The Law Society Library in Christchurch has been operating from post-earthquake premises at 8 Homersham Place Burnside since April 2011. We are pleased to advise that the Library will be relocating back to the Courts building 1st floor Law Courts building 282 Durham Street in early June 2013. Library resources ... More about NZLS Library, Canterbury - moves back to Courts building.
A list of books purchased by the library in April is now available. The list provides a link for each title to the corresponding NZLS catalogue record, showing where the book is held. ... More about New titles - April 2013.
A list of books purchased by the library in March is now available. The list provides a link for each title to the corresponding NZLS catalogue record, showing where the book is held. ... More about New titles - March 2013 .
A list of books purchased by the Library in February is now available. The list provides a link for each title to the corresponding NZLS catalogue record, showing where the book is held. ... More about New titles - February 2013.
A list of books purchased by the Library in January is now available. The list provides a link for each title to the corresponding NZLS catalogue record, showing where the book is held. ... More about New titles - January 2013.
The High Court Earthquake List was set up in the High Court to manage litigation resulting from the Christchurch earthquakes. It began in May 2012, following a commitment by the Chief High Court Judge that earthquake cases will be dealt with as swiftly as the Court’s resources permit. ... More about High Court Earthquake List.
Good news for Hansard users! PDF copies of Hansard indexes have been added to Parliament’s website. Indexes for all sessions of Parliament since August 2002 are available. The Hansard index itemises primary "Questions for oral answer" by subject under the name of the member asking. It also provides a useful ... More about Indexes to Parliamentary Debates (Hansard) now available online.
CCH has released social media links in IntelliConnect® so you can share content on demand via your preferred social media channels – just like sharing a news article! These social media links — to LinkedIn Twitter and Facebook — allow you to share an IntelliConnect® document straight away with LinkedIn ... More about CCH introduces social media links in IntelliConnect.
The NZLS library Auckland is running a three month trial of WiFi for members. This is a free service and members can use their photocopying/printing pin for access. If you do not have a pin you can obtain a daily pin from staff. CCH and LexisNexis databases which the NZLS ... More about Free Wi-Fi trial at the Auckland Library.
PDF copies of the Wills and Trusts Law Reports from 2000- 2004 are now available on the Auckland Wellington and Canterbury computers. The Auckland library also holds the hard copy reports from 2005 on. The reports are published ten times a year and are the only set of law reports ... More about Wills and Trusts Law Reports available.
Access to Lawtel is now available in the 3 NZLS research libraries in Auckland Wellington and Canterbury. Lawtel provides access to UK legislation case summaries and journal articles and replaces CLI (Current Legal Information) which has been discontinued. Lawtel includes: Over 60 000 case reports across a wide range of ... More about Lawtel - UK online legal resource now available.
A web version of the New Zealand Official Yearbooks from 1893-2008 is now available on the Statistics New Zealand website. Since 1893 New Zealand's Official Yearbooks have captured the stories of New Zealand in words and in numbers. The Yearbooks are an incredibly rich one-stop-shop for data and information from ... More about Digital New Zealand Official Yearbooks available on the web.
The NZLS Library service has compiled a list of insurance resources - texts online resources and selected insurance case head notes and citations. It is intended that this will provide a useful starting point for research in insurance matters arising from the earthquakes. The list is not exhaustive and further ... More about Earthquake – insurance resources.
This is one of the more academic databases we provide; although with more than 450 full text journals it is certainly good value. Economical and economics. A search for example on government regulation produced over 1 000 academic articles 11 magazine articles 1300 news items and even three radio/podcast items ... More about Business Economics and Theory.
AustLII has recently released the AustLII iPhone app. It is available as a free download from the app store. Due to incredible demand AustLII's developers are working on applications for other devices including the iPad to be realeased soon, as well as Android and Blackberry apps. ... More about AustLII iPhone app.
Not a military officer but a very helpful broad database of articles and books. This is for when you want a change from Google. It has nearly 100 000 000 article and book references including lots of full text material. Subjects cover everything from time management (vital for lawyers) to ... More about General Onefile.
One of the Epic databases available to you in the libraries and though your my.lawsociety pages is Legaltrac. This database indexes a large number of legal journals from around the world and includes some New Zealand journals. It indexes law reviews bar association journals and legal newspapers. Some of these ... More about Epic databases – Legaltrac.
