Speedy, accurate supply of cases, articles and legislation

If you know the reference or citation, we can find the case, article or legislation. In addition to our own resources, we have access to other New Zealand library collections, Westlaw and Lexis databases. So, if we don't have it, we will do our best to track it down.

The requested material can be sent to you by email, fax, DX, courier, or post. Document delivery costs $15.00 per item plus GST, photocopying and delivery charges. If your request is urgent you may wish to pay a priority fee to have it supplied quicker. See our full list of charges.

Online form: Use our online document request form to submit your request (You will be asked to login first), or contact us by email, fax or phone.

Help: See help making a request below.  Feel free to call us at any time to discuss your request or ask for more items.

• email: research@adls.org.nz
• fax: 09 307 8347
• phone: 09 307 8345

Help making a request for document delivery

1. Please specify your preferred delivery method: email pdf document, fax, courier, DX or post
2. Please provide contact details if you're not in your office, in case we need to talk to you about the request.
3. It is often possible for us to get major law reports and legislation from our databases so let us know if it must be photocopied from the book version or if its ok for us to print it to pdf from a database.
4. Please provide as many details as you can about the items you are requesting, such as:

• The full citation; e.g. Harrold v Attorney-General [1995] 2 NZLR 326 (CA)
• If there is more than one citation, which report series you would prefer
• If you would like the pages copied in a particular way eg 1 to 1 for a court copy or a casebook

Unreported cases
As many as possible of the following details: party names, court, date, file number, judge;
e.g. R v C, HC Auckland, 14/11/92, M134-91, Salmon J.

Journal articles
As many as possible of the following details: journal name, year, volume, issue/part, article title, author, pages required;
e.g. Counsel, Sep-Oct 1997, pp24-25. "Fat cat: a thin cat's view", by Charles Parry.

Extract from a text or seminar paper
As many as possible of the following details: title, author, edition required, chapter or section heading, pages required;
e.g. Equity and trusts in Australia by Dal Pont & Chalmers (3rd ed.), Ch.11, "The Doctrine of Part Performance", pp327-353.