By Don McMorland Reviewed by Linda Fox* Don McMorland’s 660-page Sale of Land was described to me as the new “Friday afternoon bible”, but would it hold the answers to those curly problems we property lawyers encounter on Friday afternoons, when the moving truck is revving to depart but ... More about Book Review: Sale of Land, 3RD Edition.
By Frank Chan Reviewed by John Buick-Constable and Natan Karon* Financial advisers have been in the gun (and in the courts) in recent years, following the collapse of finance companies and other investments before and during the global financial crisis. As a result, the law relating to financial advice has ... More about Book Review: Financial Advisers’ Handbook.
By Kenneth Palmer Reviewed by Sharron Wooler* Weighing in at 1236 pages, this is a worthy successor to Palmer’s seminal 1993 text Local Government Law in New Zealand and ably meets its purpose of recognising the growth in local government legislation and case law in the intervening 18 years. Few, if any, ... More about Book Review: Local Authorities Law in New Zealand.
Author: Tómas Kennedy-Grant QC Publisher: LexisNexis ISBN: 978-0-408717-86-1 Publication: April 2012 Price: $184.00 (includes GST, excludes postage and handling) Pages: 958 Format: Paperback, e-book. The Author: Tómas Kennedy-Grant QC practises as a mediator, arbitrator, adjudicator and legal adviser. He has 47 years’ experience in the law and was a ... More about Book Published: Kennedy-Grant on Construction Law, 2nd edition.
Any American law student or lawyer grows up in a world where one of life’s choices is LexisNexis or Westlaw – a bit like Coke or Pepsi. Both are huge databases of legal information which have been established since the 1970s. LexisNexis’s New Zealand arm has offered access to ... More about Westlaw NZ to be launched.
By David Harvey Reviewed by John Edwards* Imagine you were a scholar in the early 19th century and you were asked to prepare a definitive text on the legal issues associated with paper, and printing. Where would you start, and what would you cover? You might discuss the importance of ... More about internet.law.nz, 3rd edition.
By Claudia Geiringer, Polly Higbee and Elizabeth McLeay Reviewed by Margaret Wilson* This excellent book is a must read for anyone interested in New Zealand’s constitutional arrangements and how laws are made in Parliament. The book resulted from research funded by the Law Foundation and conducted under oversight of ... More about Book Review: What’s the Hurry? Urgency in the New Zealand Legislative Process 1987-2010.
Hinde on Commercial Leases by GW Hinde Reviewed by Leo Z Liao* This is a hard copy version of Chapter 11 of the Hinde McMorland and Sim Land Law in New Zealand looseleaf service. The purpose of the book is to provide legal practitioners with materials from that chapter in one ... More about Book Review: Hinde on Commercial Leases.
Company Law in New Zealand by Peter Watts, Neil Campbell, Christopher Hare Reviewed by Andrew Beck* For many years there was a dearth of treatises on New Zealand company law. Farrar and Russell’s Company Law in New Zealand was published in 1985 and related to the Companies Act 1955. The major ... More about Book Review: Company Law in New Zealand.
Author: Mark von Dadelszen Publisher: LexisNexis ISBN: 978-1-927149-46-1 Publication: March 2012 Price: $49.45 (GST incl, p&h excl) Pages: 184 plus fold-out meeting procedure flowchart Content The author describes this as being written for “ordinary” people who have to attend meetings as “members” who are allowed to speak and ... More about Book Published: Members’ Meetings, 3rd Edition.
Author: Andrew Beck Publisher: Thomson Reuters ISBN: 978-0-864727-34-3 Publication: March 2012 Price: $88.00 (GST and p&h excl) Pages: 352 Content This is the third edition of an introductory text on civil procedure in New Zealand. The earlier editions were published in 1992 and 2001. It takes a principle-based approach to ... More about Book Published: Principles of Civil Procedure, 3rd Edition.
Author: Kenneth Palmer Publisher: Thomson Reuters ISBN: 978-0-864727-33-6 Publication: March 2012 Price: $236.00 (GST and p&h excl) Pages: 1236 Content This is Dr Palmer’s third treatise on New Zealand local government law, with previous works published in 1978 and 1993. In his preface, Dr Palmer says the text derives ... More about Book Published: Local Authorities Law in New Zealand.
