Arbitration, 2nd editionBy Anthony Willy and Terry SissonsA lot has changed in the world of arbitration since retired District Court Judge Anthony Willy brought out the first edition in 2010. He has been joined by barrister and arbitrator Terry Sissons. Aimed at practitioners and students, the book contains 19 chapters ... More about Some recent legal books.
The Complete Guide to Persuasive Advocacy, 2nd Edition, 2018 (Reprint)By Professor George Hampel AM QC, Justice Ann Ainslie-Wallace, Elizabeth Brimer and Randall KuneReviewed by Garry WilliamsAs Murray Gleeson AC QC (Chief Justice of Australia 1998-2008) says in the foreword to the first edition of the Advocacy Manual – The Complete ... More about The Australian Advocacy Institute's Advocacy Manual.
By William Rose (revised and updated by Roger Eastman), 9th edition, Oxford University Press, 2017Reviewed by Garry WilliamsIt is a matter of some regret to me that Mylward v Weldon (1596) appears to have been forgotten.In Mylward’s case, the plaintiff had his son, Richard (instead of counsel), draw up the ... More about Pleadings Without Tears – A Guide to Legal Drafting Under the Civil Procedure Rules.
By Brian K Johnson and Marsha HunterReviewed by Garry WilliamsIn 1992, Tom Amberry, a 72-year-old retiree, walked onto a basketball court in Riverside, California and made 2,750 consecutive free throws without a miss. This, at the time, was a world record. In fact, Dr Amberry could have made more, but ... More about The Articulate Advocate: Persuasive Skills for Lawyers in Trials, Appeals, Arbitrations and Motions, 2nd edition.
Edited by Andrew EruetiReviewed by Dr Maria A Pozza and Miaana WaldenThis is a unique contribution of informative and critical essays on the effects of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples in this country. Comprising 232 pages, including the table of contents, index and a copy ... More about International Indigenous Rights in Aotearoa New Zealand.
By Andrew Goodman, Wildy, Simmonds & Hill Publishing, 2018Reviewed by Garry WilliamsWhen I was eight years old I had to stay home from school for a week because of an ear infection.As I had an irresponsible parent (and only one at that), I was allowed to watch daytime television, which ... More about How Judges Decide Cases — Reading, Writing and Analysing Judgments, 2nd edition.
By Larry S. Pozner & Roger J Dodd, 3rd Edition, LexisNexisReviewed by Garry WilliamsI think I first saw Irving Younger’s The Ten Commandments of Cross-Examination on VHS when I was a summer clerk at the end of 1991. By then, it had been around for over 15 years and the ... More about Cross-Examination: Science and Technique.
By Judge Arthur Tompkins Reviewed by Louisa Gommans Wellington solicitor and founding co-trustee of the New Zealand Art Crime Research Trust Louise Gommans talks to Judge Arthur Tompkins, author of the recently published Plundering Beauty: A History of Art Crime during War.Tell me how you became involved in the study ... More about Plundering Beauty: A History of Art Crime during War.
Burrows, Finn and Todd on the Law of Contract in New Zealand, 6th editionBy Jeremy Finn, Stephen Todd and Matthew BarberFirst published in 1997 to replace the New Zealand edition of the English Cheshire and Fifoot, the longstanding author team of Burrows, Finn and Todd has now become Finn, Todd ... More about New legal books.
By Alison Quentin-Baxter and Janet McLean (Auckland University Press, December 2017)Reviewed by Sir Geoffrey Palmer QCThis book exhibits detailed and deep scholarship.Supported by a Law Foundation grant, it has been ten years in the making.Few New Zealand lawyers enjoy a deep understanding of the law relating to the monarchy in ... More about This Realm of New Zealand – The Sovereign, The Governor-General, The Crown.
Reviewed by Garry WilliamsOne of the first things I did when I arrived in London in late 1997 was to search out the antiquarian legal bookshop Wildy & Sons.Given the rich pickings of things to see and do in London this might seem an odd thing for someone in their ... More about Advocacy: The tools of the trade – The UK Bar Manual on Advocacy.
Feminist Judgments of Aotearoa New Zealand – Te Rino: A Two-Stranded Rope (Hart Publishing, Oxford and Portland, 2017) $173.Edited by Elisabeth McDonald, Rhonda Powell, Māmari Stephens and Rosemary Hunter.Reviewed by Caroline HickmanFeminist Judgments Aotearoa is a collection of key New Zealand judgments that have been re-written in a way that ... More about From tempting idea to weighty tome.
The first edition of the New Zealand Women’s Law Journal – Te Aho Kawe Kaupapa Ture a ngā Wāhine was launched on 27 November 2017.The brainchild of Ana Lenard, an associate at Auckland law firm Gilbert Walker, and Allanah Colley, a judges’ clerk at the Wellington High Court, the Women’s ... More about New Zealand Women’s Law Journal Te Aho Kawe Kaupapa Ture a ngā Wāhine.
Criminal Justice: A New Zealand IntroductionEdited by Jarrod Gilbert and Greg NewboldThe 14 chapters and 18 contributors consider the key ideas, principles and frameworks defining New Zealand’s criminal justice system. The editors say their objective is a book which not only serves as a key resource for students, but which ... More about New legal books received.
Juridical Encounters: Māori and the Colonial CourtsBy Shaunnagh DorsettReviewed by Jeremy FinnMost New Zealand lawyers will not be particularly familiar with details of the legal developments during the Crown Colony period from 1840 to 1854. This general lack of awareness is substantially due to the dearth of good historical writing ... More about Profound insights into early New Zealand law.
Cross on Evidence, 10th editionEdited by Justice Mathew DownsThis is drawn from the looseleaf and online publication. New Zealand editions of the English text began in 1963, with the 9th edition published in November 2012. The Evidence Act 2006 has now been in effect for a decade and the text ... More about New legal books.
Reviewed by Sir Geoffrey Palmer QCColin James is a very experienced and long serving political journalist of high quality, and a life member of the Parliamentary Press Gallery.Being a journalist is an important role, despite the endangered nature of the species due to the challenges of the digital age.Traditionally, political ... More about Unquiet Time: Aotearoa/New Zealand in a fast-changing world.
Reviewed by Maria PozzaBoasting an impressive list of authors, Privacy Law in New Zealand is a collection of works which considers some of the fundamental aspects of privacy law.The editors point out that, since their first edition some six years ago, technology has advanced at such a pace that its ... More about Privacy Law in New Zealand, 2nd edition.
Reviewed by Sir Geoffrey Palmer QCAt 896 pages this is a mammoth book for a small Parliament. But it will be a boon for any lawyers whose clients have anything to do with Parliament.There are many traps for lawyers representing clients in front of the House of Representatives.Difficulties can arise ... More about McGee Parliamentary Practice in New Zealand, 4th edition.
Reviewed by Eugen TrombitasAlastair McKenzie recently released the 10th edition of GST – a practical guide. The 10th edition of this excellent text is a rare feat in tax literature both in New Zealand and internationally. It is the GST equivalent of Real Madrid’s La Decima in winning its 10th ... More about GST – a practical guide, 10th edition.
Reviewed by Sir Geoffrey Palmer QCThe second edition of Matthew Smith’s book on judicial review will be useful to practitioners struggling to use the extensive case law on judicial review.The book is 1300 pages long, itself an indication of how extensive a field administrative law has become. It is highly ... More about New Zealand Judicial Review Handbook, 2nd edition.
