Services to the Legal Profession or the Wider Legal Market
Year  | Project Title | Grant Amount |
| 1993 | Research: Information Needs of the Profession (Taylor Baines Report) | $ 154,920.00 |
| Description | Research on the information requirements of the legal profession in order to determine a strategy for the future structure and function of the law society libraries. | | Applicant: | New Zealand Law Society | | Organisation: | New Zealand Law Society |
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| 1993 | Taxation Database for the Briefcase Legal Database | $ 15,000.00 |
| Description | Addition of approx 1200 taxation cases to the Briefcase Legal Database. Project to include indexing, data input, proofing, computer and management costs. | | Applicant: | Law Library Management Ltd | | Organisation: | Law Library Management Ltd |
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| 1993 | Expansion of LINX Database | $ 5,000.00 |
| Description | To enable expansion of LINX to take in legal writings not yet covered, to manage backlog of indices 1986-1993. The project will include consultation with university and law society libriaries. | | Applicant: | Auckland District Law Society Library | | Organisation: | New Zealand Law Librarians Association |
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| 1993 | Research: Reform of Complaints and Disciplinary Procedures for the Legal Profession | $ 50,000.00 |
| Description | Research into, consultation about, legislation for and implementation of a reformed system of discipline within the legal profession | | Applicant: | New Zealand Law Society | | Organisation: | New Zealand Law Society |
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| 1995 | Alternative Dispute Resolution and Mediation Resources for Practitioners | $ 5,000.00 |
| Description | Employment of ADR consultant to draft ADR related materials, e.g. model mediation and ADR clauses, mediation agreement, practical guidelines for lawyers and pamphlets for clients. | | Applicant: | Disputes Resolution Committee | | Organisation: | New Zealand Law Society |
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| 1995 | Privacy Act: Development of Code of Practice and Guidance Rules for the Legal Profession | $ 20,250.00 |
| Description | "Employment of a specialist to develop a code of practice and/or guidance rules for the legal profession with a view to the draft code being submitted to the Privacy Commissioner before the end of 1995.
Aim for the code to cover the entire profession - aimed at clarifying how the Informaiton Privacy Principles apply in particular legal practice situations" | | Applicant: | New Zealand Law Society | | Organisation: | New Zealand Law Society |
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| 1995 | Development of Specialist Training for Law Librarians | $ 11,000.00 |
| Description | "Establishment of a framework for a course of specialist training for law librarians based on a British course.
Funding to enable the applicant to attend the British Conference and investigate the British and Irsih Association of Law Library training course in London to obtain background knowledge" | | Applicant: | Margaret Greville, The Law Library | | Organisation: | School of Law, University of Canterbury |
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| 1995 | NZLS Scholarship Capital Supplements - Cleary Memorial Prize & Centennial Scholarship | $ 30,000.00 |
| Description | "To boost the capital of the three scholarship funds below to enable consistent future payments:
Increase of the Cleary Memorial Prize (by $22,820) bringing it up to $30,000, the Centennial Scholarship (by $27,300) bringing it up to $40,000, and the Centennial Maori Scholarship (by $22,000) bringing it up to $40,000." | | Applicant: | New Zealand Law Society | | Organisation: | New Zealand Law Society |
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| 1995 | Re-Evaluation of Audit Procedures for the NZ Legal Profession | $ 120,000.00 |
| Description | Independent re-evaluation of the new audit scheme proposed by NZLS so that there could be a complete outside review not only of the proposals for the new scheme and the justification for them, but also the efficacy of, and justification for, the whole statutory audit regime, particularly having regard to the cost of it to the profession. | | Applicant: | New Zealand Law Society | | Organisation: | New Zealand Law Society |
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| 1995 | Review of the Auckland District Law Society Legal Practice Manual | $ 10,000.00 |
| Description | "The Legal Practice Manual is currently in its third edition and is contained in 5 volumes. A decision has to be made as to whether a 4th edition is required. Each chapter will be reviewed and updated.
