Updates & Alerts

The Crimes Act 1961 commentary has been carefully revised and rewritten by the authors to ensure it is completely current and accurate.

Latest commentary available for the last three sections of pt 4, subpt 2 of the Trusts Act 2019

The Resource Management (National Environmental Standards for Commercial Forestry) Regulations 2017 have been updated as from 3 November 2023. They were previously called the National Environmental Standards for Plantation Forestry.

Important appellate decision on directors’ duties

A summary of decisions delivered in October 2023 by the Supreme Court, available on Westlaw New Zealand.

Due to accessibility issues, we are removing case images from the search results.

Exciting enhancements have been made to the Westlaw homepage.

To enable easy access, the link to the PDF image has been relocated to the top right-hand side of the document.

Navigating different versions of a case has become much easier.

We are happy to advise that Westlaw now supports Full Text Doument Format for Westclip Alerts and Publication Alerts.

The latest Environmental Law Reports of NZ includes July's High Court case, a win for climate activist lawyers.

A draft national planning framework was issued in early October, ahead of the election