Reviewed by Kathryn BeckA book on workplace bullying would not normally be at the top of my summer reading list but this summer, duty called. Was I bullied into doing this review when I would rather have been reading a worthy award winner or riveting thriller, you may ask?After reading ... More about Workplace Bullying.
Reviewed by Greg KellyIt was with some reluctance that I added this book to my pile of summer reading; textbooks usually miss the cut over the break. I found, however, it to be informative, interesting and easy to read.As some practitioners will be aware there has been something of a ... More about Passing Wealth on Death: Will-Substitutes in Comparative Perspective.
Environmental Law in New ZealandPeter Salmon and David Grinlington General EditorsReviewed by Jo-Anne Cook-MunroAt a massive 1,135 pages, this new book on environmental law in New Zealand rivals existing publications in content and size. The book includes recent cases decided in 2015, and also covers the classic cases for environmental ... More about Book Review: Environmental Law in New Zealand.
Burrows and Cheer: Media Law in New Zealand, 7th editionBy Ursula CheerThis comprehensively updates the edition published in 2010, particularly in the areas of defamation, privacy, breach of confidence, contempt, court reporting and media complaints bodies. A new chapter on the New Zealand advertising standards regime has also been added. ... More about New legal books, July 2015.
Environmental Law in New ZealandPeter Salmon and David Grinlinton General EditorsA team of 13 authors provides commentary on the law and policy behind the different aspects of the law covering the management and preservation of New Zealand's environment. The book is organised to move from general principles and how these ... More about New legal books, June 2015.
Burrows and Carter Statute Law in New Zealand, 5th edition By Ross Carter First published in 1992, this updates the 2009 fourth edition. Parliamentary Counsel Ross Carter is sole author for the first time. The work is a guide to statutory interpretation and also the preparation and presentation of legislation ... More about New legal books, May 2015.
Antarctica in International Law Edited by Ben Saul and Tim Stephens The editors are law professors at the University of Sydney. The book includes a large number of documents relevant to Antarctica, including the text of treaties and agreements between New Zealand and other countries, judicial decisions, United Nations and ... More about New legal books, March - April 2015.
Reviewed by Nic Scampion I recently took my children – impressionable 4- and 7-year-olds – to America. American advertising can be simple, but it is effective. It dawned on me while we were there that, if it’s going to be a fair fight, consumers need protection. That’s why “consumer law” ... More about Book Review: Consumer Law in New Zealand, 2nd Edition.
Reviewed by Rebecca Sellers It is a widely held opinion that deep and strong capital markets would bring significant benefits to New Zealand’s economy and people. Business would have access to capital to fund growth, creating jobs and paying taxes; New Zealanders would have savings to fund their retirement. Industry ... More about Book Review: Financial Markets Conduct Regulation: A Practitioner's Guide.
Reviewed by Brianna Parkinson The first edition of this book was published in 1980, and three more editions followed in 1997, 2005 and 2011. Each edition has been a well-regarded reference source for resource management and environmental practitioners. This fifth edition builds on that solid foundation and brings the law ... More about Book Review: Environmental and Resource Management Law, 5th edition.
Reviewed by Helen Andrews As the authors of this text acknowledge from the outset, the broad “sustainable management” purpose of the Resource Management Act 1991 (RMA) means the Act, and regulations made under it, impact many aspects of our daily lives. From wanting to build that deck or house extension, ... More about Book Review: Focus on Resource Management Law.
Reviewed by Nic Scampion In E-Commerce and the Law, Susan Corbett (Associate Professor in Commercial Law at Victoria University of Wellington) and Alexandra Sims (Associate Professor in Commercial Law at the University of Auckland) have written a good introduction to an important and developing area. They describe the law as ... More about Book Review: E-Commerce and the Law.
Reviewed by Chris Macklin Proceeds of crime litigation by the Commissioner of Police has resulted in hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of assets being restrained, and many millions of dollars of assets being forfeited to the Crown. The value of assets restrained and forfeited continues to grow, on some ... More about Book Review: Proceeds of Crime Law in New Zealand.
Reviewed by Sharron Wooler Goodness knows how the author managed to find time to not only write this book, but to provide a webinar on its many learnings! I have struggled to fit in writing a review. The second sentence of this book says it all: “Our profession is littered ... More about Book Review: Balancing Work and Life: A Practical Guide for Lawyers.
Reviewed by Rebecca Scott This new text published by Thomson Reuters is the first New Zealand franchise of Colinvaux’s Law of Insurance. Based on the English text – which also has a Hong Kong edition (a Singapore version is coming soon) –Colinvaux is an exhaustive and up-to-date work. International expert ... More about Book Review: Colinvaux's Law of Insurance in New Zealand.
Reviewed by Peter Sara Getting the balance right is key when writing a book about ACC. The technical aspects of the Act are complex and invite controversy and debate. Large tomes could be written which thoroughly address the issues, but hardly anyone would be interested in reading them. A practical ... More about Book Review: Accident Compensation Act: Key Sections and Commentary.
Reviewed by Rachael Zame Gender equality continues to be a hot topic around the world and across all professions, even making its way into an Oscars acceptance speech this year. The statistics for women in law are disheartening – as at February 2015, 47% of New Zealand lawyers are female, ... More about Book Review: Raising the Bar: Women in Law and Business.
Reviewed by Michael Quigg This book is aimed at providing a broad overview of employment. It acknowledges that employment law, possibly more than any other area of the law, has the greatest impact on our daily lives. It is a timely overview as the future shape of employment changes due ... More about Book Review: Employment Law in New Zealand.
Reviewed by Geoff Adlam New Zealand’s first Justice of the Peace stepped ashore in the Bay of Islands on 14 June 1814. Thomas Kendall was a missionary and his appointment was made by the New South Wales Governor. He was sacked in 1823 by Samuel Marsden but the groundwork had ... More about Book Review: Reading the Riot Act: A 200-year History of Justices of the Peace in New Zealand.
Reviewed by Jennifer Moore The image of the elder flower on the front cover of Elder Law in New Zealand is appropriate and clever. The white flowers optimistically suggest hope, and a promising future for New Zealand’s elderly population. The image evokes the book’s central aim, which is to encourage ... More about Book Review: Elder Law in New Zealand.
Authors: Ceri Warnock and Maree Baker-Galloway Publisher: LexisNexis NZ Ltd ISBN: 978-1-927248-74-4 Publication: February 2015 Price: $120.00 (GST included, p&h excluded) Pages: 339 Format: Paperback and e-book Content: The main target audience is junior practitioners and tertiary students. The authors explain the basic principles and mechanisms of resource management law ... More about New Book: Focus on Resource Management Law.
The New Zealand Council of Law Reporting has established a website for one-off purchases of New Zealand Law Report (NZLR) case reports. The Council says the site has been created to assist with improving access to justice by making authorised copies of NZLR-reported cases available on a click and pay ... More about Single purchase of NZLR cases now available.
Authors: John Earles, WLB Douglas, Chris Kelly, Greg Kelly Publisher: LexisNexis NZ Ltd ISBN: 978-1-927227-99-2 Publication: December 2014 Price: $437 (GST included, p&h excluded) Pages: 890 Format: Hardback plus CD Content The fifth edition was published in June 2008. The book contains 93 forms and precedents. The authors take a ... More about New Book: Dobbie's Probate and Administration Practice, 6th Edition.
Author: Mai Chen Publisher: LexisNexis NZ Ltd ISBN: 978-1-927248-70-6 Publication: December 2014 Price: $195 (GST included, p&h excluded) Pages: 1166 Format: Paperback and e-book Content The author describes this as an outsider’s guide to the insider’s view of government. It is targeted at business people and their advisors and industry ... More about New Book: Public Law Toolbox, 2nd Edition.