Book Review: The Rule of Law by Tom Bingham Reviewed by Warren Pyke* The late Lord Bingham chose as his subject for the Sir David Williams Lecture at the University of Cambridge in 2006 “The Rule of Law”, because while “the expression was constantly on people’s lips, I was not ... More about Book Review: The Rule of Law.
Book Review: Intellectual Property in New Zealand, 2nd edition by Susy Frankel Reviewed by Justin Graham* Published nine years after its 2002 predecessor, the second edition of Susy Frankel’s Intellectual Property in New Zealand undertakes to update and survey the legal protections and material issues concerning intellectual property today. Broadly ... More about Book Review: Intellectual Property in New Zealand, 2nd edition.
Butterworths New Zealand Law Dictionary, 7th Edition by Peter Spiller Reviewed by Mary-Rose Russell* Within any legal system arguably one of the most important reference works is its own law dictionary. Butterworths New Zealand Law Dictionary is our jurisdiction’s only legal dictionary and now in its seventh edition, it ... More about Book Review: Butterworths New Zealand Law Dictionary, 7th Edition.
Modern Challenges to the Rule of Law, edited by Richard Ekins Reviewed by Austin Forbes QC* The blurb on the back cover of another recently published collection of lectures and papers on the rule of law goes so far as to say that “The rule of law is one of ... More about Book Review: Modern Challenges to the Rule of Law.
Competencies of Trial: Fitness to Plead in New Zealand by Warren Brookbanks Reviewed by John Dawson* The law of competence (or fitness) to stand trial operates at the intersection of psychological assessment, human rights law and rules of criminal procedure. Its development has challenged the New Zealand legal system in ... More about Book Review: Competencies of Trial: Fitness to Plead in New Zealand.
Author: Mai Chen Publisher: LexisNexis ISBN: 978-1-877511-88-2 Publication: March 2012 Price: $184.00 (GST incl, p&h excl) Pages: 1050 Content Mai Chen was a founding partner of Chen Palmer, New Zealand’s first law firm specialising in public law. Her book is aimed at anyone who wants to interact ... More about Book Published: Public Law Toolbox: Solving Problems with Government.
Author: Richard Rudman Publisher: CCH New Zealand Ltd ISBN: 978-0-864759-55-9 Publication: January 2012 Price: $78 (excludes GST and postage and handling) Pages: 462 The Author: Richard Rudman is a graduate of Auckland University and Victoria University of Wellington. He has over 30 years’ experience as a consultant, research and writer specialising ... More about Book Published: New Zealand Employment Law Guide, 2012 edition.
General Editor: John Brown Authors: Henry Brandts-Giesen, Joanna Caen, Ivy Chen, Helen Cull QC, Lewis Grant, Susan Hall, Pieter Holl, Deborah Hollings QC, Peter McKenzie QC, Tammy McLeod, Ian Millard QC, Juliet Moses, Judith Spells. Publisher: CCH New Zealand Ltd ISBN: 978-0-864759-15-3 Publication: December 2011 Price: $126.50 (includes GST, ... More about Book Published: New Zealand Master Trusts Guide, 3rd edition.
Authors: John Burrows, Jeremy Finn, Stephen Todd. Publisher: LexisNexis ISBN: 978-1-927149-54-6 Publication: February 2012 Price: $178.25 (includes GST, excludes postage and handling) Pages: 960 Format: Paperback, e-book. The Authors: Dr John Burrows QC is Emeritus Professor of Law at University of Canterbury and a Commissioner at New Zealand Law Commission. ... More about Book Published: Law of Contract in New Zealand, 4th edition.
Authors: Claudia Geiringer, Polly Higbee and Elizabeth McLeay Publisher: Victoria University Press ISBN: 978-0-864737-72-4 Publication: December 2011 Price: $56.00 (RRP) Pages: 177 Content The authors carried out a research project on the use of urgency in New Zealand under the auspices of the New Zealand Centre for Public Law and ... More about Book Published: What’s the Hurry? Urgency in the New Zealand Legislative Process 1987-2010.
LexisNexis has forged ahead in the relatively new New Zealand market for legal e-books, with 27 titles available at the last count. CCH has 2 New Zealand titles available in e-book format while Thomson Reuters is still gearing up for a 2012 launch. An e-book is a digital version of a book which ... More about Update on legal e-books in New Zealand.
