| Info | Database title |
|---|---|
 | Briefcase (Brookers) A comprehensive index of over 124,000 cases, sourced from a variety of New Zealand Courts and Tribunals, together with selected leading foreign cases. Includes CiteCase to verify case validity and Findcase for full text. |
| Brookers Online Databases A suite of NZ legal resources, including legislation, case law, and topic-based commentaries, e.g. family, criminal, resource management, tax, civil procedure and transport. |
 | Cardiff Index to Legal Abbreviations Search for the meaning of abbreviations for English language legal publications. |
| CCH Intelliconnect Access to resources in: Company, corporate & securities law; Conveyancing & property law; Employment and HR; GST; and, Tax. |
 | HeinOnline Provides international coverage of law and law-related periodicals. e.g: Law Journal Library; Legal Classics; Treaties & Agreements; English Reports; U.S. Statutes at Large; and, World Constitutions Illustrated. |
| Laws of New Zealand Legal encyclopedia. Also in print in the Law Library. |
| LegalTrac Indexes major law journals (1400+ titles - some fulltext) from USA, Australia, NZ, Canada and UK, by subject, author, title, statute and case name. |
| LEXIS Thousands of fulltext files on national and international law. Includes New Zealand Administrative Reports (1995+), District Court Reports (1996+), NZ Resource Management Appeals (1991+). |
| LexisNexis NZ A law resource that includes a broad range of New Zealand subject areas including Family, Land Laws, Laws of New Zealand, Sentencing and Transport, and NZ Acts and Regulations. Note: Access New Zealand Law Journal via this link |
| LINX (Brookers) Index of NZ cases, journal articles, books and conference proceedings, 1986 to date. Acts as a catalogue of the Canterbury, Wellington and Auckland District Law Society Libraries. Links to some judgments in full text. |
| LINXPlus (LexisNexis NZ) Searchable index of NZ cases, journal articles, books and conference proceedings, 1986 to date. Acts as a catalogue of the Canterbury, Wellington and Auckland District Law Society Libraries. Links to many judgments in full text. |
| NZLII: New Zealand Legal Information Institute Free access to legal information and databases on many aspects of New Zealand law. |
| Statutes of New Zealand (Brookers) Under ‘NZ Law Partner’ find Statutes of NZ (currently in force), statutes as passed (‘Assent legislation’) and historical legislation. |
| Unreported Judgments Index Identifies unreported NZ court judgments held in the Law Library at KG/346.(Recent judgments are in set 17 on Close Reserve.) |
| Westlaw Thousands of fulltext files on national and international law. |
| Westlaw NZ (Brookers Online) Westlaw NZ gives you access to legislation, case law, commentary, journals, news and precedents. It has all the content from Brookers Online - relevant and up-to-date information, and expert commentary from trusted authors. |
| WorldLII: World Legal Information Institute Directory of free legal Web sites, with a search engine for searching their contents. Useful for tracing sites for specific countries. |
Law - additional resources
| Info | Database title |
|---|---|
| Academic OneFile Provides indexing/abstracting for over 12,500 journals and reference sources; over 5,000 in full-text and more than 7,300 peer-reviewed. Coverage includes the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects. Includes coverage of the New York Times back to 1995. |
| AGIS Plus Text Covers all aspects of law and is produced by the AGIS Section of the Lionel Murphy Library, Commonwealth Attorney-General's Department in Canberra, Australia. |
| AustLII: Australasian Legal Information Institute Free searchable fulltext of most Australian Commonwealth and State acts, many regulations, and much case law. |
| Australian Federation Fulltext Database The key primary source texts of Australian Federation, including official reports of the debates of the 1890s, the major participants' accounts and memoirs, plus related texts. |
| BAILII: British & Irish Legal Information Institute Uses the AUSTLII search engine with free fulltext databases of cases and legislation from the UK, England, Wales, Ireland, Northern Ireland and Scotland, from various dates including Privy Council decisions (1996-) and House of Lords decisions (1996-). UK legislation (from 1996) is given ‘as passed’ (not consolidated). |
| Banking Information Source (ProQuest) Search essential banking industry publications for information about the financial services industry, banking and industry trends. |
| Broadcasting Standards Authority Decisions Codes of Broadcasting Practice and a searchable free database of decisions on formal complaints from 1994. |
| Brookers Criminal Library (Brookers) ‘Adams on Criminal Law’, 'Adams…Sentencing', ‘Criminal Reports of NZ’ and ‘Misuse of Drugs’. |
| Brookers Employment Library (Brookers) Includes reported and unreported cases as well as commentaries on New Zealand Employment law. |
| Cabinet Manual Searchable version of this authoritative free source on constitutional and procedural matters. Supplemented by the Cabinet 'Step-by-Step Guide’. |
| CanLII: Canadian Legal Information Institute Searchable free fulltext databases of federal and provincial Canadian legislation and case law. |
| CCH Company, Corporate & Securities Law Includes: NZ company law and practice commentary; NZ company law and practice legislation; NZ company law and practice news; NZ company law cases. |
| CCH Conveyancing and Property Law Includes: NZ conveyancing and property law news; NZ conveyancing cases; NZ conveyancing law and practice commentary; NZ conveyancing law and practice legislation. |
| CCH Employment and HR Includes: NZ employment law cases; NZ employment law commentary; NZ employment law legislation; NZ employment legislation news. |
| CCH GST Includes: NZ Goods and Services Tax guide commentary. |
| CCH Tax Includes access to New Zealand tax legislation, case law and commentary. |
| Criminal Justice and Public Safety in Video (Alexander Street Press) A collection of documentaries, training videos, and interviews illustrating the strategies, techniques, and experiences of professionals serving on the front lines of justice and public safety. |
| Criminal Justice Collection Indexing and abstracting, as well as some full-text, for more than 700 titles. |
