Compensation for personal injury in New Zealand (The Woodhouse Report)

Read the full text of the 1967 Woodhouse Report, which launched New Zealand’s no-fault accident compensation system, on the New Zealand Legal Information Institute website.

Accident Compensation Corporation

Visit the official ACC website.

Ngā Kōti o Aotearoa: Courts of New Zealand

Visit the New Zealand court system’s official website.

Te Aka Matua o te Ture: Law Commission

Visit the Te Aka Matua o te Ture: Law Commission official website.

Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision

Listen to a 1944 recording of Owen Woodhouse discussing naval patrols in the Adriatic Sea, together with sound and video recordings related to his later career.

Sir Owen Woodhouse papers. Archives New Zealand. Agency AGGK.

McLay, G. ‘Sir Owen Woodhouse and the making of New Zealand law.’ Victoria University of Wellington Law Review 54, 2023: 857–81

Palmer, G. Compensation for incapacity: a study of law and social change in New Zealand and Australia. Wellington and Melbourne, 1979

Palmer, G. ‘Eulogy for Rt Hon Sir Owen Woodhouse.’ New Zealand Journal of Employment Relations, vol. 39 no.1, February 2014: 87–91

Spiller, P. New Zealand Court of Appeal, 1958–1996: a history. Wellington, 2002

Woodhouse, O. Government under the law. Wellington, 1979

Woodhouse, O. ‘The judge in today’s society.’ In Auckland Law School centenary lectures. Ed. L.C.B. Gower. Auckland, 1983: 87–103

Woodhouse, O. A personal affair. Taupō, 2004