Author: Don McMorland Publisher: Cathcart Trust ISBN: 978-0-473189-39-6 Publication: August 2011 Price: $185.00 (includes GST and postage and handling) Pages: 673 Content The first edition was published in 1994 and the second in 2000. Since its first appearance 18 years ago, Dr McMorland’s work has become known to some lawyers as the “ ... More about Sale of Land, 3rd edition.
Consulting Editor: Sir Peter Blanchard Authors: Andrew Barker, Andrew Beck, Maree Chetwin, Johanna Drayton, Stephen Kós, Andrew McIntyre, David McLay, Geoff McLay, Bevan Marten, Jessica Palmer, Charles Rickett, Rachael Schmidt-McCleave Publisher: Thomson Reuters ISBN: 978-0-864727-32-9 Publication: December 2011 Price: $236.00 (excludes GST and postage and handling) Pages: 889 Content ... More about Book Published: Civil Remedies in New Zealand, 2nd edition.
Authors: Steve Alexander and 18 others Publisher: Thomson Reuters ISBN: 978-0-864727-41-1 Publication: December 2011 Price: $40.00 (excludes GST and postage and handling) Pages: 348 Content This is a collection of essays which look at the leaky building problem in New Zealand from a range of different perspectives – in the areas of ... More about Book Published: The Leaky Buildings Crisis – Understanding the Issues.
Authors: David Williams QC and Amokura Kawharu and contributing authors Publisher: LexisNexis NZ Ltd ISBN: 978-1-927183-08-3 (paperback) Publication: December 2011 Price: $184.00 (paperback – GST included, postage and handling not included) Pages: 1246 Content The publisher says this is the first comprehensive, in-depth analysis of the law and practice of domestic ... More about Book Published: Williams & Kawharu on Arbitration.
Authors: Graham Taylor and Paul Roth Publisher: LexisNexis NZ Ltd ISBN: 978-1-877511-98-1 Publication: December 2011 Price: $92.00 (GST included, freight and handling not included) Pages: 454 Content This book is largely based on Chapter 9 of the second edition of Graham Taylor’s Judicial Review: A New Zealand Perspective. Additional material ... More about Book Published: Access to Information.
Authors: Mark Henaghan, Bill Atkin, Dale Clarkson, John Caldwell Publisher: LexisNexis ISBN: 978-1-927149-82-9 Publication: December 2011 Price: $149.50 Pages: 1,472 Content This is a consolidation of the commentary contained in the subscription Family Law Service, which is updated six times a year. The consolidation is printed as at 1 October 2011. The ... More about Book Published: Butterworths Family Law in New Zealand, 15th edition.
Editors: Elisabeth McDonald and Yvette Tinsley Publisher: Victoria University Press ISBN: 978-0-864736-96-3 Publication: December 2011 Price: $60.00 (RRP) Pages: 565 Content This is a collection of essays. The authors were funded by the New Zealand Law Foundation and worked in collaboration with the Law Commission to research possible reforms of ... More about Book Published: From “Real Rape” to Real Justice: Prosecuting Rape in New Zealand.
Author: Gordon Anderson Publisher: Victoria University Press ISBN: 978-0-864736-57-4 Publication: December 2011 Price: $50.00 (RRP) Pages: 286 Content Gordon Anderson is a Professor of Law at Victoria University of Wellington. This book looks at the development of the law of employment in New Zealand over the past four decades. A ... More about Book Published: Reconstructing New Zealand’s Labour Law. Consensus or Divergence?.
Unit Titles Manual: A practical guide to understanding and complying with the new unit titles regime Authors: John Ross, Vesna Wells Publisher: Thomson Reuters ISBN: 978-0-864727-43-5 Publication: November 2011 Price: $49 (GST and postage and handling not included) Pages: 172 Content Designed as an easy-to-read manual and targeted at unit ... More about Book Published: Unit Titles Manual.
Authors: John Rowan QC (Consulting Editor), David More, Margaret Sewell, Steven Zindel Publisher: Thomson Reuters ISBN: 978-0-864727-40-0 Publication: November 2011 Price: $90 (GST and postage and handling not included) Pages: 602 Content Thomson Reuters says the objective of this handbook is to provide current information on the new legal aid ... More about Book Published: Legal Aid Handbook.
