Law Internet Resources

New Zealand Law

• Legislation
• Court and Tribunal decisions, law reports etc
• Key National Bodies
• Key publications
• Links to Other New Zealand Sites

Legislation

• Bills
  • Parliament website
  • NZ Legislation website
• Knowledge Basket
  • Bills Digests (Parliamentary Library)
• Acts and Regulations
  • "Shattering Statutes" (annual volumes of New Zealand Acts for the years 1888 to 1894)

Court and Tribunal decisions, law reports etc

• Directory of Court Decisions
  Portal from the University of Waikato
• Ministry of Justice
  Recent higher court decisions from the Ministry of Justice website.
• Court of Appeal decisions 1999+

Key National Bodies

• Law Commission
  New Zealand's major law reform agency
• Knowledge Basket
  A fee paying service containing several law databases. Contents are usually free to browse and there is some access to full text items
• Ministry of Justice
• New Zealand Government Online
  Links to government web sites
• Parliament
  This site has few legislative publications.
  • Hansard Available from 2002/03 session +
• Parliamentary Counsel Office
  Information about drafting of and access to legislation in both printed and electronic forms

Key Publications

• The Laws of New Zealand (Lexis Nexis)
  Encyclopedia of New Zealand law - available only to Parliament House computer network

Links to Other New Zealand Sites (Pathfinders, Directories etc)

• via AUSTLII
• via University of Waikato
• An Introduction to New Zealand law and legal information [on the Internet] (M. Greville)
• The New Zealand legal system (F. Crichton)
  A detailed essay on various aspects of the NZ legal system
• Law and justice
  Portal to government law sites
• LawAccess
  Factsheets and websites arranged by subject categories, containing brief overviews of legal topics
  

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