Book Title: Essential Legal Research Skills in Aotearoa New Zealand
Edited by Theresa Buller
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Book Description: This guide to legal research and citation of New Zealand law provides direction to students undertaking legal research. It may also be useful for members of the public and self-represented litigants. It covers the core skills and knowledge for effective legal research, such as creating a search strategy, identifying where to locate legal information and legal citation using the New Zealand Law Style Guide. This text explores searching for sources of legal information including case law, legislation and commentary and explains the different approaches required to locate and cite these sources of law.
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This guide to legal research and citation of New Zealand law provides direction to students undertaking legal research. It may also be useful for members of the public and self-represented litigants. It covers the core skills and knowledge for effective legal research, such as creating a search strategy, identifying where to locate legal information and legal citation using the New Zealand Law Style Guide. This text explores searching for sources of legal information including case law, legislation and commentary and explains the different approaches required to locate and cite these sources of law.
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Essential Legal Research Skills in Aotearoa New Zealand Copyright © 2025 by Waipapa Taumata Rau | University of Auckland is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.
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Essential Legal Research Skills in Aotearoa New Zealand Copyright © 2025 by Waipapa Taumata Rau | University of Auckland is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.
This book was published by Waipapa Taumata Rau | University of Auckland via the Council of Australasian University Librarians (CAUL) Open Educational Resources Collective. The online version is available at https://oercollective.caul.edu.au/essential-legal-research-skills-nz
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This guide, Essential Legal Research Skills in Aotearoa New Zealand is an adaptation of Legal Research Skills: An Australian Law Guide (2023 Edition), used under a Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial 4.0 licence. Essential Legal Research Skills in Aotearoa New Zealand is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial 4.0 Licence by Waipapa Taumata Rau | University of Auckland.
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