Editor: Kate Tokeley Authors: Barry Allan, Trish O’Sullivan, Jessica Palmer, Alma Peknezovic, Alexandra Sims, Kate Tokeley, Gordon Walker, Debra Wilson Publisher: LexisNexis NZ Ltd ISBN: 978-1-927227-97-8 Publication: January 2015 Price: $150 (GST included, p&h excluded) Pages: 543 Format: Paperback and e-book Content The first edition was published in 2000 and ... More about New Book: Consumer Law in New Zealand, 2nd Edition.
General Editors: Robert Merkin and Chris Nicoll Contributing Editors: Rohan Havelock, Sophie Merkin, Rebecca Sellers Publisher: Thomson Reuters New Zealand Ltd ISBN: 978-0-864728-64-7 Publication: December 2014 Price: $340 (GST and p&h excluded) Pages: 1458 Format: Paperback and e-book Content This is based on the English publication Colinveaux’s Law of Insurance. ... More about New Book: Colinvaux's Law of Insurance in New Zealand.
Author: Juliet Chevalier-Watts Publisher: Thomson Reuters New Zealand Ltd ISBN: 978-0-864728-97-5 Publication: December 2014 Price: $96 (GST and p&h excluded) Pages: 368 Format: Paperback and e-book Content Beginning with the history of New Zealand charity law and the nature of charitable trusts, charitable purpose and public benefit, this work draws ... More about New Book: Law of Charity.
Authors: Victoria Stace, Trish Keeper, Thomas Gibbons, Chris Holland, Nathanael Starrenburg Publisher: LexisNexis NZ Ltd ISBN: 978-1-927248-00-3 Publication: December 2014 Pages: 644 Format: Paperback and e-book Price: $184 (GST included, p&h excluded). Content The Financial Markets Act 2013 was the largest change to New Zealand’s financial markets law in 20 ... More about New Book: Financial Markets Conduct Regulation: A Practitioner's Guide.
Author: Julia Batchelor-Smith Publisher: LexisNexis NZ Ltd ISBN: 978-1-927248-02-7 Publication: January 2015 Price: $50 (GST included, p&h excluded) Pages: 392 Format: Paperback and e-book Content Commercial litigator Julia Batchelor-Smith explores issues which impact on the work/life balance of New Zealand lawyers and provides practical and constructive managing and coping techniques ... More about New Book: Balancing Work and Life: A Practical Guide for Lawyers.
General Editors: Kate Diesfeld and Ian McIntosh Publisher: Thomson Reuters New Zealand Ltd ISBN: 978-0--864728-91-3 Publication: December 2014 Price: $150 (GST excluded, p&h excluded) Pages: 633 Format: Paperback Content This brings together contributions from a wide range of authors, the common theme being the fundamentals of law for older people ... More about New Book: Elder Law in New Zealand.
Authors: Susan Corbett and Alexandra Sims Publisher: Thomson Reuters New Zealand Ltd ISBN: 978-0--864728-74-6 Publication: November 2014 Price: $85 (GST excluded, p&h excluded) Pages: 314 Format: Paperback Content The authors aim to assist e-traders and their legal advisors to understand how to conduct online business in compliance with New Zealand ... More about New Book: E-Commerce and the Law.
Author: Ben Thompson Publisher: LexisNexis NZ Ltd ISBN: 978-1-927227-96-1 Publication: November 2014 Price: $120 (GST included, p&h excluded) Pages: 195 Format: Paperback and e-book Content Experienced ACC practitioner Ben Thompson provides a practical analysis and commentary on the sections of our ACC legislation which are pivotal to rights and entitlements ... More about New Book: Accident Compensation Act: Key Sections and Commentary.
Reviewed by Matthew Smith Framing the Commons: Cross-Cutting Issues in Regulation is the third and final instalment of the New Zealand Law Foundation’s pioneering study of regulatory reform in New Zealand. “It is,” quoting from the Foreword at p7, “the culmination of a body of work that also includes the ... More about Book Review: Framing the Commons: Cross-Cutting Issues in Regulation.
Reviewed by Sir Geoffrey Palmer Dr Grant Morris, a senior lecturer in law at the Victoria University of Wellington, has written an intriguing account of the legal career of Sir James Prendergast. Prendergast was Attorney-General of New Zealand for 10 years, Chief Justice for 24 years before retiring in 1899 ... More about Book Review: Prendergast: Legal Villain?.
Author: Natalya King Publisher: Thomson Reuters New Zealand Ltd ISBN: 978-0-864728-93-7 Publication: December 2014 Price: $42.00 (GST excluded, p&h excluded) Pages: 256 Format: Paperback Content Natalya King says she became tired of reading the same statistics and having the same conversations about the lack of female progress in New Zealand’s ... More about New Book: Raising the Bar: Women in law and business.
Reviewed by Geoff Adlam Peter Williams is a wonderful story-teller. This is perhaps not all that surprising given his long career as a leading defence lawyer. Sub-titled “And other remarkable tales from a life in the law”, the book presents 36 well-crafted tales from the legal life of one of ... More about Book Review: The Dwarf Who Moved by Peter Williams QC.
Editor: Richard Scragg Authors: Simon Dorset, Matthew Harris, Sarah Hughes, Stephen Hunter, Jonathan Scragg, Richard Scragg, Aaron Sheriff, Andrew Simpson, Lynne Taylor Publisher: LexisNexis NZ Ltd ISBN: 978-1-927248-07-2 Publication: November 2014 Price: $85 (GST included, p&h excluded) Pages: 172 Format: Paperback and e-book Content Editor Richard Scragg says the book ... More about New Book: Legal Writing - A Complete Guide for a Career in Law.
Authors: Gordon Anderson with John Hughes Publisher: LexisNexis NZ Ltd ISBN: 978-1-927149-56-0 Publication: October 2014 Price: $120 (GST included, p&h excluded) Pages: 743 Format: Paperback and e-book Content This is the first treatise on New Zealand employment law since 1989. Victoria University law professor Gordon Anderson says this has been ... More about New Book: Employment Law in New Zealand.
Reviewed by Chris Macklin The first and second editions of this book will already be well known to many; I am sure I am not the only litigator to have had a High Court Judge wave one edition or the other around during heated (but respectful) argument on an unexpected ... More about Book Review: The Evidence Act 2006 - Act and Analysis, 3rd Edition.
Reviewed by Sir Geoffrey Palmer Gareth Evans is in his own words “a legal academic and barrister, civil libertarian and constitutional reformer” who went into Australian politics. He became Attorney-General in 1983 at the age of thirty-nine. He had a long and distinguished ministerial career first as Attorney-General, then as ... More about Book Review: Inside the Hawke Keating Government - A Cabinet Diary.
Reviewed by Jason McHerron Twenty one years ago, Philip Joseph wrote the first specialist public law text covering constitutional and administrative law from a distinctively New Zealand perspective. In his foreword to the second edition in 2001, Lord Cooke described Professor Joseph as New Zealand’s leading public law academic, praising ... More about Book Review: Constitutional and Administrative Law in New Zealand, 4th edition.
Authors: Alison Cleland and Khylee Quince Publisher: LexisNexis NZ Ltd ISBN: 978-1-927183-78-6 Publication: July 2014 Price: $99.00 (GST included, p&h excluded) Pages: 283 Format: Paperback and e-book Content The authors teach a youth justice course at Otago University and have developed this work to explore the origins, principles and practices ... More about New Book: Youth Justice in Aotearoa New Zealand - Law, Policy and Critique.
