Family Cases is part of the New Zealand topical case law database collection. CASE RECORD COUNT: OVER 15,300.

One of 20 topical case law databases, Family Cases includes all cases reported in the Family Reports of New Zealand as well as other family cases from the Supreme Court, Privy Council, Court of Appeal, High Court, District Courts, Family Court, Youth Court, and Mental Health Review Tribunal.

NB: This database incorporates the former Family Reports of New Zealand and Unreported Family Cases databases.

1. More focused research. Our topical case law databases provide discrete collections of specialist New Zealand case law.

2. Daily updating. A case is classified and uploaded to the specific case law database as soon as it is received from a court or tribunal.

3. Daily automated case selection from our growing collection of over 120,000 case records, ensuring quick access to the latest cases.

4. Improved linking between case law, legislation, and commentary, for effective research.

5. Fully searchable law report and original judgment PDFs (where available)*.

6. A standardised user interface and product structure for ease of use across all case law databases.

7. An advanced search template, including an option to limit searching to reported cases only or to a specific law report series.

8. All case law databases are fully integrated with other Brookers Online content.

9. All case law databases are also fully integrated with the Brookers Online case law citator, CiteCase**, for quick verification of whether a case is good law or not and to find citing references to support and strengthen legal arguments.

10. Easy printing, emailing and document bookmarking options that will make your work faster and easier.

** Additional subscription to CiteCase required.

Media Types

CD

A CD Rom subscription to Family Cases does not include access to PDF documents.