I'm looking for a particular case and I can not find it on NZLII. Why not and can you make it available please?

There are a number of reasons including

- the case may have a suppression order associated with it

- it may have involved a pre-trial matter

- it might be too old for us to have received it in an unreported format*

- some Courts, particularly the District and Family Courts, make only a tiny fraction of their decisions available for publication

- unfortunately many of the tribunals are no longer releasing every single decisions as was the practice in the past so there are increasing gaps in our collection

- there are some decisions of the High Court and Court of Appeal from the late 1990s and early 2000s which we are slowly processing and loading to NZLII - resource constraints mean that the process of working through over 50,000 decisions does take time.

* when a decision is reported the legal publisher has copyright in the published format and headnote. The Law Report series we have on NZLII are either out of copyright or the copyright holder granted us permission to scan and load.

-- Main.JudiEathorneGould - 11 May 2025