Editor: Susy Frankel Publisher: LexisNexis NZ Ltd ISBN: 978-1-927149-29-4 Publication: December 2011 Price: $132.25 Pages: 560 Content This is a collection of essays commissioned by the New Zealand Law Foundation to look at issues around New Zealand’s regulatory framework. The essays were prepared following research, discussion and a series ... More about Book Published: Learning from the Past, Adapting for the Future: Regulatory Reform in New Zealand.
Author: Caroline E Foster Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 978-0-521513-26-5 Publication: 2011 Price: 70 English Pounds Pages: 375 Content University of Auckland senior law lecturer Caroline Foster looks at a range of international scientific disputes and considers how the precautionary principle can be accommodated within the rules about proof and ... More about Book Published: Science and the Precautionary Principle in International Courts and Tribunals.
Reviewed by Kate Feltham* Since its publication in late 2007, The Evidence Act 2006: Act and Analysis by Mahoney, McDonald, Optican & Tinsley has become an essential guide for litigators, particularly criminal practitioners, on the Evidence Act 2006. Like the first edition, this text sets out the Evidence Act 2006 and accompanying regulations in ... More about Book Review: The Evidence Act 2006, 2nd edition.
Author: David Harvey Publisher: LexisNexis NZ Ltd ISBN: 978-1-877511-97-4 Publication: November 2011 Price: $189.75 Pages: 1040 Content The last edition was published in 2005. Judge Harvey notes that six years in internet time is “lengthy indeed”, with a number of changes in the internet environment and the expectations of those who ... More about internet.law.nz selected issues, 3rd edition.
Author: Paul Sumpter Publisher: LexisNexis NZ Ltd ISBN: 978-1-877511-60-8 Publication: November 2011 Price: $159.85 Pages: 352 Content The first edition was published in 2004. The author notes that there has been a “swarm” of tribunal hearings of IPONZ and subsequent court decisions since the first edition which commented on new legislation. ... More about Trade Marks in Practice, 2nd edition.
Author: Peter Spiller Publisher: LexisNexis NZ Ltd ISBN: 978-1-927149-80-5 Publication: November 2011 Price: $99.50 Pages: 358 Content: The previous edition was published in December 2005. As stated in the author’s preface, the objective of this book is to provide “a basic understanding of the terms that are used in New ... More about Book Published: Butterworths New Zealand Law Dictionary, 7th edition.
Author: Stuart Webster Publisher: Sainsbury Logan & Williams Services Ltd ISBN: 978-0-473192-41-9 Publication: November 2011 Price: $150.00 (GST included) Pages: 416 Content: Napier law firm Sainsbury Logan & Williams began in 1875 when 26-year-old English immigrant George Sainsbury was admitted as a barrister and solicitor in the Supreme Court at Napier ... More about Sainsbury Logan & Williams: Lawyers since 1875.
Editor: Michael Woolf Publisher: The Production House Ltd ISSN: 1179-2930 Publication: October 2011 Price: Free to the legal profession Pages: 52 Contents: First published in 1975, the New Zealand Charity & Legal Gazette contains a listing of charitable bodies and organisations, compiled to aid donors and people making wills about the roles of ... More about Book Published: New Zealand Charity & Legal Gazette, 36th edition.
Sweet & Maxwell (founded in 1802), Butterworths (1818) and West Publishing (1872) all grew and prospered to become the foundation of the two large multinationals which earned US$6.3 billion in 2010 from their legal divisions. Worldwide, the sale of legal and professional information has been estimated to be worth as much as US$14.8 billion. ... More about The lucrative legal publishing business.
Legal texts will continue to exist until the day an electronic device has the battery life and ease of access of a looseleaf book, says Brookers Ltd New Zealand country manager Haydn Davies. Mr Davies uses the example of the court litigator to describe the present limitations of hefty legal ... More about Legal texts will continue to be available in hardcopy.
Editor-in-Chief: Derek Nolan Publisher: LexisNexis ISBN: 978-1-927149-20-1 Publication: October 2011 Price: $195.50 Pages: 1348 Content: This is the 4th edition of a work which was first published in 1980, written by David AR Williams. Further editions followed in 1997 and 2005. The book seeks to provide comprehensive coverage of New Zealand legislation and ... More about Book Published: Environmental & Resource Management Law, 4th edition.
