Legal Content Library - Practice Areas

Building and Construction

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.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.

Commercial

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.

Criminal

LexisNexis offers an extensive range of Criminal law publications covering criminal sentencing, transport and traffic law, criminal procedure, and evidence.

Employment

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.

Environment and Resources

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.

Ethics

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.

Family

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.

General Practice

LexisNexis provides a range of primary law and encyclopedic resources for general legal practice. The Laws of New 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.

Intellectual Property

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.

Public and Administrative

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.

Procedure

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.

Property

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.

Succession

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.

Trusts

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.