Am I a bad person for wanting a cabinet reshuffle *just* so new Briefings to Incoming Ministers are generated? I really enjoyed the hunting down of documents for our BIM's database on NZLII - www.nzlii.org/nz/other/NZB... - the range of organisations preparing BIMs is so fascinating.

Anybody else (or just stupid me) can not remember what days they put down as leave over the holiday break so unsure whether I should officially be working on Monday or just unofficially working?

The New Zealand High Court (NZHC) has issued decision [2025] NZHC 4002. In 2024 the decision with the MNC of 4002 was issued on the 20th December 2024. Based on this it is likely the NZHC will issue 2.5% more decisions in 2025 than it did in 2024

The second Health Board report on Drug Dependency and Drug Abuse in New Zealand is now up on NZLII at www.nzlii.org/nz/other/NZA... @strictlyobiter.bsky.social @publicaddress.bsky.social

Wonder where I can get hold of the old cabinet Office Manuals to add to NZLII? Hmmm. Wonder if Parliamentary Library has them all in paper? Thanks for putting the idea in my head @openpolicy.bsky.social @debterron.bsky.social

You asked and I (have partially for now) delivered. Well @strictlyobiter.bsky.social and @publicaddress.bsky.social asked First Report of the Board of Health on Drug Dependency and Drug Abuse in New Zealand is now on NZLII at www.nzlii.org/nz/other/NZA... Not my finest scanning job but it will do

If you are in Wellington or Auckland and wish to meet up with myself, and two of the Directors of AustLII to talk about all things NZLII (and hear about the changes we are making) please rsvp to [email protected] Wellington 15 September 5pm NZLS rooms Auckland 17 September 5pm MC Exciting times!

How much realistically can I do today? I have 15 things on my immediate NZLII to do list. How many should I expect to get done today? Before you say none as it is a Saturday - I have hurt my knee so can not do much else, and husband has his game afternoon/evening on. Perfect time to do NZLII stuff

Can not remember any other New Zealand High Court cases about ostriches!

The judgment referred to in this Stuff article www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3606... is available on NZLII here - www.nzlii.org/nz/cases/NZD...

Anyone who reads the decisions of the NZ Private Security Personnel Licensing Authority (www.nzlii.org/nz/cases/NZP... ) would never advocate for Security guards being allowed to carry batons, tasers or pepper spray - newsroom.co.nz/2025/03/05/r...

Going through the New Zealand Gazette files before they are conveyed to AustLII to be added to our exceedingly popular New Zealand Gazettes database - and came across this gem from 1905

I should never make predictions. The big round number has just been achieved (so today, and not Tuesday or Wednesday as I predicted in my previous post) - and by a database not in that list.🎈🥳 There are now 600,000 documents on NZLII with the updating of the Treaties database

Perhaps tomorrow, if not tomorrow then definitely Wednesday, NZLII will reach another round figure of number of documents on it. What that document will be is more uncertain than usual as there are a lot of things awaiting loading.

When you see an email from the NZSC (Supreme Court) in your inbox and get excited that it might be a very early (for them) first decision from them for 2025 - only to find it a resend of a 2024 decision (presumably there had been a correction made)

So with Aotearoa/New Zealand Tribunals and Councils generally opening for 2025 on Monday, my biggest thought is which will be the first to load a 2025 decision to NZLII. I will most likely be wrong but I reckon it will be between Auckland Council DLC Queenstown DLC ERA My guess is Queenstown

Just seen [2024] NZHC 3900 - will at least 100 New Zealand High Court decisions get issued either tomorrow or Monday? #nzlaw

I do not usually have time to read cases at the moment but sometimes I just have a peak - and the one I looked at this morning while psyching myself up to tackle my very long to do list had these two gems in it

On 1 January 2024 there was 65,128 cases in NZLII's NZ High Court database. As of midday today, there is 75,128 - exactly 10,000 decisions have been added to that database. I'm pretty sure that is a record for us. And for it to coincide with our 20th anniversary makes it even more special.

From a 1996 NZ High Court case - wonder what his radical views on the role of women were?

Got a dilemma for #NZLaw nerds (or anyone who likes things to be accurate!) Got a High Court decision with a date on the copy we have clearly saying 14 December. Westlaw has a copy, same everything except their copy says 17 December. Lexis does not have a copy. Too old to just go back to the Court

I'm predicting now the the NZ High Court will produce over 4000 decisions this year. Last year it did just under 3900 - but, by the MNC, the Court is running two weeks ahead of the equivalent numbering to last year. I know no one else cares about this but I love this sort of stat #nzlaw

@kiwiev.bsky.social Do you know anything about the BYD recall?

Oh dear. I need to find time this weekend to cull already processed judgments before it hits 1000 #nzlaw

Just read an older NZHC case where the Justice was trying (and failing) to say politely "what the **** was the Family Court Judge doing/thinking when they made this order" It came to me redacted so am unable to check that my suspicion that the father will have later DV cases against him is correct.

Just read a fascinating NZ case delivered yesterday that just screams, make me into an exam question. It has so many fascinating angles though I could see students going off on a tangent (like I did reading it!) For those #law nerds - [2024] NZHC 2612

NZLII is thrilled to welcome the Ruapehu District Council to our growing family of Councils putting their District Licensing Committee (ie alcohol) decisions on NZLII. The DLC databases get an incredible amount of use on NZLII - over two million uses were made of them in 2023.

