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M. K.
Bachelor
★★★★★
“The working was laid out step by step. I could follow it well enough to answer questions on it myself afterwards, which was the actual point.”
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VERIFIED WRITER · CITATION, CASE NOTES & LEGAL WRITING DESK
LLB, MA · Citation, Case Notes & Legal Writing · Wellington
★★★★★ rated 4.9 across 286 briefs
Lachlan audits citations and case notes, and separates ratio from obiter in drafts that treat every sentence of a judgment as binding.
Free quote in 30 minutes. No obligation until you confirm.
LACHLAN'S BRIEFS START FROM
NZ$72
A 2,000-word brief booked ahead. Every figure fixed in NZD before you pay.
Secure & confidential. No spam.
286
Student briefs completed on this desk
4.9/5
Average rating students leave Lachlan
11 yrs
Practice and tutoring experience
98%
Returned before the submission deadline
72%
Come back and ask for them by name
QUALIFICATIONS
Degree-qualified in the subject they take.
University of Otago · 2012
Testamur and full transcript sighted against photo ID in the same name.
Confirmed and re-checked annually
Qualified while working professionally in the field before moving into academic support.
Passed on entry · 2014
A past task sheet from a NZ paper, criteria sheet attached, clock running. First three orders second-read line by line.
APA 7th · Harvard
APA 7th tested on its own as the house standard, with Harvard signed off separately for papers that ask for it.
There is no accreditation body for academic writing, so nobody can hold one — including us. What can be checked is a degree, a professional membership and a test result, and those are the only things published here. How the whole panel is vetted sits on the our experts page.
EXPERIENCE
Time in the field before they ever tutored a NZ student. It shows in how the working is laid out.
2013 – 2017
Building the professional grounding this desk now draws on — direct, hands-on work in the field before any teaching or academic support role.
2017 – 2019
Deepening specialisation in citation, case notes & legal writing, the same area most of their briefs now sit in.
2017 – 2020
Where the pattern they now works to came from. Students were getting the right answer and still losing marks, because the method was never visible on the page.
2019 – now
286 student briefs across every NZ university and Level 5 to 7 diploma providers.
6 yrs
in professional practice
5 yrs
tutoring NZ papers
286
student briefs completed
6
NZ universities covered
SERVICES
6 services cover almost everything that reaches this desk. Every figure is fixed in NZD before you pay.
Facts, issue, rule, application and conclusion built around the actual NZ authority in point.
FROM NZ$115
Statute and case law applied to a fact scenario, issue by issue, with no overseas substitutions.
FROM NZ$120
Position taken early and argued through statute, case law and policy in NZ terms.
FROM NZ$120
Ratio and obiter separated, with the holding stated precisely against the reported judgment.
FROM NZ$85
Submissions structured the way a bench expects to hear them, authority by authority.
FROM NZ$160
Your own draft checked for authority, citation format and argument structure.
FROM NZ$40
Business and management essays with only a light legal component go to the business desk. Criminology and pure policy briefs with no case law go to the essays desk. Lachlan does not take a brief outside their field, and you get that answer the same day rather than a late reallocation.
HOW THE WORK COMES BACK
The same sequence whether it is one question or a full assignment.
They reads the marking rubric before the question, because that is what says where the marks are weighted.
The approach is named and the standard or framework it sits under is stated, so the method is visible from line one.
Reasoning, working and answer on separate lines. One slip costs a step, not the whole question.
What the result means in context, in the sentence the rubric is waiting for. Reports attached with delivery.
Send the task sheet and the criteria sheet. Inside thirty minutes you get a yes or a straight no, a fixed NZD figure, and their read of what the question is actually testing. If they are booked, you get another law writer and the reason.
WHAT THEY HAVE ALREADY WORKED ON
Paper codes students named themselves. Most briefs run 1,500–2,500 words or an equivalent problem set.
Send the code and the task sheet anyway. Lachlan covers law across every NZ university and Level 5 to 7 diploma provider, and the table above is only what students have named publicly. If the paper turns out to sit with another specialist, you are told which one and why — see the full panel of verified writers.
REVIEWS, INCLUDING THE ONES THAT STING
Collected once results land, attached to Lachlan rather than the site, and the low ones stay up.
4.9
★★★★★
Mean across all 286 completed briefs
Not a selection. Every finished brief is rated.
Anything at three or below is read by a second person, and a slipping average stops new work reaching .
M. K.
Bachelor
★★★★★
“The working was laid out step by step. I could follow it well enough to answer questions on it myself afterwards, which was the actual point.”
S. R.
Master's
★★★★★
“Delivered ahead of the deadline with a clear explanation attached. I understood why the answer was right, not just what it was.”
T. L.
Bachelor
★★★★☆
“Strong work and it was early. A couple of formatting details I had to fix myself, but the substance was solid throughout.”
A. P.
Level 6 diploma
★★★★★
“I sent one question to see what it looked like. The approach was clear enough that I finished the rest of the set myself and got them right.”
J. N.
Bachelor
★★★★★
“Caught an error in my own working that would have cost me real marks. That alone was worth it.”
H. C.
Master's
★★★★☆
“Technically right and on time. One structural note I would have liked addressed sooner, but it was fixed on the revision without any fuss.”
More student feedback sits on our reviews page.
A rating at checkout measures how the delivery felt. A rating after the marker replies measures whether the work held up. Lachlan's 4.9 is the second kind, which is also why it moves slowly.