Nearly every firm has a copy in its library and it is a widely used practice aid. It is also the standard text for students in the Legal Executive Course." | | Applicant: | Auckland District Law Society | | Organisation: | Auckland District Law Society |
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| 1996 | Polls of the Public, Lawyers and Law Firms on Delivery of Legal Services | $ 67,120.00 |
| Description | "Polls of the public (telephone survey, sample 500), individual lawyers (self completion questionnaire, sample 500), law firms (self completion, sample 100-420 (to be determined). Objectives are:
- determining public perceptions of the legal profession in general, their attitudes and concerns, such as quality of service, mode of service deliver
- determining lawyers' attitudes and perceptions of key issues and potential solutions
- determining the focus of Society strategies which have a public interest element
- discovering what lawyers want from the Society in the future eg what focus, functions, structure." | | Applicant: | New Zealand Law Society | | Organisation: | New Zealand Law Society |
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| 1996 | Development of Information Services for the Legal Profession | $ 57,500.00 |
| Description | Business plan for the development of Information Services for the legal profession to be undertaken by a small sub-committee of the NZ Library Committee consisting of Helga Arlington and Ed Hudson to research the most useful investment that the NZLF could made at the present time to improve services available to lawyers in NZ | | Applicant: | New Zealand Law Society | | Organisation: | New Zealand Law Society |
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| 1996 | Analysis of Training and Educational Needs of Legal Executives in New Zealand | $ 36,400.00 |
| Description | A nationwide survey and analysis of the present and future training and educational requirements of New Zealand Legal Executives | | Applicant: | NZ Institute of Legal Executives Inc. | | Organisation: | New Zealand Institute of Legal Executives Inc |
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| 1997 | Review of Headnotes for the LINX Database | $ 8,400.00 |
| Description | Review of Headnotes of older judgments recorded in LINX database, reported in NZLR as earlier headnotes are sometimes inadequate. | | Applicant: | LINX Database Committee | | Organisation: | Auckland District Law Society |
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| 1997 | Implementing EEO | $ 110,400.00 |
| Description | To implement the recommendations of the Report on EEO "Towards 2000 - Implementing EEO" commissioned by the ADLS and presented to the Society during April 1996. | | Applicant: | EEO Committee | | Organisation: | Auckland District Law Society |
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| 1998 | Computerised Index Access to the ODLS Library | $ 9,220.00 |
| Description | Computerised indexing of the ODLS library to improve access to the collection and to position the ODLS so tht it can provide service in a changing environment and to make available the methodology to others. | | Applicant: | Otago District Law Society | | Organisation: | Otago District Law Society |
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| 1998 | LINX Database: Year 2000 Compliance | $ 88,000.00 |
| Description | Replacement of the non Y2K compliant system used currently to build the LINX database with an appropriate Y2K compliant system in three law society library locations. | | Applicant: | LINX Database Committee | | Organisation: | New Zealand Law Librarians Association |
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| 1998 | Trust Account Partner Programme Cost Subsidisation - 1999-2001 | $ 78,400.00 |
| Description | "The Trust Account Partner programme is compulsory training for solicitors in practice on their own account who take up duties as the ""Trust Account Partner"". NZLS is seeking Foundation funding to reduce the cost of this training to the participants by subsidising 50% of the course fee.
Note they are asking for ongoing funding. They propose the Foundation provide an annual grant for as long as the TAP programme runs, with annual pre-budget reviews to determine the level of funding anticipated for the forthcoming year. They have based this year's application on 65 participants." | | Applicant: | New Zealand Law Society | | Organisation: | New Zealand Law Society |
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| 1998 | United Nations Secondment - Emma Huston | $ 4,500.00 |
| Description | Three month secondment for Emma Huston to the United Nations Divison for the advancement of women in New York. | | Applicant: | Auckland Women Lawyers Association | | Organisation: | Auckland Women Lawyers Association |
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| 1999 | Information Needs of the Profession - LILS Committee Investigation | $ 120,000.00 |
| Description | Costs of the LILS committee (acting on behalf of all Law Society Districts) in regard to exploration of the information needs for the profession project in conjunction with the Law Foundation and the Department for Courts, and particularly the costs of the preliminary trial for establishing an electronic judgments database. | | Applicant: | New Zealand Law Society - LILS Committee | | Organisation: | New Zealand Law Society |
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| 2001 | Specialisation Scheme - Feasibility Study and Report | $ 38,875.00 |
| Description | An investigation and report by Christopher Roper on the feasibility of establishing a specialisation scheme. This will include a five day visit to New Zealand centres to talk to practioners. | | Applicant: | Family Law Section | | Organisation: | New Zealand Law Society |
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| 2001 | Legal Portal Project - Scoping Review: Phase I | $ 13,050.00 |
| Description | Phase I of a scoping review undertaken by Paul Reynolds of McGovern Associates, to provide a strategic overview of the Information Needs project | | Applicant: | Legal Information (NZ) Limited | | Organisation: | Legal Information (NZ) Limited |
