Legal Research & AI Solutions for Barristers in New Zealand

LexisNexis® Barrister Solutions delivers fast, accurate NZ legal research and AI tools to help barristers find key authorities and prepare strong submissions.
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Core Solutions for NZ Barristers – NZBA e-Library

Our suite of solutions is purpose-built to enhance the accuracy, speed, and comprehensiveness of your legal research. Each tool is created with the realities of barristers’ workflows in mind - whether you are preparing for a hearing, advising on legal risks, or conducting early case evaluation.

Stay up-to date with the Pacific’s largest case citatory, CaseBase® Case Citator and LINXPlus, with over 140,000 case summaries of judgments and 120,000 indexed journal articles, forms and precedents and more.

Practice Area Collections

Primary Materials Collection

  • CaseBase Case Citator Pacific
  • Dictionary of New Zealand Law (including Spillers 8th)
  • LexCite | Statutes, Regulations & Compendium
  • NZ Law Reports
  • NZ Unreported Judgments

General Practitioners Collection (<10 FE's)

  • CaseBase™ Case Citator Pacific
  • Dictionary of New Zealand Law (including Spillers 8th)
  • Index to New Zealand Statutes
  • Laws of New Zealand
  • LexCite | Statutes, Regulations & Compendium
  • NZ Forms & Precedents
  • NZ Unreported Judgments

Family Law Collection

  • Family Law Journal
  • Family Law Reports
  • Family Law Service
  • Fisher on Matrimonial & Relationship Property
  • Practical Guidance - Family
  • Practical Guidance - Family Dispute Resolution

Employment Law Collection

  • Employment Law Bulletin
  • Employment Law Reports
  • Immigration Practitioners Bulletin
  • Mazengarb’s Employment Law
  • Personal Grievances
  • Privacy Law & Practice
  • Practical Guidance - Employment

Encyclopaedic Reference Collection

  • Laws of New Zealand
  • NZ Forms & Precedents
  • NZ Law Journal
  • NZ Legal Words & Phrases
  • Butterworths Current Law Archive

Individual Commentary Titles

  • Kennedy-Grant & Weatherall on Construction Law
  • Professional Responsibility

Trusts & Succession Law Collection

  • Law of Trusts
  • Wills & Succession
  • Practical Guidance - Trusts
  • Practical Guidance - Succession

Intellectual Property Collection

  • Intellectual Property Law
  • Intellectual Property Journal
  • Privacy Law & Practice
  • Practical Guidance - Intellectual Property

Criminal & Transport Law Collection

  • Becroft & Hall’s Transport Law
  • Cross on Evidence
  • District Court Practice - Criminal (Abbott & Thompson)
  • District Court Reports
  • Garrow & Turkington’s Criminal Law
  • Hall’s Sentencing
  • NZ Criminal Cases - Archive
  • Offences & Penalties (Statutes, Regulations & Compendium)
  • Privy Council Judgments - Archive
  • Status Court of Appeal - Archive
  • Practical Guidance - Criminal

Commercial & Company Collection

  • Commercial Law in New Zealand
  • Company & Securities Bulletin
  • Electronic Business & Tech Law
  • Heath & Whale on Insolvency
  • Morison’s Company & Securities Law
  • NZ Company & Commercial Law Reports
  • Privacy Law & Practice
  • Tax Reports of New Zealand - Archive
  • Practical Guidance - Business

Resource Management Law Collection

  • Environmental & Resource Management Law
  • Local Government
  • Resource Management - Appeals
  • Resource Management Bulletin
  • Practical Guidance - Resource Management

Property Law Collection

  • Adams Land Transfer
  • Conveyancing & Property Reports
  • Conveyancing Bulletin
  • Fisher on Matrimonial & Relationship Property
  • Hinde McMorland Sim Land Law
  • Practical Guidance - Property

Litigation, Evidence & Procedure Collection

  • Administrative Reports
  • CaseBase Case Citator Pacific
  • Cross on Evidence
  • District Court Practice - Civil
  • District Court Reports
  • LINXPlus
  • NZ Procedural Cases - Archive
  • NZ Unreported Judgments
  • Privy Council Judgments - Archive
  • Sim’s Court Practice
  • Status Court of Appeal - Archive
  • Practical Guidance - District Court Litigation

Practitioner Books Online

Searchable digital titles sitting within your Online Collection
*All Online subscribers can access the text simultaneously—no need to find who has the copy of the textbook!

