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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.

New Zealand Unreported Judgments (NZURJ) is New Zealand’s first database of searchable full-text judgments. Practical and easy to use, NZURJ contains over 90,000 judgments.

The core of Adams' Land Transfer contains section-by-section analysis of the Land Transfer Act 2017 (the Act central to conveyancing practice), updated to reflect the latest legislative amendments and case law. Other legislation covered includes the Te Ture Whenua Māori Act 1993 – with commentary, Property Law Act 2007, Overseas Investment Act 2005, Residential Tenancies Act 1986 and the Unit Titles Act 2010. Adams’ is an essential resource for anyone practising in the conveyancing or property fields.

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.

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 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.

The Conveyancing Bulletin provides up-to-date commentary on significant developments in conveyancing and property transactions, including mortgages and landlord and tenant. The Bulletin is published eight times a year, with each issue containing in-depth case notes on recent relevant judgments, and may also feature articles on important issues, updates on legislative reviews and information on other changes affecting this area of law and practice.

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.

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.

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