| Current Contents Connect (Web of Knowledge) Multidisciplinary, current awareness database of articles as they are published. Provides access to the table of contents and bibliographic data from 8000+ leading scholarly research journals and book. |
| Environmental cases (Brookers) A comprehensive database of more than 11,000 reported and unreported case records, sourced from a variety of New Zealand Courts and Tribunals. |
| European Court of Human Rights A free database of fulltext decisions of the European Court of Human Rights and the former European Commission of Human Rights), 1960 on. Use of the Help screens is advisable for successful searching. |
| Family Law Library NZ (LexisNexis) Contains "Family Law Service", "Family Law Journal" , "NZ Family Law Reports" and "Fisher on Matrimonial and Relationship Property". |
| GreenFILE (EBSCOhost) A database covering all aspects of human impact to the environment. Its collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles includes content on global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more. The database provides indexing and abstracts for more than 384,000 records, as well as Open Access full text for more than 4,700 records. |
| Halsbury's Laws of England Provides a comprehensive narrative statement of the law of England and Wales. Written by or in conjunction with leading lawyers, both practitioners and academics, Halsbury's Laws of England covers every proposition of English law (whether statutory or common law), and is divided into alphabetically arranged titles. |
| IDHL: International Digest of Health Legislation Free database of summaries of, or references to, selected national and international health legislation, including web links to available full text. |
| ILO Databases Includes ILOLEX, a free database on international labour standards, containing ILO Conventions and Recommendations, and NATLEX, giving bibliographic references to national labour laws, with summaries and some fulltext. |
| Law Reform Databases Searchable free database of information on over 7,000 Commonwealth and USA Law Reform Commission publications. |
| Legislation NZ Legislation as passed (not annotated) plus bills and SOPs. |
| Maori Land Court Includes free database of selected decisions from 1958 on. See also the Māori Land Court Judgments database and the MLC Minute Book Index, 1865-1910, database at the Law or Hocken Libraries. Hocken has copies of the Minute Books. |
| Maori Land Court Minute Books Index to the Māori Land Court Minute books. Full text records available on microfilm at the Hocken Library. |
| Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law Online A fully updated online edition of the Encyclopedia of Public International Law. |
| New Zealand Case Law Digest (Brookers) Selective index to NZ case law 1986-2004. |
| Oxford International Encyclopedia of Legal History Provides both historical and contemporary comparisons of the world legal systems from ancient to modern times. |
| Oxford Scholarship Online Cross-searchable library containing full text of over 1,900 Oxford books in the areas of Economics and Finance, History, Law, Linguistics, Literature, Philosophy, Political Science, Psychology, and Religion. Specially-commissioned abstracts and keywords are available at book and chapter level. |
| Philip C. Jessup Library This library provides access the International Law Student Association's Journal of International and Comparative Law and Journal of International Law, and to the Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition Compendium. |
| ProQuest Central A leading electronic database providing indexing/abstracting and full-text access to scholarly and general interest publications. It combines information from a number of leading online databases with subjects covering: business, law, education, computing, science, technology, engineering, arts, medicine, and religion. |
| ProQuest Criminal Justice A database of U.S. and international criminal justice journals. The database provides research support for those interested in criminal justice, law enforcement, corrections administration, drug enforcement, rehabilitation, family law, and industrial security. |
| ProQuest Dissertations & Theses A&I A collection of dissertations and theses from around the world, from 1743 to the present day. Where available, the database includes a 24-page preview. Dissertations published since July 1980 include a 350-word abstract written by the author. Master's theses published since 1988 include 150-word abstracts. |
| ProQuest Research Library Provides access to full-text periodicals from a broad general reference database. Search from a diversified mix of scholarly journals, trade publications, and magazines covering over 150 academic disciplines. |
| Regulations of New Zealand (Brookers) New Zealand regulations currently in force. |
| SpringerLink Full-text, peer reviewed journals, books, and reference works. Subjects include: architecture, design, behavioral science, biomedical and life sciences, business, economics, chemistry, materials science, computer science, earth and environmental science, humanities, social sciences, law, mathematics, statistics, medicine, physics, and, professional and applied computing. |
| Succession Law & Practice NSW This service provides a complete practice tool for the general practitioner in this area. It contains essential information: annotated legislation, prescribed forms, commentary on wills law and practice, contested grants, uncontested grants, estate administration and family provision, costs and fees. Precedent clauses for wills with commentary and examples of completed wills are also included. |
| Taylor & Francis Online Collection of full text journals (1400+) in humanities, social sciences, science and technology from Taylor & Francis, Routledge and Psychology Press, including access to back issues from 1997 where available. |
| Te Puna Search the National Bibliographic Database for items held in libraries throughout New Zealand. |
| Wakareo-a-ipurangi Comprehensive and up-to-the-minute online Māori - English - Māori dictionary resource. |
| Wiley-Blackwell journals Full text of 1500 leading scientific, technical, medical, social science and business journals published by Wiley. |
| World Constitutions Illustrated Contains the current constitution for every country, constitutional histories, texts on constitutional law, links to scholarly articles about constitutional development, and a bibliography of selected constitutional books. Browsable by country or resource. |