Authors: Richard Mahoney, Elisabeth McDonald, Scott Optican, Yvette Tinsley Publisher: Brookers Ltd ISBN: 978-0-864728-61-6 Publication: July 2014 Price: $100.00 (GST and p&h excluded) Pages: 712 Format: Paperback Content The second edition was published in December 2012. The book is structured around the Act, with section-by-section commentary and analysis. The latest ... More about New Book: The Evidence Act 2006: Act & Analysis, 3rd Edition.
Reviewed by Rachael Zame and Sharron Wooler This book details the creation of Auckland Council, largely from the perspective of a variety of key people involved in the creation of the new Supercity. The stated “goal” of the book is to assist Auckland ratepayers to better participate in local government ... More about Book Review: Transforming Auckland - The creation of Auckland Council.
Reviewed by Jennifer Wademan In this book the authors set out to provide the busy practitioner with practical guidance on the issues that are relevant when faced with a client going through a relationship breakdown. With respect to the financial aspects associated with ending a relationship, they achieve this goal ... More about Book Review: Relationship Dissolution, 2nd Edition.
By Matthew Smith Through his scholarship and in his legal practice Graham Taylor has made a significant contribution to the development of our “significantly indigenous” body of administrative law (Budget Rent A Car Ltd [1985] 2 NZLR 414, 418 (CA) per Lord Cooke) and, within it, to the law and ... More about Book Review: Judicial Review - A New Zealand Perspective, 3rd Edition.
Authors: Bill Atkin, John Caldwell, Geoff Harrison, David Hicks, Bill Patterson, Kirsty Swadling Publisher: LexisNexis NZ Ltd ISBN: 978-1-927227-93-0 Publication: May 2014 Price: $161.00 (GST included, p&h excluded) Pages: 753 Format: Paperback Content This has been assembled from commentary in the looseleaf services Fisher on Matrimonial and Relationship Property and ... More about New Book: Relationship Dissolution, 2nd Edition.
Reviewed by Jenna Riddle The 4th Edition of Butterworths Introduction to Commercial Law provides commentary and relevant case law on a broad range of subsets within the commercial law field. While the target audience of the text is students of law, it is equally likely to be helpful for practitioners ... More about Book Review: Butterworths Introduction to Commercial Law, 4th Edition.
Author: Mai Chen Publisher: LexisNexis NZ Ltd ISBN: 978-1-927227-91-6 Publication: May 2014 Price: $65.00 (GST and p&h excluded) Pages: 184 Format: Paperback and e-book Content Quoting Confucius’ saying “study the past if you would define the future”, public lawyer Mai Chen seeks to provide insights from key players in the ... More about New Book: Transforming Auckland - The Creation of Auckland Council.
Author: Graham Taylor Publisher: LexisNexis NZ Ltd ISBN: 978-1-927227-80-0 Publication: May 2014 Price: $167.00 (GST included, p&h excluded) Pages: 785 Format: Paperback and e-book Content Graham Taylor sets out to provide a practical and concise book on the process of judicial review by concentrating on what the various cases have ... More about New Book: Judicial Review - A New Zealand Perspective, 3rd Edition.
Author: Philip A Joseph Publisher: Brookers Ltd ISBN: 978-0-864728-43-2 Publication: May 2014 Price: $190.00 (GST and p&h excluded) Pages: 1466 Format: Paperback Content The third edition was published in 2007. Professor Joseph has updated and revised the material to incorporate all post-2007 legislation and decisions of the courts. A new ... More about New Book: Constitutional and Administrative Law in New Zealand, 4th edition.
Reviewed by Andrew Butler* The recent publication of Volume 1 of the New Zealand Trust Reports (NZTR) is to be welcomed. Published by CCH New Zealand Ltd, the first volume in the paperback report series covers the period 1965 to 2003. At almost 950 pages the volume packs in well ... More about Book Review: New Zealand Trust Reports, Vol 1 (Part 1), 1965-2003.
Reviewed by Richard Scragg* This is the first new edition of Tyree’s Banking Law in New Zealand since 2003. Significant changes have taken place in the intervening years in terms of the way in which we undertake banking transactions and the legislative environment in which financial transactions are conducted. These ... More about Book Review: Tyree's Banking Law in New Zealand, 3rd Edition.
Editors: Susy Frankel and John Yeabsley Publisher: Victoria University Press ISBN: 978-0-864739-34-6 Publication: April 2014 Price: $50.00 (GST included, p&h excluded) Pages: 207 Format: Paperback Content This is the third and final instalment of the Law Foundation’ study of regulatory reform in New Zealand. The book contains five essays which ... More about New Book: Framing the Commons. Cross-Cutting Issues in Regulation.
Authors: Alan Tyree, Kellee Clark, Andru Isac, Simon Jensen, Charles Rickett, Bernard Robertson, Duncan Webb Publisher: LexisNexis NZ Ltd ISBN: 978-1-927227-50-3 Publication: January 2014 Price: $180.00 (GST included, p&h excluded) Pages: 520 Format: Paperback and e-book Content The book looks at the legislative foundation for the banking industry, the role ... More about New Book: Tyree's Banking Law in New Zealand, 3rd edition.
Editor: Richard J Varey Authors: Andrea Bather, Susan Corbett, Fabrice Desmarais, Jagdeep Kaur Singh-Ladhar, Bram van Melle Publisher: LexisNexis NZ Ltd ISBN: 978-1-927227-50-3 Publication: January 2014 Price: $127.00 (GST included, p&h excluded) Pages: 674 Format: Paperback and e-book Content Headed by marketing Professor Richard Varey from Waikato University’s Management School, ... More about New Book: New Zealand Law for Marketers, 2nd Edition.
Authors: Juliet Chevalier-Watts and Sue Tappenden Publisher: Brookers Ltd ISBN: 978-0-86472-850-0 Publication: December 2013 Price: $86.00 (GST excluded, p&h excluded) Pages: 436 Format: Paperback Content The authors are University of Waikato law lecturers. They have aimed to provide a conceptual view of the law of equity, trusts and succession which ... More about New Book: Equity, Trusts and Succession.
General Editor: Nicola Peart Authors: Margaret Briggs, Jane Hunter, Leona McWilliam, Jacinda Rennie, Stephen van Bohemen Publisher: Brookers Ltd ISBN: 978-0-864728-45-6 Publication: December 2013 Price: $120.00 (GST and p&h excluded) Pages: 727 Format: Paperback and e-book Content The bulk of the book consists of the Property (Relationships) Act 1976, the ... More about New Book: Relationship Property & Adult Maintenance: Acts & Analysis.
Author: Anna Sandiford Publisher: Brookers Ltd ISBN: 978-0-864728-41-8 Publication: December 2013 Price: $88.20 (GST excluded, p&h excluded) Pages: 385 Format: Paperback and e-book Content Dr Anna Sandiford is a director of The Forensic Group Ltd, an independent forensic science consultancy and has appeared as an expert witness since 1998. The ... More about New Book: Forensic Science and the Law: A Guide for Police, Lawyers and Expert Witnesses.
by Susan Barker, Michael Gousmett and Ken Lord Reviewed by Sarah-Jane Weir* An up to date and practical guide such as The Law and Practice of Charities in New Zealand is a welcome addition to the reference materials available to lawyers and others involved in the charitable sector. The authors' ... More about Book Review: The Law and Practice of Charities in New Zealand.
by Sir Geoffrey Palmer Reviewed by Geoff Adlam* It is hard to find anyone who has been more influential in as many different parts of our justice system as Sir Geoffrey Palmer ‒ Attorney-General, Minister of Justice, Law Commission President, law professor, prolific legal author, co-founder of a law firm, ... More about Book Review: Reform: A Memoir.
