New Zealand Law Style Guide

 The new nationwide style is available online from the New Zealand Law Foundation website

The New Zealand Law Style Guide is here

The first national legal style and citation guide  for New Zealand has been published.  It is available in the Law library at the call number KUQ48.M45

Christmas holiday closure

The Library will close for the Christmas holiday on Friday 18 December 2009 and will reopen on Tuesday 5 January 2010

Summer Hours Start on Saturday 7 November

See the Library Hours page for details

Law Student Lab in the Library is moving soon

The Law Student Lab in the library will be moving sometime after exams.  Dates to be announced.

LexisNexis Service Outage this coming Sunday

LexisNexis have advised us of a service outage on Sunday, 1 November from 2pm to 11pm. During this time, you will not be able to access the LexisNexis platform, as maintenance is needed to accommodate for the time change in the USA. We apologize for any inconvenience caused.

Legal Database Workouts for 15th-25 Sep

Tues  15th  - 10am

Weds 16th  - 2.10pm

Thurs 17th -  9am

 Mon  21st  - 11am

Weds  23rd  - 4pm

Friday 25 - 10am

Legal Database Workouts for the week starting the 7th of September

Monday 7th September: 11am-11.50

Wednesday 9 September 4.10pm-5

Friday 11 September 10am-10.50

More Database workouts

Tutorials are being held in the Law EDA next to the old law information desk on level 4.

Wednesday 19th August - 4.10pm

Friday 21st August - 10am

More database workout tuts 11-13 August

Tutorials in Law EDA near old information desk on level 4.

Tues 11 Aug 10.1050am

Weds 12 Aug 4.10-5pm

Thurs 13 Aug  9-9.50am

Database Searching Skills Refreshers

The 'database workouts' are running over the weeks beginning 27th July and 3rd August.

The  times are:

Tues 28 July 10.00-10.50, Weds 28 July 2.10-3.00, Thurs 29 July 9.00-9.50

Tues 4 August 3.10-4.00, Weds 5 Aug 10.00-10.50, Thurs 6 Aug 2.10-3.00

The Law Library Office and Information Desk have moved

We are now located at the other end of  Level 4 next to the Information Commons. Law Library Quick Reference and the new journals/books display will soon be moving near to our new location.

Shattering Statutes now online.

These PDF versions of the annual volumes from 1888-1894 indicate how the statutes were orginally passed and do not reflect subsequent repeals/amendments.

We now have access to the HeinOnline database

This database is available through the library's databases page. The individual journals within the database will be linked through the library catalogue in the next month or so. HeinOnline journals are also searchable on Google Scholar.

Legal Research Skills Wiki

 The wiki contains information about and demonstrations of legal research resources.

Skype and Virtual Chat now available.

Our Skype id is waikatolawlibrary and you can also contact us for virtual chat using the link from the Law Library homepage. We are available 8.30-6 Monday-Thursday and 8.30-5 on Friday.

English Reports 1220-1867 are now available online

They can be accessed from  CommonLII and also HeinOnline.

Audiovisual Library of International Law

An interesting site full of achived footage, lectures and research material. Click here to access. 

Extra Opening Hours over exam period

The Library will be until open until 10pm on Sunday the 9th of November.

LexisNexis Planned Outage

From 6pm on Sunday 2 November for at least 6 hours.

This outage is to accommodate for the Daylight Saving Time change in the United States. During this time, LexisNexis NZ, LexisNexis AU, Nexis.com, Lexis.com and LexisNexis Publisher will not be accessible due to the maintenance work. LexisNexis apologises for any inconvenience caused.

Good Luck for Exams

Exam time is upon us, the Law Library hopes your exams all go well.

Reminder

Just a reminder that you can view and subscrbe to feeds of  Law material here

UNICEF Newsmap shows children's rights articles by location

Click here to access. 

Newsmap is a Google map with links to video and news articles about children's rights all over the globe.  Click on a location to view articles about that area.

LexisNexisNZ Training on 13th August

The LexisNexis trainer is giving a session in the Law Library Lab at 12 noon on Wednesday 13th August. All welcome. 

Mooting Drop-in Sessions

See the Law Library tutorials page for upcoming Moot research drop-in Sessions.

Parliamentary website alerts

To be alerted about new updates on the Parliamentary website click here

Collection Development Policies

are now available online. Click here for more.

New Legislation Feed

Legislation.govt.nz has a feed for legislation updates here. Updates are added daily at 3am.

Budget speech

Here is the full budget speech for 2008.

Trial Database - until 7th of June

Human Rights Documents Online

Human Rights Documents Online (HRDO) will ultimately contain all human rights documents collected by the Human Rights Internet (HRI) in Ottawa in Canada since 1980. These documents emanate from 417 non-governmental human rights organisations (NGOs) worldwide, some of which have a universal scope, whilst others focus on the attainment of human rights in a specific area of the world.

Westlaw International is here!!

Available via the Law databases page.

Library Group Room Bookings

Group Rooms can now be booked online

New Electronic Resource

The Rethinking Crime and Punishment Newsletter

Discusses current and topical issues surrounding crime and punishment.

Police use wiki to create law

NZ police have launched a wiki open to anyone wanting to edit and make suggestions to the Police Act as part of a wider revamp. New Zealand's current Police Act is nearly 50 years old. In March 2006 a review was undertaken and The Police Act Wiki has been launched to allow people to suggest wording for the new Policing Act. It uses similar wiki technology to the popular user-generated site Wikipedia. The wiki version of the Policing Act will be viewed by New Zealand parliamentarians, before an official bill is introduced into Parliament."

