New Zealand case law and tribunal decision search

The collection is the published body of New Zealand law: judgments of the Supreme Court, Court of Appeal, High Court, District Court, Family Court, Employment Court, Environment Court, the Maori Land and Maori Appellate Courts and the Coroners Court, together with historical series including Privy Council appeals and the New Zealand Gazette Law Reports. Tribunal and authority decisions sit alongside them, including the Employment Relations Authority, the Human Rights Review Tribunal, the Immigration and Protection Tribunal, the Tenancy and Disputes Tribunals, the Real Estate Agents Authority and the Weathertight Homes Tribunal.

Current and repealed Acts and Regulations, Bills and historical statutes are included, as are the New Zealand law reviews and law reform reports. Coverage runs from the nineteenth century in the senior courts through to recent decisions, and depends on what each court or tribunal has published.

Searching a party name returns the decisions in which that name appears, with the court, the citation and the date. That establishes litigation history: whether the subject has been sued, has sued, has been through an employment or tenancy dispute, has appeared in a company or insolvency proceeding, or has had findings made against them by a regulator or a professional authority.

Two cautions apply. Names are not unique, so a match is a lead until the judgment text confirms it is the same person or entity, and the published collection is a free access reproduction of official material rather than the authoritative text. Where the outcome matters, the official court or legislation record is what you cite. Suppression orders and name suppression are respected as published.

Case law is at its most useful before you spend money. A prior judgment for the same debt, a history of defended proceedings, or a regulator's finding against a counterparty all change how a file is run, and all of them are cheaper to find at the outset than to discover at the hearing.

This source is queried as part of a consolidated skip tracing enquiry, on the same authorised-purpose declaration and the same audit record as every other source. There is no separate account, no separate invoice and no minimum spend against it. What you pay is the monthly subscription plus the searches you run, set out on the pricing page.