The Laws of New Zealand: Difference between revisions

The Laws of New Zealand is an encyclopaedic work which is a New Zealand equivalent of Halsbury's Laws of England, but is written for New Zealand. It is an encyclopaedia of the laws of New Zealand and is intended to provide a reliable statement of the whole law of New Zealand – statutory, regulatory, and judicial. It is published by LexisNexis and is the only legal encyclopaedia in New Zealand. Each title includes extensive cross-referencing to other titles as well as to Halsbury’s Laws of England and Halsbury’s Laws of Australia. Authors include Judges, academics, and senior members of the New Zealand legal profession appointed by the founding Editor-in-Chief, Lord Cooke of Thorndon. After October 2007, all new authors are approved by the current Editor-in-Chief, John McGrath (judge)|Justice John McGrath of the Supreme Court of New Zealand. The authors give the publication its authority through their specialist and practical knowledge of New Zealand law. It is accordingly recognized as a work of extremely high quality.

The work consists of approximately 150 titles distributed in approximately 30 ring binders with other binders providing for the serivice updates which are produced quarterly. The work is also available online and on CD, with thee service updates in those media being consolidated into the titles. Several individual titles are reissued each year.