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| 2001 | Legal Portal Project - Seeding Funding | $ 1,416,642.24 |
| Description | Seeding funding for administration costs, directors' expenses and establishment of a website for public consultation on the project. | | Applicant: | Legal Information (NZ) Limited | | Organisation: | Legal Information (NZ) Limited |
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| 2005 | NZ Law Students' Association Website Development | $ 2,500.00 |
| Description | "Funding for:
1. NZLSA website
2. National Information Bulletin
3. Australian Law Students Assn Conference representation" | | Applicant: | The New Zealand Law Students' Association | | Organisation: | New Zealand Law Librarians Association |
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| 2009 | New Zealand Uniform Guide to Legal Citation - NZ Law Style Guide | $ 15,000.00 |
| Description | Creation and publishing of the first New Zealand Uniform Guide to legal citation, for use by the Courts, Practioners, Law Reporters, Legal Publishers, Students and Researchers. | | Applicant: | Justice Robert Chambers and Dr Geoff McLay | | Organisation: | Faculty of Law, Victoria University of Wellington |
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| 2015 | Retaining Graduates in the Legal Profession | $ 24,547.00 |
| Description | A variety of employers and representative bodies have expressed concern that talented graduates are leaving the legal profession in the early stages of their careers. This application is for funding to enable the applicant to spend four months in 2016 finding out more about the experience of graduates in the profession and the factors that influence their decisions whether to remain in practice or not. The results (to be shared with employers, and published in LawTalk, online and hopefully elsewhere) will help employers develop more effective strategies for retaining graduate talent. This will be to the long term benefit of the profession and the public, insofar as the quality and affordability of the legal services that the profession provides to the public depends on who it is that practises law. | | Applicant: | Josh Pemberton | | Organisation: | Individual Application |
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| 2017 | Gender of counsel appearing in the Supreme Court and Court of Appeal - Stage 1 2012-2017 | $ 7,000.00 |
| Description | The research objectives are to establish:
• what percentage of counsel appearing before the Court of Appeal and Supreme Court in the last 6 years were female;
• what percentage of those female counsel appeared as senior counsel;
• what percentage of those female counsel appeared as junior counsel; and
• whether the proportion of women appearing as either senior or junior counsel in those courts has changed over the last 6 years.
| | Applicant: | Ms Melissa Perkin | | Organisation: | New Zealand Bar Association |
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| 2018 | Culture in the Legal Profession Report A PROJECT CO-FUNDED BY THE BORRIN FOUNDATION | $ 10,000.00 |
| Description | Women from the New Zealand Women's Law Journal, with the support of the Women Lawyers' Associations (Otago, Christchurch, Wellington and Auckland) are running a project to engage people of all genders in the legal profession in New Zealand about sexual harassment, bullying and gender equality and produce a solutions-focused report capturing ideas for change. The report will be passed on to the Law Society, Minister of Justice, law firms, law faculties and other interested and related organisations and parties.
We will market the findings of the report directly, with the hope that it will be a useful resource for organisations and individuals when thinking about how to tackle difficult and longstanding problems in the profession.
We have gathered initial ideas and views from workshops held across the country, and from our webpage. We have now formulated a survey to gain broader reach, which has over 400 responses already since its creation on 18 September.
The Borrin Foundation is funding half of this project. | | Applicant: | Ana Lenard | | Organisation: | Individual Application |
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| 2019 | Gender of Counsel Appearing in the Supreme Court and Court of Appeal - Stage 2 - 2018-2019 | $ 1,000.00 |
| Description | The New Zealand Bar Association seeks funding to enable an additional year of data to be collected by a law student, so that an analysis can be completed as to the impact of the New Zealand Bar Association/New Zealand Law Society Gender Equitable Engagement and Instruction Policy (launched in December 2017) on the gender ratios of counsel appearing in higher courts. This will add further research and data to the original research for the New Zealand Bar Association's 2018 Report "Gender Ratio of Counsel Appearing in Higher Courts" and will result in additional findings and a revised report.
Refer to 2017/44/33 for Stage 1 of this work covering years 2012-2017.
| | Applicant: | Ms Melissa Perkin | | Organisation: | New Zealand Bar Association |
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| 2020 | Work-related distress in the New Zealand legal profession: how are lawyers and judges impacted by indirect trauma | $ 73,000.00 |
| Description | The research has four key aims:
1. To understand the prevalence of vicarious trauma experienced by New Zealand legal professionals (lawyers and judges).
2. To understand what risk-mitigation strategies professionals are currently engaging in (and how effective they consider them to be).
3. To assess the viability and receptiveness of the profession for alternative risk-mitigation strategies.
4. To assess the viability of alternative risk mitigation strategies in a New Zealand context (including cost and implementation and enforcement/monitoring).
Broadly speaking vicarious trauma in a legal contexts refers to the cumulative effects of exposure to clients' trauma/distress or traumatic material relating legal proceedings and representation. | | Applicant: | Mrs Georgina Woods-Child | | Organisation: | School of Law, AUT University |
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