COMLAW 203: Company Law

Referencing Style for Commercial Law Students

Use APA for referencing all sources of information except case law and legislation.

Use NZLSG (New Zealand Law Style Guide) for referencing case law and legislation only.

Legislation 

New Zealand

New Zealand legislation is available full text in Brookers Online  (helpsheet) and LexisNexis NZ (helpsheet) and IntelliConnect (CCH) (helpsheet). Free access to New Zealand legislation is available full text in New Zealand Legislation. Access to recent bills and Hansard is available on the New Zealand Parliament web site.

The links below take you directly into Brookers Online (they may take a moment to load):

• Companies Act 1993
• Co-operative Companies Act 1996
• Fair Trading Act 1986
• Financial Reporting Act 1993
• Insolvency Act 2006
• Securities Markets Act 1988
• Partnership Act 1908
• Takeovers Act 1993

See Also

• Statutes of New Zealand Davis Law Library Level 2, Stack 1B.
  Refer to the Wall Index to Statutes at the end of Stack 1A / 1B to find the right volume

Case Law 

New Zealand 

• New Zealand Law Reports (NZLR) 1883-
  Davis Law Stack 2B. Also available online in LexisNexis NZ
  
  
• Company and Securities Cases. Available in Brookers Online
  Includes cases since 1986 from the Privy Council, Court of Appeal, High Court and District Court cases and selected earlier cases
  

• NZ Company Law Cases (NZCLC)1981-
  Davis Law Stack 2B. Recent copies are on Desk Copy at Davis.
  Also available online in IntelliConnect (CCH)

Linxplus and Briefcase Databases

• Linxplus ( in LexisNexis NZ) and Briefcase (in Brookers Online) provide summaries and full text reported and unreported judgments. Judgments on LinxPlus are taken from the Court of Appeal and High Court. 
  Judgments on Briefcase are taken from the District Court, Court of Appeal, High Court, Privy Council and other selected judicial bodies

See Also

• Further Davis Law Library links to New Zealand Cases

Books and Legal Commentaries 

Library Catalogue

To locate material in the library on company law you are advised to search the library's online catalogue  

• Books are shelved in the Davis Law library on Level 1 by Moys call number, an internationally recognised legal classification scheme   

Catalogue Subject Headings

Below are a selection of Subject Headings to help get you started.  They open up a subject heading index.  From this screen click on a subject heading of interest to display a corresponding list of books and journals:

Short Loan Material

Check the recommended readings chosen by your lecturer on Voyager under the Course Material Search tab. Click on the pull down arrow next to the Course search box and highlight the course name COMLAW 203.  Click Search. 

Recommended readings can also be found using the Readings & Exams tab in Library Search. Enter COMLAW 203 in the search box and click Search. Select the Course Material link under Refine My Results.

High demand material is also available in the Short Loan Collection, Kate Edger Information Commons. 

A selection of materials held at the Davis Law Library is listed below.

Recommended texts

• Understanding Commercial Law / Philippa Gerbic and Leigh Miller. 7th ed.
  KEIC Short Loan 346.07 G36 2010; Davis Short Loan and 5 Day Loan KN250 L1 GER 2010

• Law of business organisations / Susan Watson. 5th ed.
  Davis Short Loan KN260 L1 WAT 2009

• Company and securities law in New Zealand / John Farrar, ed. 2008.
  Davis Short Loan KN261 L1 FARcs

• Company and securities law : commentary and materials / Ross B Grantham and Charles EF Rickett. 2002.
  Davis Short Loan KN261 L1 GRA

• Butterworths introduction to commercial law / Cynthia Hawes, ed. 2010.
  Davis Short Loan KN250 L1 BUT 2010

Legislation and Commentary

• Brookers Company and Securities Law Davis Short LoanKN261 L1 BRO
  Also available in Brookers Online
  
  
• Gault on Commercial Law Davis Short LoanKN250 L1 BRO - also available in Brookers Online
  
  
• Morison's Company and Securities Law Davis Short Loan KN261 L1 MORc
  Also available in LexisNexis NZ as Morison's Company Law and Morison's Securities Law
  
  
• New Zealand Company Law and Practice Davis Short Loan KN261 L1 Z1 NEW
  Also available in IntelliConnect (CCH)

Journals 

Journals are shelved in the Davis Law Library on Level 1 in alphabetical order.

• Company and Securities Law Bulletin

• NZ Business Law Quarterly
  Also available fulltext in Brookers Online

See Also

• Further Davis Law Library links to NZ legal journals

Internet Resources

• New Zealand Companies Office.

Resources for Legal Writing

The following texts provide information on how to write legal essays and opinions:

• How to study business law : reading, writing and exams / Glenda M Crosling and Helen M Murphy. 3rd ed.
  Davis Short Loan KL146 CRO 2000

• How to write better law essays : tools for success in exams and assignments / Steve Foster. 2nd ed .
  Davis Short Loan K101 FOS 2009

• Legal research and writing in New Zealand / Margaret Greville, Scott Davidson and Richard Scragg. 3rd ed.
  Davis Short Loan K79 L1 GRE 2007

• Legal method & reasoning / Sharon Hanson. 3rd ed.
  Davis Short Loan KL131 HAN 2010

• Mastering law studies and law exam techniques / Richard Krever. 6th ed.
  Davis Short Loan KL130 KRE 2006

• How to write law essays and exams / SI Strong. 2nd ed.
  Davis Short Loan K101 STRO 2006

• Legal writing / Lisa Webley. 2nd ed.
  Davis Short Loan K101 WEB 2010