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10 Austl. L. Libr. 37 (2002)
New Zealand Law Reports: A Bibliographic Survey

handle is hein.journals/auslwlib10 and id is 39 raw text is: New Zealand Law Reports: A Bibliographic Survey Alan Edwards Law Librarian, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand INTRODUCTION This article aims to give readers outside New Zealand an overview of New Zealand law reports, old and new. Since relatively little has yet appeared uniquely in electronic form, the emphasis is on printed materials. The article does not deal with related finding tools such as digests, citators, indexes and databases. For details on other aspects, see Further Reading at the end of this article. GENERAL SERIES OF LAW REPORTS As in Australia, the earliest published accounts of cases decided by the courts appeared in newspapers, often in considerable detail. There has not yet been a movement to transcribe this material and place it on the Web, as there has for some Australian jurisdictions.' A bibliography of holdings of newspapers in New Zealand libraries has been published.2 Some District Law Society Libraries and local archives hold court notebooks of early judges or collections of early newspaper clippings relating to the work of individual judges or courts. For _ example, the Hocken Library3 in Dunedin holds such material on deposit from the Otago District Law Society relating to early judges H.S. Chapman, J.S. Williams and F.J. Burgess. Many archives report summaries of their holdings to the National Register of Archives and Manuscripts (NRAM).4 Details of notable trials also appear in books and pamphlets, particularly in the nineteenth century. Although some New Zealand cases from 1878 onwards appear in the Australian Law Times, the earliest local attempt at conventional law reporting5 was carried 'http://law.mg.edu.au/scnsw/, http://www.law.mg.edu.au/sctas/index.html 2 Harvey, D. R. 1987, Union List of Newspapers Preserved in Libraries, Newspaper Offices, Local Authority Offices and Museums in New Zealand, National Library of New Zealand, Wellington. 3 http://www.library.otago.ac.nz/libs/hocken/index.html 4 httlp://www.nram.org.nz/ 5 Chapman, Frederick R. 1933, 'Law reporting in New Zealand. I.-Early editors and Reporters', New ZealandLaw Journal vol. 9, p. 53. Australian LAW LIBRARIAN 10(1)2002

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