Author: Andrew Geddis Publisher: LexisNexis NZ Ltd ISBN: 978-1-927183-75-5 Publication: December 2013 Price: $160.00 (GST included, p&h excluded) Pages: 343 Format: Paperback and e-book Content Otago University law professor Andrew Geddis looks at New Zealand’s electoral system from a legal-procedural perspective. He says his intention is an attempt “to drag ... More about New Book: Electoral Law in New Zealand: Practice and Policy, 2nd Edition.
Managing Editor: Michael Woolf Publisher: The Production House Ltd ISSN: 1179-2930 Publication: November 2013 Price: $21.70 (GST included, p&h included) Pages: 48 Format: Paperback Content Publisher Michael Woolf has produced the latest edition of his handy guide to charities. First published in 1975, this is the 38th edition. As always ... More about New Book: NZ Charity and Legal Gazette 2013.
Authors: GW Hinde, DW McMorland, NR Campbell QC, Peter Twist, Jody L Foster, Thomas Gibbons, Struan Scott Publisher: LexisNexis NZ Ltd ISBN: 978-1-927183-87-8 Publication: December 2013 Price: $150.00 (GST included, p&h excluded) Pages: 1382 Format: Paperback and e-book Content The target market is law students and the work is an ... More about New Book: Principles of Real Property Law, 2nd Edition.
Author: Doug Tennent Publisher: LexisNexis NZ Ltd ISBN: 978-1-927227-14-5 Publication: November 2013 Price: $167.00 (GST incl, p&h excl) Pages: 601 Format: Paperback and e-book Content The Immigration Act 2009 has now been in force for three years and the Immigration and Protection Tribunal has made a significant number of decisions. ... More about New Book: Immigration and Refugee Law, 2nd Edition.
Author: DW McMorland Publisher: LexisNexis NZ Ltd ISBN: 978-1-937183-69-4 Publication: October 2013 Price: $190.00 (GST incl, p&h excl) Pages: 280 Format: Paperback and e-book Content The content has been taken from the looseleaf Hinde, McMorland and Sim, Land Law in New Zealand. Dr McMorland’s focus is on providing an up-to-date ... More about New Book: McMorland on Easements, Covenants and Licences, 2nd Edition.
Compiled and edited by Richard Benton, Alex Frame & Paul Meredith Reviewed by Geoff Adlam* This is a beautiful book, hard bound with an attractive cover design and its well-laid out pages illustrated with colour and black and white photos and drawings. It is everything a compendium should be: a ... More about Book Review: Te Mātāpunenga: A Compendium of References to the Concepts and Institutions of Māori Customary Law.
Author: Richard Boast Publisher: Brookers Ltd ISBN: 978-0-864727-65-7 Publication: October 2013 Recommended Price: $228.00 (GST and p&h excl) Pages: 1407 Format: Hardback Content This contains over 100 principal cases of the Native Land Court decided between 1862 and 1887 and from all over the country. Each case contains the full ... More about New Book: The Native Land Court 1862-1887: A Historical Study, Cases and Commentary.
Editors: John Dawson and Kris Gledhill Publisher: Victoria University Press ISBN: 978-0-864739-04-9 Publication: November 2013 Recommended Price: $50.00 (GST incl, p&h excl) Pages: 399 Format: Paperback Content This collection of essays is intended to give a composite portrait of the Mental Health (Compulsory Assessment and Treatment) Act 1992 on its ... More about New Book: New Zealand's Mental Health Act in Practice.
by Ross Carter, Jason McHerron and Ryan Malone Reviewed by Sir Geoffrey Palmer QC* A significant segment of New Zealand public law revolves around subordinate legislation. Whether the particular instruments are regulations, “deemed regulations”, orders-in-council or by-laws, their legal effect can be vital to the interests of clients and a ... More about Book Review: Subordinate Legislation in New Zealand.
by Tim Donoghue Reviewed by Geoff Adlam* The cover picture on Tim Donoghue’s biography of Malaysian lawyer Karpal Singh is well chosen. He faces the camera with a proud confidence, still ready to take on any battle in the courts or in his country’s parliament. Karpal is now aged 73. ... More about Book Review: Karpal Singh: Tiger of Jelutong.
Company and Securities Law in New Zealand, 2nd Edition General Editors John Farrar and Susan Watson Reviewed by Shirley Quo* The Financial Markets Conduct Bill (FMC Bill) passed its third reading on 28 August 2013 as a result of a comprehensive review of securities law. It replaces several Acts, including ... More about Book Review: Company & Securities Law in New Zealand, 2nd Edition.
A Practical Guide to Criminal Procedure in New Zealand Author: Ian Murray Publisher: LexisNexis NZ Ltd ISBN: 978-1-927227-15-2 Publication: September 2013 Price: $161.00 (GST incl, p&h excl) Pages: 502 Format: Paperback and e-book Content This is intended to be a practical guide for anyone who works with the new criminal ... More about New Book: A Practical Guide to Criminal Procedure in New Zealand.
New Zealand Employment Law Guide 2013 by Richard Rudman Reviewed by Maria Dew* This book achieves its goal. It is an excellent “guide” to employment law. It is not designed to be a definite legal text for experienced employment lawyers. However, it is an easy-to-follow and very readable guide to ... More about Book Review: New Zealand Employment Law Guide 2013.
Tax Avoidance Law in New Zealand, 2nd Edition by James Coleman Reviewed by Maria Deligiannis* This, the second edition of James Coleman’s Tax Avoidance Law in New Zealand, is a welcome and timely update of the original version published in August 2009. The reader is brought up to date with ... More about Book Review: Tax Avoidance Law in New Zealand, 2nd edition.
Recalibrating Behaviour: Smarter Regulation in a Global World edited by Susy Frankel and Deborah Ryder Reviewed by Matthew Smith* “If we desire respect for the law”, Louis D Brandeis once wrote, “we must first make the law respectable”. The New Zealand Law Foundation’s Regulatory Reform Project can be seen in ... More about Book Review: Recalibrating Behaviour: Smarter Regulation in a Global World.
Content Marketing and Publishing Strategies for Law Firms by Jordan Furlong and Steve Matthews Reviewed by Ashley Balls* For those of us who like contents of the tin to be clearly indicated by the label, this book starts with a disadvantage. Whilst the authors and marketing professionals clearly know and ... More about Book Review: Content Marketing and Publishing Strategies for Law Firms.
Guide to Competition Law by Lindsay Hampton and Paul Scott Reviewed by John Land* The purpose of Lindsay Hampton’s book is to provide an up-to-date text on competition law. The book certainly does that in a detailed and helpful way. It takes the author’s competition law commentary in Commercial Law ... More about Book Review: Guide to Competition Law.
Advocacy by Anthony Willy and James Rapley Reviewed by Jonathan Temm* This well organised and easily read book on advocacy is a welcome addition to the New Zealand focused law library on litigation skills. There are several books on advocacy for overseas jurisdictions. The most notable in the New Zealand ... More about Book Review: Advocacy by Anthony Willy and James Rapley.
