Essential Legal Research Skills in Aotearoa New Zealand

Theresa Buller; Catherine Doughty; Melanie Lovich; Tracey Thomas; Kate Thompson

doi:10.18124/akrx-7f62

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Essential Legal Research Skills in Aotearoa New Zealand

Theresa Buller, Catherine Doughty, Melanie Lovich, Tracey Thomas and Kate Thompson

University of Auckland, 1st ed.

17/09/2025

DOI: https://doi.org/10.18124/akrx-7f62

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Law

research skills

legal research

New Zealand

Aotearoa

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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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Record Identifier: 9926851170501891
Title: Essential Legal Research Skills in Aotearoa New Zealand
Creators: Theresa Buller
Catherine Doughty
Melanie Lovich
Tracey Thomas
Kate Thompson
Contributors: Theresa Buller (Editor) - University of Canterbury
Academic Unit: Libraries; Faculty of Law
Publisher: University of Auckland
ISBN: 9780473756383
Date published ; e-published: 17/09/2025
Copyright: Copyright © University of Auckland 2025. This work was first published by the University of Auckland via the Council of Australian University Librarians Open Educational Resources Collective. This is an open access work distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons‐Attribution‐NonCommercial License 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), except where otherwise noted. This license permits non-commercial use, reproduction, adaptation and distribution of the work in any medium provided the original work is properly attributed to the creator(s) and the source, a link to the Creative Commons license is provided, and any changes made are indicated.
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