New Zealand Law

Overview of the New Zealand legal system

An Introduction to New Zealand law and sources of legal information - by Margaret Greville, Law Librarian at the University of Canterbury and principal author of a book on New Zealand legal research
New Zealand legal system - from the Ministry of Justice
McGee, David, Parliamentary Practice in New Zealand, 3rd ed., Dunmore Publishing Limited, Wellington, 2005

Treaty of Waitangi - full text of the Māori and English versions, with some history and images
Waitangi Tribunal Te Rōpū Whakamana i te Tiriti o Waitangi
Waitangi Tribunal Reports Database - a searchable database with the full text of Tribunal reports

Hansard Parliamentary debates - searchable via the Parliamentary website, and browsable via The Knowledge Basket
New Zealand legislation:
- Current legislation including amendments: New Zealand Legislation and NZLII
- New Zealand Statutes As Enacted (NZLII) - all New Zealand Acts in their original form, 1841 to 2007
- The Shattering Statutes collection contains facsimiles of all NZ Acts enacted between 1888 and 1894 in their original form
Parliamentary Bills are available on both New Zealand Legislation and NZLII
The Parliamentary site's home page includes daily updates in its Quick Links section on the left, including recent Debates and Progress of legislation - see link to the PDF document under Downloads, on the right.

Courts of New Zealand Ngā Kōti o Aotearoa site contains plenty of sources including latest updates of very recent court decisions (on the right of the first screen), decisions of public interest and case summaries, along with Supreme Court transcripts, decisions and reserved decisions, more ...
Directory of Decisions - University of Waikato Law Library
Judicial decisions online - Ministry of Justice
New Zealand cases from NZLII
NZ's court structure explained, and in diagram format
Privy Council decisions

Information about the the 4 main courts - Supreme Court, Court of Appeal, District Courts and High Court, as well as specialised courts and tribunals, is available from the Courts of New Zealand Ngā Kōti o Aotearoa site. There is also a page dedicated to the daily programme of Court business - Supreme and High Courts, and Court of Appeal.
Ministry of Justice Tāhū o te Ture

LawAccess - catalogues online law-related information and resources from over 100 NZ organisations
Ministry of Justice publications
New Zealand Law Society - includes a resources page
Publications from the NZ Law Commission, 1986 onwards
Research publications - online publications from the Parliamentary Library
Law Reform Committee Reports from the University of Canterbury's Digital Library - material from the site is subject to strict copyright conditions. You need to read and agree to the conditions before accessing the collection