Judgments of the Court from 1 July 2006 are also available on this site and can be located using the decision finder.
From time to time the Court decides cases that have general importance for practitioners of employment law as well as for the particular parties. These will include some judgments of the full Court and others examining and applying new law. These are listed in the Decisions of public interest section.
From 1 July 2025 the Employment Court will begin publishing its judgments on the Judicial Decisions Online(external link) database (JDO). The Ministry of Justice maintains JDO, a searchable database of court judgments. We will also continue to publish our judgments on the Employment Court website.
From 3 June 2025 the Employment Court commenced publishing their judgments 24 hours after the delivery date, or the next business day, unless otherwise directed by a judge. Decisions of public interest may be published earlier, as directed by a judge.
Reserved judgments will usually appear on this site no earlier than 24 hours after delivery to the parties.
Oral judgments will appear on this site as soon as possible after they have been typed following oral delivery.
All judges aim to deliver their judgments as quickly as possible. The judges of the Employment Court expect that 90% of judgments will be delivered within three months of the last day of the hearing or receipt of the last submissions, whichever is later. The three-month period does not include court vacations or other periods of judges’ leave. A judge may sometimes tell the parties at the hearing that the judgment will take longer than three months to deliver because the case is complex or for other appropriate reasons.
Judgments, including those from before July 2006, can also be obtained from a commercial supplier - Westlaw Ltd, CCH iKnowConnect or LexisNexis; or using the NZLII search box below.
If placing a copy of a judgment obtained from NZLII before the court, please access a copy of the decision as issued rather than an HTML copy. You can do this by clicking the "download" button on the HTML version of the decision.
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