our criminal materials in Garrow and Turkington, Halls sentencing, Abbot & Thompson – District Courts Practice Criminal, Sim's court practice and Cross on Evidence.
Duration: 60 min

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Wednesday, 30th of September at 12pm

NZBA members—improve your skills and save time researching with Lexis Advance. In our Bar-focused training session, discover how to make the most of the big red search box, filter your search results, create links to your favourite publications, highlight and annotate content, create your own work folders to organise your research. Makes researching easy for you.
Duration: 60 min

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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.
 
Heath and Whale on Insolvency

Service 48 – August 2020 is now available online.

Service 48 features updated commentary on: Personal insolvency; Secured debt; Preferential debt and set-off; and Court procedure.

Company and Securities Law Bulletin

Issue 8 is now available online.

This issue features an article on statutory demands and agreements to arbitrate by Suzanne Robertson QC. The issue also includes headnotes on ANZ Bank New Zealand Ltd v Bushline Trustees Ltd [2020] NZSC 71 and Harmoney Ltd v Commerce Commission [2020] NZCA 275.
 
Personal Grievances

Service 82 is now available online.

This service includes updates to chapters on Unjustifiable dismissal, Procedural fairness, Grounds for dismissal, and Remedies.

Practical Guidance: Employment

Latest legal updates
New wage subsidy open to eligible businesses

Regional jobs for nature investments
 
Practical Guidance: Family

Toolkit
Family Court COVID-19 Protocol for the Adoption of New Zealand Surrogate Babies born overseas

Latest legal updates
Family Court considered spousal maintenance after death of partner

Ministry of Justice updates guidance for shared parenting during different COVID-19 alert level areas

High demand for family lawyers nationwide due to lockdown
 
Textbook
 
Maria Hook & Jack Wass

RRP*incl GST: $200.00
ISBN: 9780947514112 (book)
Publication date: July 2020
 
Editor’s Notes Blog

New Zealand Law Reports Editor Geoff McLay’s Editor’s Notes is a blog that provides readers with regular commentary on the cases we publish in the Reports. It is designed to not only let you know what is significant in terms of the doctrine in cases reported, but to also provide a flavour of how New Zealand judges are deciding important cases and reveal possible links between what seem like disparate decisions. Cases mentioned therein are linked to the reports on Lexis Advance.
LEX & LORE Podcast

Join host, Geoff McLay, along with a who’s who of academic and legal experts, as they dissect cases, judgements and developments affecting the courts today.
 
Adam’s Land Transfer

Service 98 is now available online.

This service provides legislative updates to the Property Law Act 2007 and Unit Titles Act 2010. Commentary has been updated on the Land Transfer Act 2017.

Practical Guidance: Property

Latest legal updates
NZLS submission on the Overseas Investment Amendment Bill (No 3)

Urban Development Act 2020 passed
Textbook
 
Don McMorland

RRP*incl GST: $220.00
ISBN: 9781988546230
Publication date: June 2020
 
Textbook
 
Derek Nolan (editor)

RRP*incl GST: $220.00
ISBN: 9781988546247
Publication date: July 2020
 
Practical Guidance: Succession

Latest legal update
Advisable to sign wills and enduring powers of attorney in person after COVID-19 lockdown
Textbook
 
Sarah Parsons                                                 

RRP*incl GST: $160.00 $144.00 (pre-order price)
ISBN: 9781988546254
Publication date: October 2020
 
Textbook
 
Sarah Parsons                                                 

RRP*incl GST: $160.00 $144.00 (pre-order price)
ISBN: 9781988546278
Publication date: October 2020
 
Textbook
 
Ursula Cheer                                          

RRP*incl GST: $185.00 $166.50 (pre-order price)
ISBN: 9781988546117 (book)                            
ISBN: 9781988546124 (ebook)
Publication date: October 2020
 
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.

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