Liability of building construction advisers determined

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Following referral by the Solicitor-General of a question of law, the Court of Appeal has found in Re Solicitor-General's Reference (No 1 of 2022) that issuers of ‘producer statements’ can be liable for the correctness of the statements.

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Westlaw New Zealand Guide - Creating Alerts 

This guide provides step-by-step instructions on how to create a publication alert, search alert and case alert in Westlaw.

There are three different types of alerts available in Westlaw: 

  1. Publication Alert:  A Publication Alert will notify you of any updates to a publication.  This is most commonly used in conjunction with the Alert24 News & Current awareness publications.
  2. WestClip Alert:  A WestClip search Alert will notify you of any new documents that are added to Westlaw that match your search criteria.   
  3. KeyCite Alert:  A KeyCite Alert will notify you of any subsequent citing references or changes to the litigation history of a case. 

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Westlaw New Zealand - How to find cases on a point of law using the Key Number System

The Key Number System identifies and indexes legal concepts so you can find cases stating or applying a legal concept. 

Experienced legal editors have read, summarised and classified case law by topic and subtopics that represent specific points of law. Each specific point of law is assigned a unique number, called a Key Number.

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Supreme Court of New Zealand — recent judgments: September 2024

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A summary of decisions delivered in September 2024 by the Supreme Court, available on Westlaw New Zealand.

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Legislation added to Westlaw New Zealand: September 2024

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The following recent Acts, Bills and subordinate legislation are now available on Westlaw New Zealand. Legislation can also be found using the legislation search page. Bills can be found using the bills search page.

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Local Government Key Legislation – new commentary on water services

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Local Government Key Legislation has been updated to discuss amendments by the Local Government (Water Services Preliminary Arrangements) Act 2024 partly in force 3 September 2024 (the remaining provisions, amending other legislation, are to come into force on a date set by Order in...

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