Authors: Peter Watts, Neil Campbell, Christopher Hare Publisher: LexisNexis ISBN: 978-1-877511-58-5 Publication: October 2011 Price: $171.35 Pages: 1020 Content: The authors say their book seeks to provide a comprehensive account of New Zealand company law. The book is aimed at both students and practitioners, “although the former may find more ... More about Book Published: Company Law in New Zealand .
Author: JC Corry Publisher: LexisNexis ISBN: 978-1-877511-95-0 Publication: September 2011 Price: $138.00 Pages: 168 Content: This provides commentary on the new regime implemented by the Limitation Act 2010, which came into force on 1 January 2011. The book includes an introduction to limitation issues and principles, an overview of the Limitation Act 2010 and ... More about Book Published: Limitation Act Handbook.
LexisNexis, August 2011. ISBN 978-1-87751-173-8, 308 pages. Reviewed by John Greenwood Following on from the publication of Brookers Unit Titles Handbook 2011 by Rod Thomas, the Thomas Gibbons publication by LexisNexis provides a more comprehensive publication on the Unit Titles Act 2010 and the Unit Titles Regulations 2011 and Unit Titles (Unit ... More about Book Review: Unit Titles Law and Practice.
Author: Warren Brookbanks Publisher: LexisNexis ISBN: 978-1-877511-74-5 Publication: September 2011 Price: $138.00 Pages: 380 Content: In his preface, Professor Brookbanks says his principal aim is to provide an account of the development of the doctrine of unfitness to stand trial with particular reference to New Zealand law. He says his ... More about Book Published: Competencies of Trial: Fitness to Plead in New Zealand.
Hinde on Commercial Leases Authors: GW Hinde Publisher: LexisNexis ISBN: 978-1-877511-08-0 Publication: August 2011 Price: $189.75 Pages: 614 Content: The content is taken from chapter 11 of the looseleaf service Hinde McMorland and Sim, Land Law in New Zealand. The author says the law is stated “in accordance with the material ... More about Book Published: Hinde on Commercial Leases.
Unit Titles Law and Practice Author: Thomas Gibbons Publisher: LexisNexis ISBN: 978-1-87751-173-8 Publication: August 2011 Price: $130.00 (excludes GST and freight) Pages: 308 Content: The book is based on a series of articles which were originally published in the Butterworths Conveyancing Bulletin. The author says these have been extensively reviewed ... More about Book Published: Unit Titles Law and Practice.
Author: Nicky Richardson ISBN: 978-1-927149-24-9 Publication: July 2011 Publisher: LexisNexis Price: $49.45 Pages: 94 Content: In her preface, the author describes this as a “little book” written for people who have no legal knowledge but who are interested in, or contemplate, becoming a trustee. “It is also aimed at ... More about Book Published: Nevill’s Guide to being a Trustee.
General Editor: Alastair Cameron Contributors: Jonathan Boston, Carrie Lui, Martin Manning, Andy Reisinger, Vernon Rive, Sean Weaver, Teresa Weeks, Tony Wilkinson, Peter Wilson Publisher: LexisNexis ISBN: 978-1-877511-11-0 Publication: July 2011 Price: $172.50 Pages: 554 Content: While each chapter has different authors, this is designed to be a text rather than ... More about Book Published: Climate Change Law and Policy in New Zealand.
Author: Susy Frankel Publisher: LexisNexis ISBN: 978-0-408718-35-6 Publication: July 2011 Price: $150.00 Pages: 900 Content: The first edition of this work was published in 2002, jointly authored by Professor Frankel and fellow Victoria University academic Geoff McLay. The latest edition includes developments until the end of 2010. In the Introduction, the author ... More about Book Published: Intellectual Property in New Zealand, 2nd edition.
Authors: Kiely Thompson Caisley Publisher: CCH ISBN: 978-0-864757-04-3 Publication: June 2011 Price: $96.60 Content: This new edition includes commentary and information on the changes introduced by the Holidays Amendment Act 2010. The guide includes a consolidated version of the Holidays Act 2003 with section-by-section comentary and cross-referencing. The guide includes discussion ... More about Book Published: Guide to Holidays and Leave, 3rd edition.