Can anyone help with this acrobat issue? One of our decision generators, when I save the pdf it turns into this

AustLII on the bird site has posted the following The AARNET network operations centre has just informed us there is a chance access might be affected overnight. Apologies in advance if service is disrupted. As all NZLII's infrastructure is at AustLII then this might be us also

It has been a year since I left my job of 32 1/2 years in the University of Otago libraries (primarily in the Law Library) to concentrate solely on NZLII. Bank account has suffered but daily enjoyment of mahi increased immeasurably.

Probably a forlorn hope, but has anyone in Thorndon Wellington area found a hearing aid (and probably thought it an ear bud). Son lost one of his between his work and the gym this evening and is worried about the replacement cost, and the problem with trying to work and cope in society without it.

Just loaded a NZ High Court decision where discovery was sought of all of someone's emails and calendar items whilst in employment of X. Now if someone ever did that of my email (well they could not cause the IT people managed to delete about 250,000 of my emails) they would get 500,000+ emails!

Should not say at last - but At Last - a 2024 donation from a NZ law firm. Thank you very much Russell McVeagh. Their donation will be put towards extending our collection of the massively popular Government Gazettes - but to do it properly we need more $. Can your law firm assist?

Just noticed that we have now added 6000 NZ High Court decisions to NZLII so far this year, and 18,000 new documents to all of NZLII. These figures do reflect prioritising the processing of the older High Court collection (only c24,000 left to check so over 50% done. Though that has taken 6 years)

Do you know what would help the most? Become a regular - weekly, fortnightly or monthly donor to NZLII? Even a small amount adds up. And that guaranteed monthly donation is all I can rely on when drawing up the 2025 budget (which I am doing now). At the moment it is not even $500 a month.

Got the 2nd 2024 Corporate donation to NZLII this weekend. Again it was not from a law firm. Please NZ lawyers, legal firms and Barristers, can you possibly support NZLII? We regularly hear that 'Law Firms use NZLII all the time' - so please help us. Free still costs to produce

Have you looked at or used NZLII's new guide - JP Traffic Court guide? - austlii.community/wiki/NZJPTra... If so, do you have any comments on it? If it useful and easy to follow/understand? What guides should we next look at to help New Zealanders navigate our legal system?

NZ High Court looks like it is running a week ahead of 2023 in terms of number of decisions issued ([2024] NZHC 1814 issued today, equivalent in 2023 probably would have been 13 July*, in 2022 it was issued on 27 July * I can not actually find a [2023] NZHC 1814 - not on NZLII, Lexis, Westlaw

I know I have raved before about how excellent my current student is - and I will again! For the first 6 months of the year we loaded 5000 older NZ High Court and Court of Appeal decisions to NZLII - 80% of that was her. Cf all of 2023 we loaded 7000 This is what I put the donations towards

Just realised we have surpassed 1000 NZ Court of Appeal decisions added already to NZLII this year (in 2023 we reached that mark in November when I had 6 students working on checking and loading older cases). My (current) sole 2024 student is a treasure www.nzlii.org/nz/cases/NZCA/

We have loaded over 5000 NZ High Court cases to NZLII so far in 2024. 79% of them older decisions At this point it would seem we are on track to exceed the 8693 NZHC cases added in 2023 (70% of them older) My fantastic student will be switching to working on other NZLII things so the rate will drop

Just want to put it out there, apart from some sole practitioners who are regular donors, no NZ law firm has donated to NZLII this year. Last year 10 firms made donations - led by Stout Chambers. We hear all the time about how NZ law firms use NZLII so if you can please convince your firm to donate

With a new monthly donor to NZLII, we now get over $400 a month. Which is great, but when compared to how many uses we get, and how many documents we have is rather sad. Our recurrent monthly donors are the so important - won't you join them please? $5 or $10 per month adds up Thank you

Woohoo 70,000 decisions now in NZLII's NZ High Court database. We reached 60,000 decisions in that database 1 August 2023 so have added 10,000 decisions in under a year - due to some amazing students that were able to be hired thanks to our wonderful donors and supporters

We now have over 95,000 decisions in our various Councils District Licensing Committee databases. Jan-May 2024 those databases were accessed over 1.1 million times. If you have a contact with other NZ Councils who are not putting their decisions up on NZLII please encourage them to consider it

For those that have followed me for years will know that I am very goal orientated. I have successfully managed to talk myself out of trying to reach 600,000 decisions on NZLII this year but keep looking at the 94,200 District Licensing decisions and wonder if we can reach 100,000 in 2024? #nzlaw

Yes I have notified the marvellous IT guy at AustLII about NZLII being down this morning. Big sigh.

Our ideal funding model would be to emulate that of CanLII. $10 per lawyer in NZ per year would double our income (or more) and enable us to gradually improve NZLII so much (it would take years to get anywhere close to what CanLII has as they have had decades of great funding)

So far we have uploaded over 11,000 documents to NZLII this year and received $4613.92 in donations. Have to admit it makes it hard to do all we do with that level of donations. Extremely aware that times are really tough, but if you can help us to continue our mahi, it would be greatly appreciated

Updated NZ Journal of Environmental Law to include v.26 (2022) today on NZLII - www.nzlii.org/nz/journals/...