Purchase in November 2025

New Zealand

Varying charitable trust deeds
Kimberly Lawrence, Kevin Lenahan (Presenters)
Wellington : NZLS CLE (2025)

This webinar addresses: Common variations being made to charitable trust deeds, when to use a variation power and when to apply to the High Court, and the more appropriate route when applying to the High Court. This webinar considers common variations being made, the availability of s130 Trusts Act to effect variations in circumstances where there is no variation power, when a potential variation could take place under the Trusts Act, and when the Charitable Trusts Act 1957 should be used instead.
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Undue influence - a growing concern
Gregory Ambler (Presenter)
Wellington : NZLS CLE (2025)

This webinar looks into undue influence in the context of succession law. It  explores the legal basis for the doctrine, and the way in which lawyers can: take steps to identify risks of undue influence, use appropriate medical professionals to determine whether a client may be at risk of undue influence, respond appropriately when a risk is identified and mitigate professional risks, and respond to claims of undue influence in court proceedings (in light of recent case law).
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Appellate work in the Family Court
Stephen Caradus (Presenter)
Wellington : NZLS CLE (2025)

The webinar refreshes  knowledge and skills, whether you are experienced or new to appeals in the Family Court. Topics covered include: an overview of procedural issues, cost and case management filing and direction on the preparation of written submissions and how you should present them.
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Health and safety update 2025
Greg Cain, Tracey Conlon  (Presenters)
Wellington : NZLS CLE (2025)

This webinar covers the latest case law and regulatory changes in health and safety, including recent cases on liability, sentencing and upcoming law reforms. Topics also include: an overview of WorkSafe’s strategy and key enforcement focus areas.
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Without notice applications - best practice
Judge Tim Black, Paolo Timajo  (Presenters)
Wellington : NZLS CLE (2025)

This practical session covers the basics and provide direct comments from a judge on preparing effective Without Notice applications. Topics include: judicial feedback – what does and doesn’t work well, behind the scenes of the judges’ e-duty platform, deciding whether a without notice application is appropriate or not and how to craft compelling and concise evidence, focusing on clarity, relevance, and structure.
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A new regime for High Court civil proceedings
Hon Justice Francis Cooke, Hon Justice Sally Fitzgerald, Daniel Kalderimis KC (Presenters)
Wellington : NZLS CLE (2025)

Overview of the new High Court (Improved Access to Civil Justice) Amendment Rules which implement the Committee’s recommendations in relation to the High Court in its 2022 report “Improving Access to Civil Justice”. The new regime is due to commence on 1 January 2026. This webinar outlines the background, content and implications of the new Rules once they are implemented.
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Tax Conference 2025
Helen Johnson (Chair)
Wellington : NZLS CLE (2025)

Updates and overviews on: Legislative design and practical implications for investment boosts, capital gains tax, charities and not-for-profits,  Financial Arrangements Rules: related-party debt remission,  characterisation of payments,  navigating tax issues for a fast-growing business, Foreign Investment Funds and Limited Partnerships.
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Legal Executives Conference 2025
Carmen Franich (Chair)
Wellington : NZLS CLE (2025)

Updates and overviews on: Estate administration, advising on a "small" business purchase, enduring powers of attorney, AI and how to make it work for you, retirement villages and the move to assisted care, complex wills, Overseas Investment Office (OIO) consent, subdivisions, three important tax issues for legal executives: brightline tests, GST, PRA and the trusts  and winding up a trust executives.
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Employment law : practical skills forum
Andrea Twaddle (Chair)
Wellington : NZLS CLE (2025)

Overviews of: Employment and health matters, advocacy skills in the employment jurisdiction, consultation and restructuring and when employment law collides with other areas of law.
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A brief history of Māori judges : Nga Kaiwhakawa Māori
Lane Harvey, Aiden Warren
Wellington : LexisNexis (2025)

Bilingual book highlighting the history of the Māori Judiciary. The pukapuka focuses on honouring Māori Judges, Te Ao Māori and acknowledging the effect Te Tiriti o Waitangi has had on Māori and the advancement of tikanga within the NZ legal system over time.
Library Locations: Auckland, Wellington, Canterbury

Psychiatry and the law (2nd ed)
Warren Brookbanks, Jeremy Skipworth (eds)
Wellington : LexisNexis (2025)

Examines issues around intellectually disabled and mentally impaired defendants, including fitness to plead, insanity, sentencing, disposition, and services for mentally impaired defendants.
Library Location: Wellington