Accident Compensation Lawby Doug Tennent Reviewed by Peter Sara* Doug Tennent’s book is the latest of a handful of texts which have been generated over the years about ACC law. According to the cover, the book has a practical focus that allows practitioners to use it as a quick reference ... More about Book Review: Accident Compensation Law by Doug Tennent.
Authors: Lindsay Trotman and Debbie Wilson Publisher: LexisNexis NZ Ltd ISBN: 978-1-927149-42-3 Publication: September 2013 Price: $161.00 (GST incl, p&h excl) Pages: 378 Format: Paperback and e-book Content The authors examine 26 years of case law relating to section 9 of the Fair Trading Act 1986 and bring together the ... More about Book Published: Fair Trading - Misleading or Deceptive Conduct, 2nd Edition.
Authors: Greg Kelly and Chris Kelly Publisher: LexisNexis NZ Ltd ISBN: 978-1-927149-45-4 Publication: August 2013 Price: $170 (GST incl, p&h excl) Pages: 981 Format: Paperback and e-book Content The latest edition of this long-established treatise (first published in 1919) comes eight years after the 6th edition. The authors keep their ... More about Book published: Garrow and Kelly Law of Trusts and Trustees, 7th edition.
Authors: Ross Carter, Jason McHerron and Ryan Malone Publisher: LexisNexis NZ Ltd ISBN: 978-1-927149-59-1 Publication: August 2013 Price: $126.50 (GST incl, p&h excl) Pages: 376 Format: Paperback and e-book Content Noting that despite its “deceptive dullness” subordinate legislation is truly centre stage, the authors have produced New Zealand’s first comprehensive ... More about Book published: Subordinate Legislation in New Zealand.
Authors: Bruce Douglas, Nicky Richardson and Sarah Parsons Publisher: LexisNexis NZ Ltd ISBN: 978-1-927149-48-5 Publication: July 2013 Price: $166.75 (GST incl, p&h excl) Pages: 344 Format: Paperback and e-book Content A companion to Nevill’s Wills Drafting Handbook, this assumes the reader is familiar with the law relating to trusts. Two ... More about Book published: Nevill’s Trusts Drafting Handbook.
Authors: DW McMorland and Thomas Gibbons Publisher: LexisNexis NZ Ltd ISBN: 978-1-927227-35-0 Publication: July 2013 Price: $149.50 (GST incl, p&h excl) Pages: 409 Format: Paperback and e-book Content This is based on chapter 14 of the online and looseleaf publication Hinde McMorland and Sim, Land Law. Two-thirds of the book ... More about Book published: McMorland and Gibbons on Unit Titles and Cross Leases.
Author: Paul Sumpter Publisher: CCH New Zealand Ltd ISBN: 978-0-864759-38-2 Publication: June 2013 Price: $84.00 (excl GST and p&h) Pages: 431 Format: Paperback and e-book Content The first edition was published in 2006. The book concentrates on the most frequently encountered issues that crop up in practice and provides references ... More about Book published: Intellectual Property Law - Principles in Practice.
Author: Philip Dreadon Publisher: CCH New Zealand Ltd ISBN: 978-0-864759-97-9 Publication: June 2013 Price: $96.00 (excl GST and p&h) Pages: 137 Format: Paperback (plus CD) and e-book Content This is a guide to powers of attorney. It is written for accountants, business people and anyone wanting to give powers of ... More about Book published: The Attorney’s Handbook.
Author: Peter Devonshire Publisher: Brookers Ltd ISBN: 978-0-864728-02-9 Publication: June 2013 Price: $120 (excludes GST and p&h) Pages: 194 Format: Paperback and e-book Content In a foreword, the Hon Michael Kirby says as far as he is aware, there is no exact equivalent of this book among published legal texts. ... More about Book Published: Account of Profits.
Author: Mark von Dadelszen Publisher: LexisNexis NZ Ltd ISBN: 978-1-927183-59-5 Publication: May 2013 Price: $138.00 (incl GST, excl p&h) Pages: 310 Format: Paperback and e-book Content In his preface the author states that his increasing frustration at the lack of an up-to-date text on society law in New Zealand lay ... More about Book Published: Law of Societies, 3rd Edition.
Authors: Susan Barker, Michael Gousmett and Ken Lord Publisher: LexisNexis NZ Ltd ISBN: 978-1-927183-37-3 Publication: May 2013 Price: $149.50 (incl GST, excl p&h) Pages: 739 Format: Paperback and e-book Content This examines New Zealand charities law and provides guidance to lawyers and accountants who are involved in setting up, administering ... More about Book published: The Law and Practice of Charities in New Zealand.
Authors: Lindsay Hampton and Paul Scott Publisher: LexisNexis NZ Ltd ISBN: 978-1-927227-03-9 Publication: May 2013 Price: $92 (incl GST excl p&h) Pages: 343 Format: Paperback and e-book Content This is a revised reprint of Lindsay Hampton’s competition law commentary in the looseleaf publication Commercial Law in New Zealand. A chapter ... More about Book published: Guide to Competition Law.
Editors: Susy Frankel and Deborah Ryder Publisher: LexisNexis NZ Ltd ISBN: 978-1-927149-71-3 Publication: April 2013 Price: $166.75 (incl GST excl p&h) Pages: 618 Content An introduction and 14 essays examine the factors to be considered when policy makers are deciding whether reform of the law is desirable. This is the ... More about Book published: Recalibrating Behaviour – Smarter Regulation in a Global World.
Reviewed by Geoff Adlam* Question: “Otitapu Pa”, “itinerant aircraft”, “arguable case” and “it is necessary”. What do they have in common? Answer: They have all been legally defined, either by current New Zealand legislation or by a New Zealand court. As such they qualify for inclusion in the first New ... More about Book review: Brookers A to Z of Legal Terms.
General Editors: John Farrar and Susan Watson Authors: Lynne Taylor, Susan Watson, Shelley Griffiths, Matthew Berkahn, Lindsay Trotman, David Cooper, John Farrar, Doug Tennant Publisher: Brookers Ltd ISBN: 978-0-864727-91-6 Publication: April 2013 Price: $190.00 (excl GST and p&h) Pages: 1399 Format: Paperback and e-book Content The first edition was published ... More about Book Published: Company and Securities Law in New Zealand, 2nd Edition.
Author: Bill Patterson Publisher: LexisNexis NZ Ltd ISBN: 978-0-927227-09-1 Publication: April 2013 Price: $149.50 (GST incl, p&h excl) Pages: 436 Format: Paperback and e-book Content The third edition was published in 2004 and while the legislation has remained largely unchanged, the text considers a large number of cases which have ... More about Book Published: Law of Family Protection and Testamentary Promises, 4th Edition.
Author: James Coleman Publisher: CCH New Zealand Ltd ISBN: 978-0-864759-13-9 Publication: April 2013 Price: $110.00 (excl GST and p&h) Pages: 191 Content This examines New Zealand jurisprudence on the general anti-avoidance provision. The Ben Nevis decision and others following it are considered in detail, with discussion of the tests for ... More about Book published: Tax Avoidance Law in New Zealand, 2nd Edition.
By Terry Carson Reviewed by Iain Hutcheson* This delightful photographic and written record of old North Island courthouses might easily be considered a “coffee table” acquisition. However, that would bely its considerable value as an historical resource collating not only the history of the particular buildings appearing within its covers, ... More about Book Review: Built for Justice.
Advocacy Authors: Anthony Willy and James Rapley Publisher: Brookers Ltd ISBN: 978-0-864727-77-8 Publication: March 2013 Price: $88 (excl GST and p&h) Pages: 286 Content Two experienced advocates present a practical guide aimed at all advocates both in and out of the courtroom. The book first examines the personal qualities and ... More about Book Published: Advocacy.
