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 is the foremost guide to New Zealand caselaw and legal writing for the last 20 years, created by the law society libraries for lawyers. All New Zealand legal researchers use LINX!
It is a 'digest' database which summarises cases, articles and books. Library staff, legally or professionally qualified, from the three contributing libraries write headnotes for the cases and index the books and journals. LINX currently consists of approximately 170,000 such records. When you search LINX you quickly get an overview of New Zealand law.
LINX is available online, on CD and at the Auckland, Wellington and Canterbury District Law Society Libaries plus a number of other District Law Society Libaries around New Zealand.
Judgments
Note on coverage
Privy Council Decisions
Supreme Court Decisions 2004-
Court of Appeal Decisions 1984 -
High Court Decisions 1983 -:
Auckland Judges
Wellington Judges
Christchurch Judges
NB: High Court Judges are based only in these three cities and visit others on circuit. LINX thus covers most High Court judgments from throughout New Zealand.
Family and Youth Court Decisions:
Selected; New Zealand wide, 1991 -
District Court Decisions 1993 -
Noteworthy reserved judgments and reported judgments
Maori Appellate Court Decisions 1986 -
Selected Employment Court and Employment Relations Authority 1999 -
Selected Environment Court 1999 -
Medical Practitioners' Disciplinary Tribunal 1997 - 2003
Health Practitioners' Disciplinary Tribunal 2003 -
Human Rights Review Tribunal (formerly the Complaints Review Tribunal) 1994 -
Commerce Commission decisions 1997 -
New Zealand Law Practitioners Disciplinary Tribunal decisions (selected) 2000 -
Weathertight Homes Resolution Service decisions 2003 -
Sports Disputes Tribunal 2003 -
Courts Martial Appeal Court decisions 1983 –
Coverage of judgments
In building the LINX database, the library staffs at Auckland, Wellington and Canterbury District Law Societies strive to obtain all judgments of the High Court, Court of Appeal and Supreme Court plus selected judgments from lower courts.
Most judgments are supplied directly to the libraries by the courts and all of those are entered onto LINX as soon as possible unless suppression requirements or court orders prevent that. Others are requested from the court when sought by library users or if staff are otherwise alerted to their existence. In earlier years, judgments were less reliably obtained. There is no complete list of all proceedings in New Zealand courts and accordingly no way to check that all judgments have been received for adding to LINX.
Texts and rare books
LINX includes the combined textbook catalogues of the three contributing libraries with holdings.
Why search an index rather than the full text of the cases?
Searching full text cases well is difficult. The databases are huge and you have to be really good at searching to narrow down what you want. The judge may be eloquent but may never have thought about anyone searching her words and may never even mention the standard words you need to search on. It may be so obvious to the parties that the issue is "land law" that those crucial words never appear in the judgment, only the more specific ones relating to the case. The judgment won’t use the name the case later becomes commonly known by. An example of this is the "Winebox" litigation.
The headnoters and indexers work in a library where people are using LINX. They know users remember cases by popular names and want the legal concepts listed tidily so that they can find them. What you are searching is a much smaller document and much more manageable than the full text. On Linxplus you are able to link to the full text from the LINX record for most Supreme Court, Court of Appeal and High Court judgments for the last 10 years.
