New Zealand Law Society - Databases

Databases

Your Law Society Library subscribes to a comprehensive collection of premium legal databases for use by all NZ legal practitioners.  Use the links below to access to quality legal information on all areas of New Zealand law, alongside material from Australia, Canada, Singapore, the UK and USA jurisdictions. 

See Law Society Terms and Conditions for database access and use.

Library catalogue

All content is indexed in our catalogue regardless of format, location or database it is contained within. 

Databases

  • Westlaw NZ - Thomson Reuters (requires displayed login and password)
  • Westlaw Canada - Bestcase (only available in the Auckland, Canterbury, Otago and Wellington libraries - access via Westlaw-International tab-Canada)
  • Lexis+ - LexisNexis
  • Argument Analyser - LexisNexis
  • CCH iKnowConnect - Wolters Kluwer (tax, business, employment, property and other practice areas)
  • Globe Law - 300+ Ebook collection from Globe Law & Business 
  • HeinOnline - 3,000+ scholarly journals (only available in Auckland, Canterbury, Wellington libraries)
  • ICLR - Incorporated Council of Law Reporting (UK cases)
  • Lexis RED - NZ legal texts on demand (contact library for personal login) 
  • Linxplus - LexisNexis - judgments and journal index database (archived version as at 31.03.2026).
  • NZLII - New Zealand Legal Information Institute

All subscribed content

  • All content - alphabetical list of all legal content, titles and report series included within the subscription databases. 

By jurisdiction

By practice area/topic