  • Burrows and Carter Statute Law in New Zealand 6ed 2021
  • Burrows, Finn and Todd on the Law of Contract in New Zealand 7ed 2022
  • Company Law in New Zealand 2ed 2016
  • Directors’ Powers & Duties 3ed 2022
  • Intellectual Property in New Zealand 2ed 2011
  • Judicial Review A New Zealand Perspective 4ed 2018
  • Law of Societies in NZ 3ed 2013
  • Nevill’s Will Drafting Handbook 8ed 2021
  • Nevill’s Law of Trusts, Wills and Administration 14ed 2023
  • Nevill’s Trusts Drafting Handbook 3ed 2021
  • Personal Property Securities Act: Concepts in Practice 4ed 2016
  • Private Receivers of Companies in New Zealand 23ed 2008
  • Public Law Toolbox 2ed 2014
  • Residential Tenancies: The Law and Practice 4ed 2012
  • The Fair Trading Act Handbook 2018
  • Wells’ Limited Partnerships Handbook 2008
  • Williams and Kawharu on Arbitration 2ed 2017
  • Burrows and Carter Statute Law in New Zealand 6ed 2021
  • Burrows, Finn and Todd on the Law of Contract in New Zealand 7ed 2022
  • Company Law in New Zealand 2ed 2016
  • Directors’ Powers & Duties 3ed 2022
  • Intellectual Property in New Zealand 2ed 2011
  • Judicial Review A New Zealand Perspective 4ed 2018
  • Law of Societies in NZ 3ed 2013
  • Nevill’s Will Drafting Handbook 8ed 2021
  • Nevill’s Law of Trusts, Wills and Administration 14ed 2023
  • Nevill’s Trusts Drafting Handbook 3ed 2021
  • Personal Property Securities Act: Concepts in Practice 4ed 2016
  • Private Receivers of Companies in New Zealand 23ed 2008
  • Public Law Toolbox 2ed 2014
  • Residential Tenancies: The Law and Practice 4ed 2012
  • The Fair Trading Act Handbook 2018
  • Wells’ Limited Partnerships Handbook 2008
  • Williams and Kawharu on Arbitration 2ed 2017

International Content

AustraliaMajor Reference Works

  • AU-Australian Encyclopaedia of Forms & Precedents
  • AU-Halsbury's Laws of Australia
  • AU-Unreported Judgments - Australia

AustraliaAnalytical WorksAdministrative Law

AU-Australian Administrative Law

AustraliaAnalytical WorksBanking & Finance

  • AU-Anti-Money Laundering & Financial Crime
  • AU-Financial Services
  • AU-Law of Superannuation in Australia

AustraliaAnalytical WorksBuilding & Construction Law

AU-Building Contracts Australia

AustraliaAnalytical WorksCommunications Law

AU-Australian Defamation Law & Practice

AustraliaAnalytical WorksCompetition & Consumer Law

AU-Franchising Law & Practice

AustraliaAnalytical WorksCorporate & Commercial Law

  • AU-Bankruptcy Law & Practice
  • AU-Ford, Austin & Ramsay’s Principles of Corporations Law

AustraliaAnalytical WorksCriminal Law

AU-Sentencing Law NSW

AustraliaAnalytical WorksDictionaries

AU-Australian Legal Words & Phrases

AustraliaAnalytical WorksFamily Law

AU-Australian Family Law

AustraliaAnalytical WorksImmigration Law

AU-Australian Immigration Law

AustraliaAnalytical WorksInsurance Law

  • AU-Australian Insurance Law (Annotated)
  • AU-Kelly & Ball Principles of Insurance Law

AustraliaAnalytical WorksIntellectual Property

  • AU-Copyright & Designs
  • AU-Patents, Trade Marks & Related Rights

AustraliaAnalytical WorksJournals

  • AU-Australian Bar Review
  • AU-Insurance Law Journal

AustraliaAnalytical WorksLitigation, Evidence & Procedure

  • AU-Cross on Evidence
  • AU-Discovery & Interrogatories Australia
  • AU-Practice & Procedure High Court & Federal Court of Australia
  • AU-Ritchie’s Uniform Civil Procedure NSW
  • AU-Civil Procedure Vic

AustraliaAnalytical WorksLaw Reports

  • AU-Administrative Law Decisions
  • AU-Butterworths Property Reports
  • AU-Australian Law Reports
  • AU-Family Law Reports
  • AU-Intellectual Property Reports
  • AU-Queensland Reports
  • New Zealand Law Reports

