Judicial Decisions Online - Ministry of Justice
Ministry of Justice site which provides full text access to all unreported Supreme Court decisions, Court of Appeal from 1st January 2003 and High Court decisions from 1st September 2005. Administrative minutes and decisions subject to suppression orders are not available. The decisions can only be accessed via a search of the database. The database can be search by keyword, court, location, judge, party name, counsel and be restricted by year.
Courts of New Zealand
Contains recent decisions from the Supreme Court, Court of Appeal and High Court. Decisions can be browsed and are removed from the site after 28 days. Most decisions are published on the site within a day of being delivered and are generally restricted to criminal sentences and judgments of public interest.
Accident Compensation Corporation (ACC)
Provides full text browsable access to District Court decisions from 2006.
Advertising Standards Authority Inc
Full text of decisions from 2001 onwards and summaries of decisions for 2000. Decisions can be searched by keyword, media and code.
Broadcasting Standards Authority
Searchable database of Broadcasting Standards Authority Decisions.
CCH Tax Site
Contains links to recent IRD rulings and tax cases, which have not been reported in CCH publications yet. Most of the cases are stored as PDF files, so Adobe Acrobat Reader is needed to view them. Also contains links to articles on employment; health & safety; company and business law.
Commerce Commission
Provides full text access to decisions from 1997 which are available in PDF format.
Located under the Public Registers tab the decisions are divided according to subject.
Mergers and Acquisitions - Clearances
Mergers and Acquisitions - Authorisations
Anti-Competitive Practices - Authorisations
Electricity Industry Reform Act - Exemptions
Dairy
Coroners Recommendations Register
The register contains a list of the cases that were opened under the new Coroners Act 2006 where the case has been closed and a recommendation has been given.
Court of Appeal
These decisions can be accessed from the following:
New Zealand Legal Information Institute (NZLII) - full text searchable database of decisions from 1999.
Australian Legal Information Institute (AustLII) - full text searchable database of decisions from 1999.
Ministry of Justice - full text searchable database of decisions from 2003.
Courts of New Zealand - recent decisions can be browsed. Decisions are removed from the site after 28 days.
Department of Building and Housing Determinations
This site hosts determinations of the Department of Building and Housing. Determinations can be searched according to Building Code clause, subject or keyword. They are also available in a browsable format.
Deportation Review Tribunal
Full text decisions from 2006.
Directory of Decisions
Lists the Courts, Tribunals, Statutory Authorities and other such bodies in New Zealand which make legal or quasi-legal decisions. Provides information as to how copies of decisions might be obtained either through published reports, indexing services or online.
Employment Court
Provides full text access to decisions from 1st July 2006.
Employment Case Summaries Online
Provided by the Employment Relations Service, this monthly publication provides summaries of employment cases. Available from 2005.
Family Court of New Zealand Decisions
Provides full text access to selected unreported decisions from 2005 which can be browsed by subject area.
Health and Disability Commissioner's Opinions
Links to the Health & Disability Commissioner's opinions, which can be accessed by using the opinions index in chronological order, or the search facility.
High Court of New Zealand
Judgments from August 2005 can be searched via the Ministry of Justice site and decisions from within the last month can be browsed on the Courts of New Zealand site.
Human Rights Commission
Links to decisions from 2002 of the Human Rights Review Tribunal on NZLII, provides access to recent, significant Tribunal and Court cases as well as some limited pre- 2002 Tribunal and court decisions.
Immigration & Refugee Law
Residence Review Board decisions, information about the Authority, FAQs and useful links. The Removal Review Authority and the Refugee Status Appeals Authority sites also contain decisions, information about the various bodies, FAQs and links to other useful sites.
Intellectual Property Office of New Zealand
The Information Library (Hearings Folder) provides full text access to all Patent, Trade Mark and Design decisions since 1953 issued by the Commissioner of Patents, Trade Marks and Designs.
Legal Aid Review Panel (LARP)
A searchable database of full text LARP decisions. The database is updated weekly.
Liquor Licensing Authority
A searchable database of selected decisions from 2000.
Medical Practitioners Disciplinary Tribunal
Provides access to the decisions of the Medical Practitioners Disciplinary Tribunal, organised by Finding, Charge Characteristic, Additional Orders and Commonly Cited cases.
New Zealand Legal Information Institute (NZLII)
This site provides links to cases including the Supreme Court, Court of Appeal, Commerce Commission and Privacy Commission. Links to full text university law journals, Law Commission papers and legislation are also given.
New Zealand Parole Board Decisions
Provides full text access to decisions that have been requested by the media. Other decisions can be requested subject to privacy aspects. An email address is provided.
Office of the Domain Name Commissioner
Contains the full text of determinations of the Domain Name Commissioner. The site also contain decisions resulting from appeals.
Privy Council Judgments
Official site for judgments from this final Court of Appeal for some Commonwealth countries. Judgments from 1999 onwards, as well as key judgments prior to 1999, are now available. Links to information about the Judicial Committee, and the additional work of the Privy Council.
RefNZ - New Zealand Refugee Law
Contains headnotes of decisions of the Refugee Status Appeal Authority, leading full text decisions of the Refugee Status Appeals Authority and abstracts of decisions of the New Zealand High Court and Court of Appeal. It also contains papers on New Zealand refugee jurisprudence, comment on current refugee issues, recent news and developments in refugee law, key New Zealand refugee statistics and links to other refugee web sites.
Sports Disputes Tribunal of New Zealand
Provides access to the full text decisions of the tribunal.
Supreme Court of New Zealand
Decisions can be access from the following:
Ministry of Justice - searchable database of all decisions.
Courts of New Zealand - browsable access to all decisions. Case summaries are also available.
New Zealand Legal Information Institute (NZLII) - searchable and browsable access to all decisions.
Tenancy Tribunal
Orders can be searched by file number, party name or address.
Youth Court of New Zealand
Contains summaries of decisions from 1989 onwards. Decisions can be browsed according to subject, by sections under the Children Young Persons and Their Families Act 1989 or by date.
Subscription Only
The Knowledge Basket
Provides access to abstracts of cases through LINX and Briefcase.
LINX and LINXplus provide summaries of Court of Appeal, High Court and lower court decisions including Environment and Employment court cases. LINXplus provids access to over 10,000 full text judgments, including High Court decisions, and jump links to full text reported cases and journal articles. Information about the product and subscription options are availabe at LINX database
Briefcase provides summaries of Court of Appeal, High Court and lower court decisions.