Canterbury District Law Society Library: Services & Charges

The Canterbury District Law Society Library provides document delivery and research services to legal practitioners.

Document delivery

Send us your citation or list of citations for case/s, articles or legislation. If we don’t have what you need in our own collection we will do our best to find it for you.

Legal research

The Library has experienced legal researchers who can undertake legal
research on your behalf.

Email library@cdls.co.nz, fax 377 2745 or telephone 377 1852 your request. Let us know deadlines and/or cost limits when making your request.

Charges (excl gst):

Document Delivery

$20 per 15 mins plus photocopying &
delivery charges*
Research


$35 per 15 mins plus photocopying &
delivery charges
(no charge first 15 mins)*

Urgent fee


$25 surcharge per request which is required within 2 hours

Printing/photocopying


20 cents per page

Photocopying by staff


30 cents per page

Scanning to email



$10 per year to register email address on CDLS Library network

Email and fax



$2.50 per 10 pages
(minimum of $2.50)

*Additional charges for subscription database searches (ie Westlaw, Lexis
Nexis) will be discussed before charging.

April 2008