Law Manual Online is a free pool of plain language legal information. It is designed to empower everyday people in Aotearoa New Zealand to know their legal rights.

Are you in a tricky situation? Do you feel done wrong by? It’s likely that the law has something to do with it and that the Law Manual Online can help you figure it out. Law Manual Online is about making the law easy to understand so you can decide your next steps when you’re dealing with a problem.

Law Manual Online contains a wide range of information from Community Law’s easy-to-read manuals and guides. It includes content from:

• Community Law Manual
• Lag Law: Your Rights in Prison and On Remand
• Pregnancy Rights
• Rights at School in Kura (formerly Problems at School).

You can buy physical books from our online bookshop.

The publications team at Community Law Wellington and Hutt Valley created and take care of the Law Manual Online and all of the listed guides. We want the Manual to be useful to everyone, especially those most negatively affected by capitalism, colonisation, racism, sexism, ableism and all the other systems of oppression causing harm to our communities.

We are a not-for-profit charity and we are not part of the government. Our content is created for the community, by the community. If you have any feedback or notice any important content areas that we’ve missed, please let us know.

Email us at publications@wclc.org.nz or write to us at PO Box 24005, Wellington 6142.