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

Treaty of Waitangi

• 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

Government and organisations

• Cabinet Office, includes the latest Cabinet Manual
• Crown Law Office Te Tari Ture o te Karauna
• Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet.
• Law Commission Te Aka Matua o Te Ture
• Local Government Online
• New Zealand Gazette Online via the Department of Internal Affairs
• NZ Government online Kāwanatanga o Aotearoa
• New Zealand Parliament Pāremata Aotearoa
• Office of the Ombudsmen Te Tari-o-Ngā Kaitiaki Mana Tangata
• Parliamentary Counsel Office Te Tari Tohutohu Pāremata
• Participate in government - how to make submissions to a Select Committee, petition Parliament, become a logal government candidate ...
• TheyWorkForYou.co.nz includes debates (2005 onwards), under various categories including bill title, select committee, and MP
  

Legislation and cases

• Hansard Parliamentary debates - searchable via the Parliamentary website, and browsable via The Knowledge Basket
• Legislation for NZ is available via New Zealand Legislation and LegislationNZ, and the Shattering Statutes collection contains facsimiles of all NZ Acts enacted between 1888 and 1894 (no amendments included)
• 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

Case law

• 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

Justice

• 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 business. 
• Ministry of Justice  Tāhū o te Ture

Online research

• LawAccess - catalogues online law-related information and resources from over 100 NZ organisations
• Ministry of Justice publications
• New Zealand Law Society - includes LawTalk and 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