United Kingdom

  • UK-All England Collection
  • All England Commercial Cases
  • All England Law Reports (european Cases) (Archive)
  • All England Law Reports
  • All England Official Transcripts (1997 - 2008)
  • All England Reporter
  • All ER Reprints
  • All ER Reprints - Extension
  • All England Annual Review
  • UK-Butterworths Company Law Cases
  • UK-Butterworths Human Rights Cases
  • UK-Emden’s Construction Law Superseded Contracts Set
  • UK-Encyclopaedia of Forms and Precedents
  • UK-Estates Gazette Planning Law Reports
  • UK-Halsbury’s Laws of England
  • UK-Journal of International Banking & Financial Law
  • UK-Justice of the Peace Reports
  • UK-Law Reports of the Commonwealth
  • UK-All England Collection
  • All England Commercial Cases
  • All England Law Reports (european Cases) (Archive)
  • All England Law Reports
  • All England Official Transcripts (1997 - 2008)
  • All England Reporter
  • All ER Reprints
  • All ER Reprints - Extension
  • All England Annual Review
  • UK-Butterworths Company Law Cases
  • UK-Butterworths Human Rights Cases
  • UK-Emden’s Construction Law Superseded Contracts Set
  • UK-Encyclopaedia of Forms and Precedents
  • UK-Estates Gazette Planning Law Reports
  • UK-Halsbury’s Laws of England
  • UK-Journal of International Banking & Financial Law
  • UK-Justice of the Peace Reports
  • UK-Law Reports of the Commonwealth

Other Jurisdictions

CA-Halsbury’s Laws of Canada

Red Titles

Portable offline on the Lexis Red® platform.

  • Abbott and Thompson District Courts Practice (Criminal) (NZ)
  • Adams' Land Transfer (NZ)
  • Becroft and Hall's Transport Law (NZ)
  • Commercial Law in New Zealand
  • Cross on Evidence (NZ)
  • District Courts Practice (Civil) (NZ)
  • Electronic Business and Technology Law (NZ)
  • Environmental and Resource Management Law Online
  • Family Law Service (NZ)
  • Fisher on Matrimonial and Relationship Property (NZ)
  • Garrow and Turkington's Criminal Law in New Zealand
  • Hall's Sentencing (NZ)
  • Heath and Whale on Insolvency
  • Hinde McMorland & Sim Land Law in New Zealand
  • Intellectual Property Law
  • Kennedy-Grant and Weatherall on Construction Law
  • Law of Trusts (NZ)
  • Local Government (NZ)
  • Mazengarb's Employment Law (NZ)
  • Morison's Company Law
  • Morison's Securities Law
  • New Zealand Forms and Precedents
  • Personal Grievances (NZ)
  • Privacy Law and Practice
  • Professional Responsibility in New Zealand
  • Sim's Court Practice (NZ)
  • Wills and Succession (NZ)
  • Anti-Money Laundering and Financial Crime Service
  • Australian Corporation Law - Principles and Practice
  • Australian Administrative Law
  • Australian Defamation Law and Practice
  • Australian Consumer Credit Law
  • Civil Liability in Australia
  • Competition and Consumer Act Annotated
  • Copyright and Designs
  • Energy and Resources Law in Australia
  • Federal Criminal Law Australia
  • Franchising Law & Practice
  • Kelly and Ball Principles of Insurance Law
  • Native Title
  • Patents Trade Marks And Related Rights
  • Practice and Procedure High Court And Federal Court of Australia
  • Takeovers & Reconstructions in Australia
  • Workplace Relations Legislation

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Barristers across New Zealand choose LexisNexis because it delivers the research precision, drafting efficiency, and trusted legal insight required for high-stakes litigation. Our solutions help you work faster, reduce risk, and prepare stronger written and oral submissions - all with the confidence of authoritative New Zealand content.

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Strengthening Advocacy at Every Stage of Litigation

LexisNexis Solutions for Barristers supports more than just research; it enhances the entire litigation workflow.

Research & Strategy Development

Identify the legal issues that matter most, assess the strength of your client’s position, and outline a strategy supported by comprehensive analysis.

Preparation of Written Submissions

Draft with confidence using tools that support citation integrity, reduce formatting errors, and maintain stylistic consistency.

Oral Advocacy Preparation

Surface key authorities and anticipate counterarguments through deeper analysis of judicial reasoning and precedent.

Legal Updates

Stay informed with timely updates on case law and legislative changes affecting your area of practice. These tools ensure barristers remain up to date with developments that may influence current or upcoming matters.

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Frequently Asked Questions

AI streamlines the research process by analysing your query, interpreting the legal concepts involved, and surfacing the most relevant authorities from across New Zealand’s case law and legislation. It reduces the risk of overlooking key cases and accelerates the process of building strong legal arguments.

Barrister Solutions provides access to authoritative content, including case law from all major New Zealand courts, legislation, regulatory materials, secondary sources, and expert commentary. This ensures your submissions are grounded in the most accurate and current legal information.

Drafting tools help you produce polished, consistent, and error-free documents. Accurate and up to date citations, cross-referencing, and style guidance reduce time spent on administrative tasks, allowing you to focus on argument quality.

Both. The tools are flexible and scalable, supporting barristers in both sole practice and large chambers environments. Whether you conduct your own research or delegate tasks, the solutions streamline the entire process.

Yes. All active customers receive complimentary onboarding, personalised training and ongoing support to ensure you get the maximum value from your LexisNexis tools. You can also attend our public webinars.

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