About document delivery

Fast, accurate supply of cases, articles and legislation.

If you know the reference or citation, we can find the case, article or legislation. As well as our own resources, we have access to other New Zealand library collections and overseas databases. So if we don’t have it, we will do our best to track it down.

The requested material can be sent to you by email, fax, DX, courier or post. If your request is urgent you may wish to pay a priority fee to have it supplied quicker.

To order please contact your nearest library or use our online document delivery request form.

Need help? See help information below. Feel free to call us at any time to discuss your request or ask for more items.

Document delivery charges

$15 per item plus photocopying for requests such as, but not limited to:

  • unreported judgments and tribunal decisions
  • reported judgments
  • journal articles
  • excerpts from texts
  • excerpts from statutes and regulations
  • Gazette notices

Urgent (within 2 hours)

  • $20 per item

Track and trace

Charged at a pro rata research rate of up to $40 per 15 mins for:

  • mis-cited or incorrect citations
  • liaison with other libraries

Help

To help provide the information you need more efficiently, please:

  • specify your preferred delivery method: email pdf document, fax, courier, DX or post
  • supply an email address to enable us to send the final invoice out
  • provide contact details if you’re not in your office, in case we need to talk to you about the request.

It is often possible for us to get major law reports and legislation from our databases, so let us know if the information you need must be photocopied from the book version or if it is acceptable for us to print it to pdf from a database.

Provide as many details as you can about the items you are requesting, such as:

Reported cases

  • the full citation; e.g. Harrold v Attorney-General [1995] 2 NZLR 326 (CA)
  • if there is more than one citation, which report series you would prefer
  • if you would like the pages copied in a particular way eg, 1-to-1 for a court copy or a casebook.

Unreported cases

As many as possible of the following details: party names, court, date, file number, judge (eg, R v C, HC Auckland, 14/11/92, M134-91, Salmon J).

Journal articles

As many as possible of the following details: journal name, year, volume, issue/part, article title, author, pages required (eg, Counsel, Sep-Oct 1997, pp24-25. “Fat cat: a thin cat’s view”, by Charles Parry).

Extract from a text or seminar paper

As many as possible of the following details: title, author, edition required, chapter or section heading, pages required (eg, Equity and trusts in Australia by Dal Pont & Chalmers (3rd ed.), Ch.11, “The Doctrine of Part Performance”, pp327-353).

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