International

MacGillivray on Insurance Law (16th ed)
John Birds, Ben Lynch, Simon Milnes
UK : Sweet & Maxwell (2025)

Covers general principles of UK insurance law such as misrepresentation and good faith and gives a detailed examination of loss, explaining key themes like causation and the necessity for notice. It also looks at particular classes of business with chapters on third party risks and liability policies, the rights of third parties against the insurer  and the law governing double insurance.
Library Location: Auckland

Marsden and Gault on Collisions at Sea, 16th ed
Andrew Tettenborn, John Kimbell KC
UK : Sweet & Maxwell (2025)

Provides an in-depth guide to the specialist and self-contained area of Collision and Loss in maritime law examining recent cases and convention developments.  Covers:  developments in the law of limitation, changes in the rules on jurisdiction, developments in the law of damages relevant to collisions, new rules on collision statements of case and amendments to the Collision Regulations.
Library Location: Auckland

The Law of Contract Damages (4th ed)
Adam Kramer KC
UK : Sweet & Maxwell (2025)

Covers damages in contract law and commercial dispute. Commentary is structured according to the type of breach of obligation, loss of use of money, factual causation and actual loss, principles of remoteness, mitigation and legal causation.
Library Location: Auckland

How to win : the future of law with AI
Isabella Tisenhusen
Bloomsbury Professional : UK (2025)

The title provides advice on how lawyers and law firms can integrate new technology and improve their legal practice. It further explains how to make interactions between lawyers and clients a win-win for all parties involved, while increasing client retention and profit for the firm.
Library Location: Wellington

Buckley : the law of negligence and nuisance (7th ed)
Richard A Buckley
LexisNexis : UK (2025)

This new edition discusses recent UK and overseas cases. Buckley deals with the multiple duties owed at the interface of the principles of negligence with medical and personal injury law, employment law, consumer law and licensing.
Library Locations: Auckland, Wellington

Purchase in October 2025

New Zealand

Ia Tangata = Protections in the Human Rights Act 1993 for people who are transgender, people who are non-binary and people with innate variations of sex characteristics
Law Commission
(Wellington : Law Commission, 2025)

Reviews protections in New Zealand's Human Rights Act 1993 for transgender, non-binary, and people with innate variations of sex characteristics.
Library Locations: Auckland, Canterbury, Wellington

GST – A Practical Guide (11th ed)
(Auckland : Wolters Kluwer, 2025)

Discusses goods and services tax in New Zealand. Outlines the broad framework and operation of GST, special problem areas and contentious issues related to the Goods and Services Tax Act 1985.
Library Location: Wellington

International

Medical Law and Ethics (7th ed)
Pattinson, Shaun
(Sydney : Thomson Reuters, 2025)

Covers negligence, patient information, consent, reproductive medicine, research, transplantation and end of life. Considers the wider contextual pressures facing the law such as the impact of patient consumerism, the changing perceptions of medicine, and the impact of (international and domestic) recognition of human rights.
Library Location: Auckland

Sentencing in Australia (11th ed)
Bargaric, Alexander
(Sydney : Thomson Reuters, 2025)

Provides an overview of sentencing law in Australia, punishment, sentencing and the nature of criminal sanctions, judicial reasoning in sentencing, procedural and evidential matters, sentencing appeals, principle of proportionality and discusses the main sentencing objectives factors and indigenous background and sentencing.
Library Location: Auckland

Contract Law
Christensen, Dixon and Lumb
(Sydney : Thomson Reuters, 2025)

Analysis of Australian contract law, it examines  consumer guarantees, unfair contract terms, and misleading and deceptive conduct, with in-depth analysis of recent High Court jurisprudence in the areas of restitution for services rendered and recovery of money paid by mistake, the doctrine of penalties, remoteness of damage, frustration and estoppel.
Library Location: Auckland

Principles of Contract Law (7th ed)
Robertson and Paterson
(Sydney : Thomson Reuters, 2025)

Overview of Australian contract law. It discusses electronic transactions, agreement and formalities has been revised and updated, estoppel, restitution, implied terms, unfair contract terms, consumer guarantees, waiver, damages and misleading conduct.
Library Location: Auckland

Discrimination Law (3rd ed)
Connolly, Michael
(London : Sweet & Maxwell, 2025)

Discusses several areas including employment law and human rights and covers the Equality Act 2010, the Human Rights Act 1998 and European Convention on Human Rights, as well the Codes of Practice. Also includes Canada and Australia. Presents different theories and definitions of what is classed as discrimination and explains the application of discrimination law in practice.
Library Location: Auckland