Authors: Bruce Douglas, Nicky Richardson, Sarah Parsons Publisher: LexisNexis ISBN: 978-1-877511-99-8 Publication: June 2011 Price: $166.75 Pages: 160 plus CD Content: The 6th edition states the law as at 31 March 2011. The 5th edition was published in 2006 and the latest edition provides precedents and clauses for the Wills Act 2007. The book ... More about Book Published: Nevill's Will Drafting Handbook, 6th edition.
Author: David V Williams Publisher: Auckland University Press ISBN: 978-1-869404-84-0 Publication: 3June 2011 Price: $49.99 Pages: 287 Content: Auckland University Professor David Williams looks at the Wi Parata v the Bishop of Wellington (1877) 3 NZ Jur (NS) SC 7 case which gave rise to the well-known obiter dicta that so far as ... More about Book Published: A Simple Nullity? The Wi Parata case in New Zealand law and history.
Authors: Chris Mitchell and Dean Knight Publisher: LexisNexis ISBN: 978-1-877511-94-3 Publication: June 2011 Price: $161.00 Pages: 726 Content: The content is taken from the looseleaf service LexisNexis Local Government. The book contains consolidated legislation and section-by-section commentary to the Local Government Act 2002, Local Government Act 1974 provisions still in force, and ... More about Book Published: Local Government Law in Practice.
Editor: Richard Ekins Contributors: James Allan, Richard Ekins, Lewis Evans, John Finnis, Andrew Geddis, Justice Dyson Heydon, Philip Joseph, Michael Littlewood, Neil Quigley, Justice Philip Sales, Grégoire Webber, Paul Yowell. Publisher: LexisNexis ISBN: 978-1-877511-75-2 Publication: April 2011 Price: $172.50 Pages: 314 Content: This collection of essays has been written ... More about Book Published: Modern Challenges to the Rule of Law.
Author: John Katz QC Publisher: LexisNexis ISBN: 978-1-877511-96-7 Publication: April 2011 Price: $149.50 Pages: 362 Content: The publisher says this is a practical guidance handbook on search orders, ancillary orders and practice and procedure generally, and is the first stand-alone New Zealand text on the subject. Originally developed as Anton ... More about Book Published: Search Orders.
The release of the Brookers Unit Titles Handbook 2011 by Rod Thomas, who is senior lecturer in law at AUT University in Auckland, is very timely indeed given that the Unit Titles Act 2010 came into force on 20 June 2011. Rod is well known as an acknowledged expert in unit titles. His early ... More about Brookers Unit Titles Handbook 2011.
Auckland lawyer Matt Sumpter has won the 2010 JF Northey Memorial Book Award for New Zealand’s first comprehensive text on competition law and policy. The award is made by the Legal Research Foundation for monographs or texts which have been published between 1 January and 31 December the previous year. It was ... More about Matt Sumpter wins 2010 JF Northey Memorial Book Award.
The New Zealand Law Society Library now has a “stunning” array of resources available, says Wellington-based librarian Robin Anderson. The Society’s new national law library came into existence on 31 January 2009 with the transfer of the former Auckland District Law Society library to the NZLS. And the move from the ... More about Stunning array of resources at Law Society Library.
Reviewed by Steven Price. Reading the latest edition of this terrific text, it’s hard not to be struck by the breathtaking rate of change of New Zealand’s media law. The five years since the last edition have seen the Fairfax contempt prosecution and a string of cases involving ... More about Book Review: Media Law in New Zealand, 6th edition.
This is the 10th edition of a popular text which was first published in 1954. The book is aimed at providing a concise guide to the law of trusts, wills and administration primarily for students but also at a basic level for practitioners. The new edition has been written primarily to ... More about Nevill’s Law of Trusts, Wills and Administration.
NZLS Legal Executive Diploma course director Dr Cordelia Thomas and her two fellow authors have won a major publishing award for their book Principles of Law for New Zealand Business Students (fourth edition). The book won the award for best book in higher education publishing, one of three categories in ... More about Principles of Law for New Zealand Business Students wins award.
Reviewed by Ken Lord* Drafting Trusts and Will Trusts in New Zealand by James Kessler QC and Kerry Ayers, Thomson Reuters (2010). ISBN 9780864727008. Paperback 348 pages. $150 plus GST. Every lawyer in New Zealand who acts for clients setting up trusts or will trusts should have access to, or own, a copy of ... More about Book Review: Drafting Wills and Trusts.