Authors: Matthew Casey QC, Christopher Corry, John Faire, Sally Fitzgerald, Philip McCabe, Graham Taylor, Peter Twist Publisher: LexisNexis NZ Ltd ISBN: 978-1-927183-66-3 Publication: March 2013 Price: $194.35 (incl GST excl p&h) Pages: 1126 (Plus CD) Content This brings together all the High Court Rules, with commentary. The book is designed ... More about Book published: New Zealand Procedure Manual: High Court, 2nd Edition.
Authors: Peter Whiteside and Anthony Willy Publisher: LexisNexis NZ Ltd ISBN: 978-1-927227-00-8 Publication: March 2013 Price: $149.50 (incl GST excl p&h) Pages: 1203 (Plus CD) Content The book presents an up-to-date consolidation of the District Courts Act 1947 and District Courts Rules 2009, with commentary. The authors aim is to ... More about Book Published: New Zealand Procedure Manual: District Court, 2nd Edition.
Author: Doug Tennent Publisher: LexisNexis NZ Ltd ISBN: 978-1-927183-30-4 Publication: February 2013 Price: $172.50 (GST incl, p&h excl) Pages: 395 Content This book undertakes a critical analysis of New Zealand’s accident compensation scheme. Starting with an outline of the history of the scheme, the author then gives a detailed examination ... More about Book Published: Accident Compensation Law.
Author: Richard Rudman Publisher: CCH New Zealand Ltd ISBN: 978-0-864759-44-3 ISSN: 1176-9491 Publication: January 2013 Price: $78 (GST and p&h excl) Pages: 505 Content HR and employment relations consultant Richard Rudman’s annual handbook on New Zealand employment law states the law as at 1 January 2013. Changes that the Government ... More about Book Published: New Zealand Employment Law Guide 2013.
By James O’Donovan Reviewed by Jamie Grant* Courtroom Procedure is targeted at practitioners with little or no courtroom experience and it succeeds admirably at providing practical guidance as well as a comprehensive description of the minutiae of formalities encountered in New Zealand’s courts. Now on to its fourth edition, it ... More about Book Review: Courtroom Procedure in New Zealand: A Practitioner’s Survival Kit, 4th Edition.
Edited by Karen Martyn Reviewed by Christine Grice* Thisis a compact book which delivers what it promises. It is a practical guide for directors which keeps theory to a minimum. It is a hands-on “how to” guide, complete with forms and checklists which are also available on a CD Rom ... More about Corporate Governance – A Practical Handbook.
By Neil Campbell Reviewed by John Greenwood* Neil Campbell’s hardcopy version, adopted from Chapter 10 of the looseleaf and online service of Hinde McMorland & Sim Land Law New Zealand, is a quick tool for property lawyers and those involved with litigation concerning caveats. The idea of extracting a hardcopy ... More about Campbell on Caveats.
Author: Nicky Richardson Publisher: LexisNexis NZ Ltd ISBN: 978-1-927183-77-9 Publication: January 2013 Price: $149.50 (incl GST excl p&h) Pages: 620 Content The author’s intention is to continue the approach of the earlier edition authors Julie Maxton and Philip Nevill by providing a concise guide to the law of trusts, wills ... More about Book Published: Nevill’s Law of Trusts, Wills and Administration, 11th Edition.
Editors: Mark Henaghan and Bill Atkin Publisher: LexisNexis NZ Ltd ISBN: 978-1-927149-55-3 Publication: January 2013 Price: $149.50 (incl GST excl p&h) Pages: 423 Content The book aims to consider family law as a whole from the definitions of “family” to context, goals, aspirations and judicial outcomes. The third edition was ... More about Book Published: Family Law Policy in New Zealand, 4th Edition.
Author: Linda Widdup Publisher: LexisNexis NZ Ltd ISBN: 978-1-927183-28-1 Publication: January 2013 Price: $149.50 (incl GST excl p&h) Pages: 437 Content The last edition was published in 2000. The author’s aim is to give a conceptual overview of the PPSA and from this to provide a practical guide to the ... More about Book Published: Personal Property Securities Act: A Conceptual Approach, 3rd edition.
By David Grinlinton Reviewed by Amanda Spratt* When I was a student in Wellington, I left a pot on the stove for long enough that the soldering melted and ran, like drops of mercury, all over the kitchen linoleum. The molten metal burnt through to the floorboards (though thankfully missing ... More about Book Review: Residential Tenancies: The Law and Practice, 4th Edition.
By Richard Rudman Reviewed by Philip Bartlett* Over the past 20 years or so, since the enactment of the Employment Contracts Act 1991, employment law has been one of the big growth areas in legal practice. Capitalising on this, CCH New Zealand Ltd and the other major legal publishing houses ... More about New Zealand Employment Law Guide, 2012 Edition.
Authors: Craig Elliffe and Emma Marr Publisher: LexisNexis NZ Ltd ISBN: 978-1-927183-54-0 Publication: November 2012 Price: $49.45 (incl GST excl p&h) Pages: 148 Content The target readership is “busy lawyers, accountants, and other tax professionals”. Containing summaries of 127 important New Zealand tax cases and international decision, the book is ... More about Book Published: LexisNexis Key Cases: Tax.
Editor: Don Mathieson QC Authors: Grant Burston, Paul Michalik and Bernard Robertson Publisher: LexisNexis NZ Ltd ISBN: 978-1-927183-89-2 Publication: November 2012 Price: $74.75 (incl GST excl p&h) Pages: 726 Content This is the ninth New Zealand edition of an English work first published in 1958 by Sir Rupert Cross. The ... More about Book Published: Cross on Evidence, 9th Edition.
Author: Liesle Theron Publisher: LexisNexis NZ Ltd ISBN: 978-1-927183-44-1 Publication: October 2012 Price: $92 (incl GST, excl p&h) Pages: 199 Content The author comments that recent activity in the area of company liquidation has provided a good opportunity for a comprehensive and up-to-date New Zealand commentary. The intention is to ... More about Book Published: Guide to Company Liquidation.
By Tracey Walker Reviewed by Steven Price* This is a book that lives up to its subtitle. It offers a succinct and useful account of the various laws affecting corporate reputation management in New Zealand, together with some savvy guidance on how to navigate them. It is explicitly aimed at ... More about Book Review: Reputation Matters: A Practical Guide to Managing Reputation Risk.
By Alastair McKenzie Reviewed by Casey Plunket* The preface to this book observes that while GST began life as a straightforward legislative regime, after 27 years the legislation is now swollen by special rules and other amendments. The Act, in other words, has passed from a svelte youth into a ... More about Book Review: GST – A Practical Guide (9th edition).
Courtroom Procedure in New Zealand: A Practitioner’s Survival Kit Author: James O’Donovan Publisher: CCH New Zealand Ltd ISBN: 978-0-864759-86-3 Publication: September 2012 Price: $80.50 (GST incl, p&h excl) Pages: 127 Content The author shares the benefit of his long experience as both counsel and judge in New Zealand courtrooms. The ... More about Book Published – Courtroom Procedure in New Zealand: A Practitioner’s Survival Kit, 4th edition.
Author: Neil Campbell Publisher: LexisNexis NZ Ltd ISBN: 978-1-927183-42-7 Publication: September 2012 Price: $92 (incl GST excl p&h) Pages: 131 Content A succinct guidebook on the law relating to caveats, this is a hardcopy version of Chapter 10 of the looseleaf work Hinde McMorland & Sim Land Law in New ... More about Campbell on Caveats.