Miller's Australian Competition & Consumer Law Annotated (47th ed)
(Sydney : Thomson Reuters, 2025)

Annotated discussion of the Competition and Consumer Act 2010. Covers accessorial liability, contracts arrangements and understandings, misuse of market power, misleading and deceptive conduct and penalties.
Library Location: Auckland

Wills, administration and taxation law and practice (14th ed)
Lesley King
(London : Sweet & Maxwell, 2024)

Applies a practical approach to the subject of will drafting, probate, and taxation. Includes discussion on recent decisions on testamentary capacity, changes to the treatment of low income estates and trusts.
Library Location: Auckland

Artificial intelligence, robots and the law (2nd ed)
Guihot and Moses
(NSW : LexisNexis, 2025)

Discusses  critical ethical and legal issues relating to developments in AI and robotics. The new edition includes the implications of generative AI, challenges to privacy and legislative and regulatory developments around the world.
Library Location: Wellington

The hidden world of the legal aid lawyer : upholding the heart of justice
Cooke, Emma
(Bristol : Bristol University Press, 2025)

Study of how cuts have transformed the professional identity of legal aid lawyers. Documents the first-hand experiences of those on the front line and how these professionals navigate the landscape while maintaining their commitment to justice.
Library Location: Wellington

Purchased in September 2025

New Zealand

Purchased in August 2025

International

Interpretation of testamentary documents (2nd ed)
GE Dal Pont 
(NSW : LexisNexis : 2025) 

Discusses the role, process and rules of interpretation to ascertain testamentary wishes. It also discusses the interpretation of terms used in wills to describe beneficiaries and the various interpretational challenges surrounding the share of an estate received by beneficiaries.
Library Location: Auckland 

Advocacy in practice (8th ed)
James Glissan 
(NSW : LexisNexis : 2025) 

Includes a new chapter on the benefits and risks of the use of AI and practical strategies to mitigate those risks. It also provides greater coverage to the place and function of written submissions and argument in the context of appeals and first instance hearings. Provides a thorough consideration of practical advocacy.
Library Location: Auckland 

Charlesworth & Percy on Negligence (16th Ed)
Mark Armitage (ed) 
(Sweet & Maxwell : UK : 2025) 

Sets out the general principles covering duty of care and liability issues under the tort of negligence. Shows how the principles developed through the application of the common law and explains how the law of negligence has been applied in the UK and Commonwealth jurisdiction. Explains what remedies may be available and the burden of proof and standard of care in negligence cases.
Library Location: Auckland 

The Conflict of Laws, 11th Edition
David McClean 
(Sweet & Maxwell : UK : 2025) 

Covers all the main aspects of private international law. It traces the development of the ideas and fundamental principles of the subject and examines the current practice of the English courts. New ed includes: reflection of the changing patterns in the English rules of the conflict of laws and the recognition of foreign judgments.
Library Location: Auckland

Shareholders' Agreements 9th Edition
Sean Fitzgerald, Graham Muth 
(Sweet & Maxwell : UK : 2025) 

Practical guidance on the nature and effect of shareholders’ agreements and articles of association. The new edition has been substantially updated to provide more practical guidance on drafting shareholders’ agreements and other related documentation through the use of detailed drafting notes.  
Library Location: Auckland 

Purchased in July 2025

New Zealand

Purchased in June 2025

New Zealand

Tikanga Māori and State Law
Jayden Houghton
(Wellington : Thomson Reuters, 2025)

International

Arbitration Clauses and Third Parties
Asli Arda
(Oxon : Informa Law from Routledge, 2025)

Bean on Injunctions 15th ed.
David Bean, Andrew Burns, and Fitzrene Headley
(London : Sweet & Maxwell, 2025)

Buckley : the Law of Negligence and Nuisance 7th ed.
Richard A Buckley
(London : LexisNexis, 2024)

Company Directors : Principles of Law and Corporate Governance 2nd ed.
Ian Ramsay
(Chatswood, NSW : LexisNexis, 2023)

Construction All Risks Insurance 4th ed.
Paul Reed
(London : Sweet & Maxwell, 2025)

Disclosure in Criminal Proceedings 2nd ed.
Paul Jarvis and Oliver Glasgow (Editors)
(Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2025)

Drafting 22nd ed.
David Emmet
(Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2024)

Equity and Trusts 11th ed.
Alastair Hudson
(Oxon : Routledge, 2025)

Fridman's the Law of Contract in Canada 7th ed.
Jason W Neyers (Editor) and GHL Fridman
(Toronto : Carswell, 2024)