The NZLS Library books and journals are on an internet catalogue that is free and easily accessible from our website. Go to http://www.lawsocietylibrary.org.nz/catalogue/ to look at it. This catalogue is much more comprehensive that the previous LINX catalogue. The catalogue contains not only records of all the texts in the ... More about The Library catalogue.
The Nursing and Allied Health Collection database indexes over 1 000 journals and has over 6 million article references. This is a huge depth of information covering everything from healthcare reform administration nursing practices and patient care. It is a good way of finding articles on topics from best practice ... More about Nursing and Allied Heath Collection.
The Gale World History in Context is more of a portal or gateway than a database. It is a very good way to discover a topic and then drill down into it. It includes images primary source materials extracts from books and encyclopedias magazines academic journals newspapers and even audio. ... More about Gale World History in Context.
The Ministry of Justice now has a section on its website which provides information and resources to assist you to provide legal aid services. It includes forms proceedings steps rates and fees and manuals. You will also find guidelines and criteria for approval as a legal aid provider and details ... More about Information for legal aid providers.
This EPIC Gale database has over 4 million references to articles and news including many with the full text attached. It will be a useful database for those working in the CHYPF Family law Mental Health and Criminal law areas. In addition you may find useful insights to your own ... More about Psychology Collection.
In-house lawyers may not be aware of the full range of resources and services offered by the NZLS library. The libraries offer invaluable tools that make it easier to stay on top of legal and corporate developments. Situated in Auckland Wellington Dunedin and Christchurch the libraries also offer a nationwide ... More about NZLS library services relevant for in-house lawyers.
This is a database of information on companies markets and industries and has a wide range of sources including business and trade journals newspapers and news agencies and company profiles from 1980 onwards. A search for “corporate counsel” in the title keyword or abstract fields found over 1 000 hits ... More about Business and Company ASAP.
This major database indexes more than 11 000 journals and includes more than 3 500 journals available in full text. The focus of the database is on the Humanities Medicine Science and Technology. In addition it also has podcasts and even videos and it also covers foreign language However it ... More about Academic One file.
The Appendices to the Journals of the House of Representatives (AtoJs or AJHRs) are a collection of government related reports including reports documenting the work of government departments and public organisations as well as reports of select committees and commissions of inquiry. The AtoJs have been published every year since ... More about Digitisation of the “A to J’s” reaches 1906.
This database provides access to selected content from over 500 industry journals and news sources covering both historic and current issues relating to the cultural leisure and economic aspects of tourism. The collection also has information from travel handbooks so that you can research travel possibilities to help with that ... More about Hospitality, Tourism and Leisure Collection.
This is a database from Ebsco that you can access in the 3 main law libraries and from your my.lawsociety page going to Library Epic and then Ebsco. It includes quite a few full text journals as well as index references to even more materials. May of the full text ... More about Masterfile Premier.
This is a very large database of over 9.5 million references. It covers all health issues including illnesses chronic illnesses healthcare reforms fitness professional standards and evaluation. It is important to note that these are covered from the health professional and academic perspective rather than a consumer perspective. It is ... More about Health Reference Center Academic.
This is a broad general current events and general interest database that brings together sources of current information. It is not a current affairs database so the Chilean ash cloud is not mentioned much at the moment but a search on family law issues brings up interesting articles on employment ... More about General Reference Center Gold.
This database of over three and a half million references covers a broad and slightly surprising combination of fields. Advertising public relations mass media the internet and social networks are there but so are journalism and linguistics. Communications in all its many and varied forms. Given that communication is part ... More about Communications and Mass Media Collection.
NZLII has announced that the 1908 consolidated statutes are now available on www.nzlii.org The data is provided by Auckland University in partnership with the PCO (Parliamentary Counsel Office). With the provision of these statutes all New Zealand statutes from 1841 are now available free of charge online. Other historical Acts ... More about 1908 NZ Consolidated Acts now available on NZLII.
The Supreme Court sitting as a panel of seven judges has abolished a 400-year-old law that grants expert witnesses testifying in court immunity from charges of breach of duty in contract or negligence. The full article is here and further comment on the UK Supreme Court blog can be found ... More about England and Wales: 400-Year-Old Expert Witness Immunity Abolished.