New Zealand Law Society - Library Services

Library Services

We offer premium services with quality legal research support. Save time and resources with:

While our librarians and researchers supply the content, lawyers remain responsible for exercising professional judgment and providing legal opinion.

Fees for premium services 

AI Citation Checking

AI hallucinated cases can present different ways. We offer a human-centred verification services for AI generated case citations.  Our service ensures:

  • the case exists
  • the citation is correct
  • the facts are correct
  • the quotations are correct
  • the case hasn't been overruled
  • the case is the correct jurisdiction
  • the case isn't a known hallucinated case
  • the case supports the correct area of law

Send us the citations you would like verified and our expert library team will check these against our legal databases and print collection to verify their existence and any details that require confirmation.

Copies of cases can also be supplied using our Document Delivery service.

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Document Delivery

Request Court-ready documents emailed to your inbox.

We provide copies of cases, articles, commentary and excerpts from legal texts, legal definitions, precedents.

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Research Services

Request research on any legal topic, pinpoint recent cases and track the latest developments. 

Our Research Librarians are experts at undertaking legal research on your behalf using our premium suite of legal databases: Lexis+, Westlaw, CCH iKnow Connect, ICLR, HeinOnline.

New Zealand legal research we subscribe to all NZ legal content.

International legal research, our collection and subscriptions cover the following jurisdictions: Australia, Canada, Singapore, the UK and US. 

Historic (point in time) research, We have a substantial collection of previous editions from key legal texts and legislation as enacted. 

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How to brief research

It's always worth speaking to staff about your research as some of our databases have restricted licences.  This means staff have access to a wider collection of resource than is available through our kiosks.

Read more about how to effectively brief the research team and what to include in your research request.