Intellectual Property : Patents, Copyright, Trade Marks and Allied Rights 10th ed.
David Llewelyn and Tanya Aplin
(London : Sweet & Maxwell, 2023)

Judges, Judging, and Judgment : Character, Humility and Wisdom in a Polarized World
Chad M Oldfather
(Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2024)

Law of Code : Blockchain and the Law in Australia
Michael Bacina and Steven Pettigrove
(Chatswood NSW : LexisNexis Australia, 2025)

The Law of Contract 16th ed.
Treitel the Law of Contract
Edwin, Peel
(London : Sweet & Maxwell, 2025)

The Law of Construction Disputes 4th ed.
Cyril Chern
(Oxon : Informa Law from Routledge, 2025)

Lawyers' Professional Responsibility 8th ed.
Gino Evan Dal Pont
(Sydney : Thomson Reuters (Professional) Australia Ltd, 2025)

Legal Opinions in Commercial Transactions 4th ed.
Wilfred McKinnon Estey
(Toronto : LexisNexis, 2022)

Remedies in Construction Law 3rd ed.
Roger Ter Haar and Camilla Ter Haar
(Oxon : Informa Law from Routledge, 2025)

What Clients Want from Law Firms
Alex Davies (Editor)
(Milton Keynes : Globe Law & Business, 2025)

Purchased in May 2025 

New Zealand 

Purchased in April 2025 

New Zealand 

International 

Purchased in March 2025 

Purchased in January and February 2025 

New Zealand 

Dobbie's Probate and Administration Practice 7th ed. 
Arthur Evan Dobbie [et al.] 
(Wellington : LexisNexis NZ, 2025) 

The Law and Practice of Charities in Aotearoa New Zealand 2nd ed. 
Susan Barker [et al.] 
(Wellington : LexisNexis, 2025) 

Mahoney on Evidence : Act and Analysis 2nd ed. 
Scott Optican (General Editor) 
(Wellington : Thomson Reuters, 2024) 

Teaching Contract : My Way  
David McLaughlan 
(Wellington : Thomson Reuters, 2025) 

International 

Copinger and Skone James on Copyright 19th ed. 
Gwilym Harbottle, Nicholas Caddick & Uma Suthersanen 
(London : Sweet & Maxwell, 2025)  

Corones' Competition Law in Australia 8th ed. 
Yane Svetiev 
(Sydney : Thomson Reuters, 2023) 

Dealing with Delay and Disruption on Construction Projects 2nd ed. 
Kim Rosenberg & Erin Miller Rankin 
(London : Sweet & Maxwell, 2024) 

Derham on the Law of Set-off 5th ed. 
Rory Derham
(Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2024) 

Gale on Easements 22nd ed. 
Jonathan Gaunt & Paul Morgan 
(London : Sweet & Maxwell, 2025) 

Hanbury and Martin Modern Equity 23rd ed. 
Jamie Glister & James Lee 
(London : Sweet & Maxwell, 2024) 

Injunctions in Private Law 
David Capper 
(Cheltenham : Edward Elgar Publishing, 2024) 

Keating on Construction Contracts 12th ed. 
Vivian Ramsey, Simon Hughes & Piers Stansfield 
(London : Sweet & Maxwell, 2025) 

The Law of Liability Insurance 4th ed. 
Desmond Derrington, Ronald Ashton
(Chatswood NSW : LexisNexis, 2025) 

The Law of Privacy and the Media 4th ed. 
Nicole Moreham & Adam Speker (Eds.) 
(London : Oxford University Press, 2024) 

Legal Professional Privilege in Criminal Investigations and Proceedings 
Vivien Cochrane & Will Hayes 
(Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2024) 

Mitigation in the Law of Damages 
Andy Summers 
(Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2024) 

Mustill and Boyd : Commercial and Investor State Arbitration 3rd ed. 
David Foxton (General editor) 
(London : LexisNexis, 2024) 

A Practical Guide to Effective Dispute Resolution : Methods and Clauses 
Natalia Perova & Peter Fields 
(London : Sweet & Maxwell, 2024) 

Principles of the Law of Restitution 4th ed. 
Graham Virgo 
(Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2024) 

Smith, Hogan & Ormerod's Criminal Law 17 ed. 
David Ormerod, Karl Laird & Matthew Gibson 
(Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2024) 

Snell's Equity 35th ed. 
Elliott, Steven (General editor) 
(London : Sweet & Maxwell, 2025) 

Unjust Enrichment 3rd ed. 
Kit Barker & Ross Grantham 
(Chatswood NSW : LexisNexis, 2025)