Australia & New Zealand Law & History e-journal

This online journal examines the intersections between law and history in Australia and New Zealand.  Click here to access or use the online catalogue.

Database Bootcamps

This week's tutorials are on the Lexis, LexisNexis NZ and CCH databases

Lexis Tues 14 Aug: 2.10 - 3.0 LexisNexis NZ Wed 15 Aug: 3.10 - 4.0  CCH Thurs 16 Aug: 10.0 - 10.50

Database Boot Camp

Help sessions for finding legislation, cases and journal articles.

Legislation: Tuesday 31 July 11-11.50am

Case Law: Wednesday 1 August 2.10-3.00pm

 Journal articles: Thursday 2nd 3.10-4.00pm

Welcome to the new look Library web pages!

Launched 19 July 2007

New Legal Database

You can now access the International Commission of Jurists Database through the Databases page

2007 Budget

Here

New additions to LexisNexisNZ database

The following have been added to the LexisNexisNZ Database: Hinde McMorland & Sim. Land Law; Immigration Practitioners Bulletin; Case Citator; Commercial Law in New Zealand; Ford's Principles of Corporations Law.  We are organising for these to be linked from the online catalogue (as this is often the easiest way to locate them) as well as through the Library Link Databases list but they may not show up there for a week or so.

Report of the Commision of Inquiry into Police Conduct

 Read the Report

Database Trial ISCTRC

The library has a 6 month trial of the following database: International Security & Counter-Terrorism Reference Center.

ISCTRC is unique in the information industry as the only resource to aggregate expert content relating to terrorism, security and counter-terrorism from a vast array of publishers and sources. As an Open Source database, 100's of scholarly (peer-reviewed) journals are combined with country reports, risk analysis reports, books/monographs, magazines, news feeds, blogs, FAQs, primary source documents, trade journals, defence industry reports and much more.

This database is accessible through EBSCO Megafile.
Please try this database and pass your comments onto library staff.

Maori Land Court Minute Books Index

This is now available via Librarylink Databases.

We have subscribed to this database from Knowledge-Basket which provides easy and quick access to over 1100 minute books between 1865 and 1910, from the Taitokerau, Waikato-Maniapoto, Tairawhiti, Waiariki, Aotea, Takitimu, and Waipounamu Maori Land Court Districts.

New Database - World Trade Law

Provides comprehensive coverage of world trade law including searchable full-text of GATT/WTO/NAFTA agreements, awards and decisions, and dispute settlement commentaries. It can be accessed via the Law section of LibraryLink Databases

CommonLII database

The Australasian Legal Information Institute (AustLII) would like to announce the launch of the Commonwealth Legal Information Institute (CommonLII), located Like other LIIs, CommonLII is a free access and non-profit facility. CommonLII already allows browsing and searching of 464 databases from 50 Commonwealth and common law countries and territories. Most of these databases are located on existing LIIs in Commonwealth countries but CommonLII contains 44 databases from 28 additional countries.

Searchable index of legal essays

Now added to LibraryLink databases

A searchable index of legal essays from several English language jurisdictions. Index to the Common Law FestschriftenJointly produced by the University of Auckland and the Law Foundation of New Zealand - Te Manatu a Ture o Aotearoa.

"The Index to Common Law Festschriften is the culmination of a three-year project funded by the Law Foundation and undertaken by a small team at the University of Auckland Library and Law School under the direction of Professor Mike Taggart. This is the first index of contributions to common law Festschriften and fills a serious bibliographic gap in the literature of the common law.

There are some 270 common law Festschriften indexed on this database, amounting to over 4,500 chapter entries. In addition, there are more than a thousand entries of English language contributions to predominantly foreign language, non-common law Festschriften from Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden. "

Staff Changes in the Law Library

From August there will be a few staff changes in the Law Librar. From August Fiona Corcoran will be the Acting Law Librarian while Kay Young is the Library's Acting Information Services Manager. We will also be losing our Law Library Computer Consultant James Brunskill who will be relocating to the Library Computer Operations Group.

Butterworth's databases no longer available

From the end of April 2005, the Butterworth's databases are being replaced with the new LexisNexisNZ database. Please see Law library staff if you require help using this new database.

Search Hansard

It is now possible to search the full text of Hansard since 1987.

See the link from LibraryLink databases or click here

Anzac Day

The Law Library will be closed on Anzac Day (Monday 25 April)

Legal Method Database Assignment

This is now available here

LexisNexisNZ training

Claire Dunsmuir: LexisNexis trainer will be offering an introduction to LexisNexis NZ onWednesday 23 March.

LexisNexis NZ is the new interface for Butterworths, offering full text access to NZ statutes, case law (including NZLR) and the Laws of NZ (a legal encyclopedia). All welcome. Come along at the following times:

Wednesday 23 March 10.00am Law Library Computing lab

Wednesday 23 March 11.00am
Law Library Electronic Database Area (beside Law Library Information Desk)

Wednesday 23 March 1.00pm Law Library Computing lab

Legal Method students

Remember to sign up for database tutorial times.

These are compulsory and run for 8 sessions. They start in the week of 14 March in the Law Library Computer lab. See here for more details

Law Library tours

Tours of the Law Library (for students not already doing a tour in their Legal Method stream) will take place every day at 2.10pm for the next two weeks (until March 18). Just gather at the Law Library Information Desk.

New computer lab

The new Law Library computer lab is now open!

Welcome back!

We are looking forward to seeing you all again and welcoming our new students!

Law Library Lab Upgrade

The Law Library has begun renovations to the Law Library Lab!
Law Students will be able to benefit from the upgraded space in A semester 2005.