COMLAW 303: Reconstructions & Receiverships
LIBRARY RESOURCES


Legislation

Case Law

Books, Legal Commentaries and Journals

Reference Materials

Internet Resources

Help and Further Readings

Davis Law Library

University of Auckland
13-15 Eden Crescent, Auckland
Private Bag 92019
Auckland Mail Centre
Auckland 1142
New Zealand 
Phone: 64 - 9 - 3737519

LEGISLATION Top of page

NEW ZEALAND

New Zealand legislation is available full text in Brookers Online (helpsheet)  and LexisNexis NZ (helpsheet)

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

Companies Act 1993 as amended by the Companies Amendment Act 2006 so as to include the new Part 15A

Corporations (Investigation and Management) Act 1989

Insolvency Act 2006

Personal Property Securities Act 1999

Receiverships Act 1993

Receiverships Act 1993 (PDF printable copy)

SEE ALSO

Brookers Insolvency Law & Practice is also on Davis Law Library Desk Copy KN310 L1 Z1 BROp

  • Wall Index to Statutes at the end of Stack 1A / 1B, Level 2, Davis Law Library. Access point to NZ printed statutes on Stack 1B

AUSTRALIA

CASE LAW Top of page

NEW ZEALAND

  • LinxPlus and Briefcase 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
  • New Zealand Law Reports (NZLR) - full text LexisNexis NZ; and Davis Law Library Stack 3A 
  • Status Privy Council Judgments - full text LexisNexis NZ 
  • New Zealand Company Law Cases  (NZCLC) - full text CCH New Zealand Online Library>Choose NZ Company Law and Practice; and Davis Law Library  Stack 3A
  • Butterworths Company Reports (BCR)  Davis Law Library Stack 2B
  • Further Davis Law Library links to New Zealand Cases

UNITED KINGDOM

SEE ALSO

  • Appeal Cases (AC)  part of the Law Reports  Stack 7A
  • Bankruptcy and Personal Insolvency Reports  Stack 6B
  • British Company Cases (BCC) Stack 6B
  • Butterworths Company Law Cases (BCLC) Stack 6B
  • Chancery Division (Ch)  part of the Law Reports  Stack 7A
  • Further Davis Law Library links to United Kingdom case law

AUSTRALIA

  • Australian Company Law Cases (ACLC)  Stack 4B
  • Australian Corporation and Securities Reports (ACSR) Stack 4B
  • New South Wales Law Reports (NSWLR) Stacks 5A & 5B 
  • Victorian Reports (VR) Stack 5B
  • Further Davis Law Library links to Australian case law

CANADA

  • Dominion Law Reports (DLR)  Stack 10A
  • Further Davis Law Library links to Canadian cases

BOOKS , LEGAL COMMENTARIES and JOURNALS Top of page

VOYAGER

To locate material in the library on company reconstructions and receiverships you are advised to search Voyager, or Library 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   

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

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

Bankruptcy Corporate debt Law and legislation New Zealand
Bankruptcy Australia Liquidation New Zealand Congresses
Bankruptcy Great Britain New Zealand. Receiverships Act 1993
Bankruptcy New Zealand New Zealand. Parliament. Receiverships Bill 1993
Bankruptcy New Zealand Congresses Receivers Legal status, laws, etc. New Zealand
Business failures. Law and legislation New Zealand Receivers New Zealand

SEE ALSO

BOOKS / COMMENTARY ON DAVIS LAW SHORT LOAN

  • Personal Property Securities in New Zealand / Mike Gedye, Ronald CC Cuming and Roderick J Wood. Thomson Brookers, 2002. Davis Short Loan KN106.4 L1 GEDp
  • Brookers Insolvency Law & Practice Davis Short Loan KN310 L1 Z1 BROKp
  • Insolvency : personal and corporate law and practice / Andrew Keay and Michael Murray. 4th ed. Lawbook Co., 2002. Davis Short Loan KN310 K1 KEA 2002 
  • Blanchard and Gedyes Law of Private Receivers of Companies in New Zealand / Peter Blanchard and Michael Gedye.  LexisNexis, 2008. Davis Short Loan KN312.4 L1 BLA 
  • Law of Business Organisations / by Susan Watson et.al..5th ed.  Palatine Press, 2009. Davis Short Loan KN260 L1 WAT 2009  and  KEIC Short Loan 346.07 W34 2009  
  • McPherson: the law of company liquidation / by Andrew R. Keay.  4th ed.  LBC Information Services, 1999.   Davis Short Loan KN312 K1 MPH 1999 
  • Personal Property Securities : consolidated legislation and analysis / by Mike Gedye. Brookers,  2001.  Davis Short Loan KN106.4 L1 GED  and  KEIC Short Loan 346.9307 G29

REFERENCE MATERIALS Top of page

LEGAL ABBREVIATIONS

ENCYCLOPEDIA

  • LexisNexis NZ -  Laws of New Zealand (the NZ legal encyclopedia) full text online, includes a booklet on Insolvency 

DICTIONARIES

  • Butterworths New Zealand Law Dictionary / by Peter Spiller.  LexisNexis, 2005
    Davis Short Loan K120.5 L1 SPI 2005

INTERNET RESOURCESTop of page

HELP AND FURTHER READINGS Top of page


Contact: davis@auckland.ac.nz
16 February 2011