Journals
LINX contains brief summaries of journal articles published in all major NZ, Australian and Canadian law journals since 1986. Following is a list of the journal series indexed for the LINX database:
Aboriginal Law Bulletin
Adelaide Law Review
ALMD Advance
Alternative Law Journal
Amcus Curiae
Auckland University Law Review
Australasian Dispute Resolution Journal
Australasian Gay & Lesbian Law Journal
Australia & New Zealand Journal of Law & Education
Australian Bar Review
Australian Business Law Review
Australian Construction Law Newsletter
Australian Current Law Bulletin
Australian Dispute Resolution Journal
Australian Family Lawyer
Australian Intellectual Property Journal
Australian Journal of Corporate Law
Australian Law Journal
Australian Law Librarian
Australian Tax Review
Bond Law Review
British Tax Review
Building & Construction Law
Bulletin : Law Society of South Australia
Butterworths Conveyancing Bulletin
Butterworths Employment Law Bulletin
Butterworths Resource Management Bulletin
Cambridge Law Journal
Canadian Association of Law Libraries Newsletter/Bulletin
Canadian Bar Review
Canadian Law Library Review
Canterbury Law Review
Canterbury Tales
Chartered Accountants' Journal
Child & Family Law Quarterly
Children / Office of the Commissioner for Children
Commonwealth Law Bulletin
Communications Law
Communique
Company & Securities Law Journal
Company Lawyer
Competition & Consumer Law Journal
Competition Review
Computer Law & Practice
Computer & Telecommunications Law Review
Computers & Law (Aus & NZ)
Computers & Law (Great Britain)
Construction Law Journal
Conveyancer & Property Lawyer
Council Brief
Counsel
Criminal Law Journal
Criminal Law Quarterly
Criminal Law Review
Current Legal Problems
Current Taxation (New Zealand)
Entertainment Law Review
Estates, Trusts & Pensions Journal
European Intellectual Property Review (EIPR)
Family Law
Gazette / Law Society
Griffith Law Review
Harvard Law Review
Human Rights Law & Practice (-2003)
Immigration Practitioners Bulletin
Indigenous Law Bulletin
Industrial Law Journal
Intellectual Property Law Review
International & Comparative Law Quarterly
International Bulletin of Law & Mental Health
International Business Lawyer
International Construction Law Review
International Legal Practitioner
International Maritime & Commercial Law Yearbook
IPBA Journal (Inter-Pacific Bar Association)
IRD Tax Information Bulletin
Journal of Banking & Finance Law & Practice
Journal of Bioethical Enquiry
Journal of Business Law
Journal of Contract Law
Journal of International Banking Law & Regulation
Journal of Law & Information Science
Journal of Law & Medicine
Journal of Planning & Environment Law (- 1990)
Journal of the Auckland Medico-Legal Society
Justice of the Peace & Local Government Law
Law Institute Journal
Law Librarian
Law Library Journal
Law News
Law Office Management Journal
Law Quarterly Review
Law Society Journal
Law Society's Gazette
Lawtalk
Legal Action (-1990)
Legal Information Management Reports
Legal Medical Quarterly
Litigation
Lloyd's Maritime & Commercial Law Quarterly
Maori Law Review
Medical Law Review
Medicine Science and the Law
Melanesian Law Journal (-1991)
Melbourne University Law Review
Mental Health & the Law
Modern Law Review
Monash University Law Review
Native Title News
New Law Journal
New Zealand Armes Forces Law Review
New Zealand Business Bulletin
New Zealand Business Law Quarterly
New Zealand Current Taxation
New Zealand Family Law Journal
New Zealand Foreign Affairs & Trade Record
New Zealand Intellectual Property Journal
New Zealand Journal of Environmental Law
New Zealand Journal of Public & International Law
New Zealand Journal of Taxation Law & Policy
New Zealand Law Jnl
New Zealand Law Librarian
New Zealand Law Review
New Zealand Lawyer
New Zealand Property Journal
New Zealand Students' Law Journal
New Zealand Tax Planning Report
New Zealand Universities Law Review
New Zealand Valuers' Jnl
Otago Law Review
Oxford Journal of Legal Studies
Perspectives
PLC: Practical Law for Companies
Proctor
Property Lawyer
Public Law
Public Law Review
Queensland Law Society Journal
Queensland University of Technology Law & Justice Journal
Reform
Revenue Law Journal
Restitution Law review
Scots Law Times
Solicitors' Journal
Sydney Law Review
Takapau
Te Manutukutuku
Tirohia
Tolley's Communications Law
Tolley's Computer Law & Practice
Tort Law Review
Tottel's Journal of Professional Negligence
Trade Practices Law Journal
University of Auckland Business Review
University of New South Wales Law Journal
University of Queensland Law Journal
University of Tasmania Law Review
University of Western Australia Law Review
Victoria University of Wellington Law Review
Waikato Law Review : Taumauri
Yearbook of New Zealand Jurisprudence
Youth Law Review
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