Adams on Criminal Law 2011 Student Edition Author: Jeremy Finn Consulting Editor: Sir Bruce Robertson Publisher: Thomson Reuters Publication: December 2010 Pages: 686 ISBN: 978-0-86472-709-1 Content: Includes the text of the Crimes Act 1961 with commentary on key sections. Includes a Table of Cases, Table of Statutes and Regulations and Subject ... More about Legal Books, December 2010.
Associations and Clubs Law in Australia and New Zealand, 3rd edition Author: AS Sievers Publisher: The Federation Press Publication: November 2010 ISBN: 978-1-862877-351 Content: Information on voluntary and incorporated associations in Australia, with information on New Zealand included. Price: A$39.95 (excludes postage and handling). Butterworths Crimes Act 1961, 15th edition ... More about Legal Books, November 2010.
Arbitration by Anthony Willy, Thomson Reuters (2010). ISBN 9780864727039. Paperback 393 pages. $150 plus GST. When the Arbitration Act 1996 was first enacted, Judge Willy, as he then was, produced Arbitration in New Zealand. It immediately became an essential handbook for students and those practising or aspiring to practise arbitration. The second edition in 2003 provided ... More about Arbitration.
The problems of parallel litigation A major work on an aspect of international law that has taken on urgent importance was launched in Wellington by Sir Kenneth Keith on 20 August 2009. Written by Victoria University Professor Campbell McLachlan QC, the book looks at the question of what legal principles apply when ... More about Lis Pendens in International Litigation.
Arbitration Author: Anthony Willy Publisher: Thomson Reuters Publication: October 2010 Content: A two-part guide. Part 1 is commentary on the Arbitration Act 1996 and relevant New Zealand and foreign case law. Part 2 gives guidance on the practice of arbitration. Price: $150.00 (excludes GST and postage and handling). Brookers Law Directory 2011 Publisher: Thomson Reuters Publication: ... More about Legal books Sep to Oct 2010.
How Judges Think by Richard A Posner, Harvard University Press (2008). ISBN 9780674028203. US$29.95 (Amazon). Practice at the New Zealand civil bar is increasingly hazardous. Practitioners now face the risk of professional negligence suits by disappointed former clients and an ever more aggressive court costs regime. In view of these new hazards, ... More about How Judges Think.
Tearing pages out of books To commemorate 100 years in business Brookers has published a book, Local to Global, The History of Brookers 1910-2010, charting the history of the business. In 1908 the New Zealand Government consolidated and reprinted all of New Zealand’s statutes — previously spread across 47 large bound volumes — in ... More about Centenary of Brookers.
The Doctrine of Discovery in the English Colonies Otago University Law School senior lecturer Jacinta Ruru hopes a book she has co-authored will lead to a better understanding of New Zealand’s legal system and the politics surrounding relationships between Maori and the Crown. The book, Discovering Indigenous Lands, is ... More about Discovering Indigenous Lands.
The preface of Tim McBride’s New Zealand Civil Rights Handbook (Craig Potton Publishing 2010, 672 pages) declares that its primary purpose is to be an accessible first reference on New Zealand law in this area. It fulfills this purpose extremely well There are already two excellent texts covering much of the ... More about NZ Civil Rights Handbook.
Statute Law in New Zealand, Fourth Edition by JF Burrows and RI Carter, LexisNexis 2009. ISBN 9780408719230. $95 excluding GST, and freight and handling. The fact that Statute Law in New Zealand, first published in 1992, is now in its fourth edition and is about twice the size of the original reflects that fact ... More about Statute Law in NZ 4th ed.
A collection of 10 essays on contract law by Auckland University Emeritus Professor Brian Coote, Contract as Assumption, has been published by Hart Publishing of Oxford. The book gathers together his major writings in the field spanning five decades. Edited and with a preface by Professor Rick Bigwood, it was launched ... More about Contract as Assumption.
Taxation without Representation: The History of Hong Kong’s Troubingly Successful Tax System, by Michael Littlewood. Hong Kong University Press, 376 pages, 2010. Hong Kong’s low-tax policy and its successes and lessons are described in this book by Dr Michael Littlewood of Auckland University’s Law Faculty. Taxation without representation: The ... More about Taxation without Representation.