By Kirsten Hodgson Reviewed by Geoff Adlam* Books which look at the latest international trends or developments from a New Zealand perspective are relatively rare. The appearance of Kirsten Hodgson’s guide to LinkedIn, with a substantial New Zealand flavour, is therefore particularly welcome. It will more than adequately meet the ... More about Book Review: LinkedIn for Lawyers: Connect, Engage and Grow your Business.
Annual reports filed with the Companies Office during June by the three multinational legal and professional information publishers operating in New Zealand show they had a combined after-tax profit of $9.522 million in the 2011 calendar year. This came from total revenue of $64.591 million. While combined after-tax profits rose ... More about Legal publishers’ profit $9.5 million in 2011.
by John Katz QC Reviewed by Helen Dervan* For Frederic Maitland, in the early twentieth century, the greatest and most distinctive achievement in the field of jurisprudence was the development of the trust idea (FW Maitland, Collected Papers, III, 272). For Lord Denning, in the late twentieth century, the “greatest ... More about Book Review: Search Orders.
By Mai Chen Reviewed by Matthew Smith* Mai Chen’s Public Law Toolbox is likely to find a prominent place on your bookshelf. Reviewers of the book fairly and variously refer to it as a “unique” work which “lifts the veil” on how our democratic institutions work (Sir Geoffrey Palmer); “demystifying ... More about Book Review: Public Law Toolbox: Solving Problems with Government.
Editor-in-chief Derek Nolan Reviewed by Catherine Iorns Magallanes* The third edition of Environmental and Resource Management Law was published in 2005 and has been well regarded as the authoritative text on the area and well used as a practitioners’ handbook. Since then, an online edition was published in 2008 which ... More about Book Review: Environmental and Resource Management Law, 4th Edition.
By Tomas Kennedy-Grant QC Reviewed by John Green* This book is a truly impressive publication in every respect. It comprises 958 pages. The text is set out in 31 chapters. The full table of contents runs to 40 pages and there is a summary of contents for ease of reference. ... More about Book Review: Kennedy-Grant on Construction Law, 2nd Edition.
Consulting Editor Sir Peter Blanchard Reviewed by Barry Allan* This book is inspired by a concern that many lawyers can readily identify a cause of action but may have difficulty when it comes to establishing the remedies which might be available. Indeed, for many clients, the precise nature of the ... More about Book Review: Civil Remedies in New Zealand, 2nd Edition .
LinkedIn for Lawyers: connect, engage and grow your business Author: Kirsten Hodgson Publisher: LexisNexis NZ Ltd ISBN: 978-1-927183-41-0 Publication: August 2012 Price: $51.80 (incl GST excl p&h) Pages: 176 Content The author says she started writing this guide when a couple of lawyers asked her how they could use LinkedIn, ... More about Book Published: LinkedIn for Lawyers: connect, engage and grow your business.
Reputation Matters. A Practical Legal Guide to Managing Reputation Risk Author: Tracey Walker Publisher: CCH New Zealand Ltd ISBN: 978-0-864759-91-7 Publication: August 2012 Price: $110.00 (excl GST and p&h) Pages: 234 Content This aims to give practical guidance to lawyers on the law relating to corporate communications. Areas covered include ... More about Book Published: Reputation Matters. A Practical Legal Guide for Managing Reputation Risk.
Author: David Grinlinton Publisher: LexisNexis NZ Ltd ISBN: 978-1-877511-00-4 Publication: June 2012 Price: $92.00 (includes GST, excludes postage and handling) Pages: 328 Format: Paperback. The Author: David Grinlinton is an Associate Professor of Law at the University of Auckland. Content This updates the third edition, which was published in 1998. ... More about Book Published: Residential Tenancies: The Law and Practice, 4th edition.
Author: Alastair McKenzie Publisher: CCH New Zealand ISBN: 978-0-864759-35-1 Publication: May 2012 Price: $110.00 (excludes GST and postage and handling) Pages: 473 Content Lawyer and tax expert Alastair McKenzie has authored every edition of this comprehensive guide to New Zealand’s GST system. As well as providing an overview of the ... More about Book Published: GST – A Practical Guide, 9th edition.
Author: Linda Pattullo Publisher: CCH New Zealand ISBN: 978-0-864759-76-4 Publication: May 2012 Price: $80.00 (excludes GST and postage and handling) Pages: 265 Content This is a compilation of questions asked by subscribers to CCH’s Question and Answer Service. As such they cover practical inquiries in all areas of employment law. ... More about Book Published: Top 100 Questions and Answers on Employment Law.
Reviewed by Robert Fisher QC* Williams and Kawharu (“W&K”) is a major arrival on the local arbitration scene. Its 1245 pages make it easily the most comprehensive hardcopy text on the subject in New Zealand. At 393 pages Anthony Willy’s Arbitration (Thomson Reuters 2010) is necessarily more concise. Green & ... More about Book Review: Williams & Kawharu on Arbitration.
Williams and Kawharu on Arbitration by David Williams QC and Amokura Kawharu and published by LexisNexis has won the JF Northey Memorial Book Award 2011. The $2,000 prize was awarded by the Legal Research Foundation for the best legal monograph or text by a New Zealand author published between 1 ... More about Winners of JF Northey Memorial Book Award 2011.
By Steve Alexander et al Reviewed by Matthew Smith* This book is both important and timely. It concerns the “systemic failure, occurring at all levels within the building industry" (Sunset Terraces [2010] 3 NZLR 486 at [208] per Arnold J), which contributed to the leaky building crisis Sir David Baragwanath ... More about Book Review: The Leaky Buildings Crisis.
By John Burrows, Jeremy Finn and Stephen Todd Reviewed by Matthew Barber* The contract text of Professors Burrows, Finn and Todd is well-established in the New Zealand legal canon. It is the only text on the general principles and rules of contract law in New Zealand intended for a practitioner ... More about Book Review: Law of Contract in New Zealand, 4th edition.
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 we’re ... 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, ... 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 Master ... 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 New ... 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 the ... 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 ... 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 ... 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 vote at ... 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 out ... 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 re-affirms ... 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 with government and ... 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 ... 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, excludes ... 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.
Reviewed by Sir Geoffrey Palmer Competing theories of political economy have dogged New Zealand law from the beginning. The Monopoly Prevention Act 1908, the Commercial Trusts Act 1910 and the Board of Trade Act 1919 were all legislative efforts designed to circumscribe the excesses of capitalism and prevent concentrations of ... More about Book Review: Learning from the Past, Adapting for the Future: Regulatory Reform in New Zealand.
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 ... 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 ... 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 The ... 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 ... 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 ... 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 ... 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 of ... 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 ... 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 ... 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 ... 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 ... More about Sainsbury Logan & Williams: Lawyers since 1875.
Editor: Michael WoolfPublisher: No longer published.ISSN: 1179-2930Publication: October 2011Price: Free to the legal professionPages: 52Contents: 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 each of the listed ... 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 ... 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 ... 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 ... 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 ... 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 ... 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 people ... 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, ... 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 ... 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 ... 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 ... 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 ... 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 by ... 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 ... 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. ... 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 ... 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 Vince Siemer ... 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 ... 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 ... 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 ... 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. ... 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 ... 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 ... 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 ... 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 ... 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 described ... 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 ... 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 ... 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 ... 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 history ... More about Taxation without Representation.