Auckland District Law Society Library & Research Centre – this is a very good site for current legal events via the electronic “whiteboard”, e.g. recent “hot” cases, the appearance of a group of New Zealand legal resources on WORLDLII (selective and all available elsewhere, but always conveniently brought together). The New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade`s portal is dedicated to providing information on New Zealand`s international relations. This website contains useful information on New Zealand`s international relations, travel and trade situation – at the time of writing this report, there was up-to-date information on SARS, New Zealand`s recent offer for the GATS and the latest trade statistics. One of its most valuable benefits doesn`t immediately appear on the home page, but a search of the website will uncover MFAT`s contract registry (you can find this page by clicking on Site Map on the home page and then selecting “legal” under International Relations. Here on the right side, you will find the contracts and information about them.) This register lists all contractual measures taken since 2000, including bilateral and multilateral agreements. There is also a consolidated list of New Zealand`s 1996 treaties, which is only available in printed form, leaving a painful gap between 1996 and 2000. Margaret Greville is a law librarian at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand. She holds a Master`s degree (Honours) and an LLB from the University of Auckland (NZ).
She has worked as a law librarian for over 30 years, in law firms (large and small), in two university law libraries and in a court library – all in New Zealand and Australia. Most of the time was spent on science. She has advocated for teaching legal research skills to law students and has also taught legal practitioners and non-legal librarians. She was instrumental in promoting the creation of a legal library module at a New Zealand library school. She is the lead author of Legal Research and Writing in New Zealand, 2nd ed., by Margaret Greville, Scott Davidson and Richard Scragg, Wellington NZ, LexisNexis (NZ) 2004. She has been an active member of the NZLLG for 30 years. She has written and spoken at conferences and seminars, most recently at the Joint Study Institute (JSI, Sydney, 2004) and the New Zealand Law Librarians` Symposium, Auckland, 2004. The New Zealand judicial system is part of our system of government. It consists of a number of institutions, groups of individuals and individuals who develop, implement and enforce the law.
Since this subject is taught, it is mainly limited to the study of trusts, wills and the administration of estates, and these subjects have related legislation. But jurisdiction is much broader than that, including fair remedies and other judicial laws that are found in most areas of law. Although the treaty was never incorporated into New Zealand local law,[3] its provisions had already been transposed into the Act in the Land Claims Ordinance 1841 and the Native Rights Act 1865. [4] However, in Wi Parata v. Bishop of Wellington in 1877, Justice Prendergast held that the treaty was a “mere nullity” with respect to the transfer of Maori sovereignty to the United Kingdom. [5] This remained the legal orthodoxy at least until the 1970s. [6] Maori have since argued that Prendergast`s decision, and the laws based on it later, were a politically convenient and deliberate ploy to legitimize the confiscation of Maori land and other resources. [7] In most areas of New Zealand legal information, there is an unstoppable trend towards the Internet and strong competition among publishers in this area.
Unfortunately, this does not always translate into free sources of primary or secondary legal information. There is no “silver bullet” – not a single website where you can expect to get free legal information about New Zealand. There is free information available, but overall, New Zealand may have embraced the “user pays” philosophy with a little too much enthusiasm in this regard. The Courts homepage is a useful website for accessing information on the work of different parts of the judicial system, with useful lists and links to courts under its jurisdiction. It should be recalled that not all courts are administered by the Courts Department; However, there are links to these from this site. The website also contains information on the work of the courts, as well as publications for litigants. Local Government Online (LGOL) was founded in September 1997 at the joint initiative of the Society of Local Government Managers (SOLGM) and the Association of Local Government Information Management (ALGIM). The Website is jointly owned by SOLGM & ALGIM and provides Internet-related services to the local government sector. Deep buried (Services for Councils > Resource Library > Management & Governance > Law) is a site with links to (rather random) legal resources related to local governments, some free, but mostly subscription or paid. A link is to “Newsletter (3): Local Government Act 2002 & Local Government (Rating) Act 2002, and this useful document is actually hanging on the Home Office website: This understanding allows you to apply legal principles to a particular problem, thereby solving the legal aspects of business problems. The New Zealand legal system is heavily based on English law and remains similar in many respects. As in all common law countries, English law is organized around the doctrines of precedent (how cases should be decided equally) and stare decisis.
[22] [23] These principles dictate that lower courts must follow the decisions of higher courts in the judicial hierarchy. This promotes consistency in decision-making. [22] This is a subject that is enthusiastically addressed by authors in the legal and commercial fields. A rough search on Te Puna on “e-commerce” gets so many results that the search engine blames you for searching so clumsily.