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Smalley: Crown must apologise over Pora
COMMENT: Along with compensation must come an apology, writes Rachel Smalley. Someone, on behalf of the crown, must say sorry to Teina Pora for the failures of our justice system.
COMMENT: Along with compensation must come an apology, writes Rachel Smalley. Someone, on behalf of the crown, must say sorry to Teina Pora for the failures of our justice system.
Blessie Gotingco's family are considering filing a civil case against the Department of Corrections for wrongful death - and are calling on all New Zealanders to help them.
COMMENT: Inadequate court sentences don't deter people, writes Barry Soper. Perhaps court martials are the answer.
The wind up of Bradley's B'on Financial Services has netted little return for Jacqui Bradley's 28 victims.
Although the law doesn't allow it as a defence, lawyers are still making provocation claims in homicide trials, a legal expert says.
New figures reveal a fall in the number of people keeping their name from the public.
COMMENT: This is about Chinese committing crimes in China. They knew the consequences. They're fugitives on the run. They should be dealt with under China's law, writes Larry Williams.
COMMENT: We must replace the criminal justice approach with health interventions, just as they did 15 years ago in Portugal, writes Dr Lance O'Sullivan and Tuari Potiki.
Brutal cross-examination process in criminal trials has been acknowledged as a key reason why sexual violence victims receive so little justice in the legal system, writes Catriona MacLennan.
Two lawyers and sons of former Chief Justices have caught Business Insider's eye.
It is almost 18 months since Muhammad Rizalman bin Ismail, a military attache, attacked Wellington woman Tania Billingsley in her home.
Two High Court scraps with one of the country's most notorious career criminals cost taxpayers $368,000.
New Zealand's creative industry looks set for a shakeup with a review of the Copyright Act tipped.
The only person convicted of the Megaupload copyright charges over which Kim Dotcom is facing extradition has walked free from prison in the US.
Justice Minister Amy Adams has conceded that the latest inquiry into whether David Bain should be paid compensation is taking longer than expected.
John Roughan has been forced to release recordings of his conversations with PM John Key as part of a court case relating to the "teapot tapes".
A law change could cover criminals due to arrive in NZ by charter plane this week - but serious offenders already deported here won't be monitored.
Figures showed 96 second strikes had been issued in courts since the legislation was introduced, with the number increasing each year.
Almost 100 offenders have been issued final warnings under the country's "three strikes" law, but no offender has reached a third qualifying offence.
Detectives sought the banking, telephone and travel records of author and journalist Nicky Hager without any search order or other legal power.
A multi-million-dollar fraudster "motivated by naked greed" has finally admitted his guilt and said he was ashamed of his behaviour.
The liquidators of an Auckland building company that collapsed owing more than $4 million believe its director is somewhere in Europe.
A British developer has come up with an ingenious way of getting rid of annoying spam emails and getting revenge on the people sending them in one fell swoop.
Young people sent to a state-run boot camp on Great Barrier Island were made to dig what they were told would be their own graves and concerned staff blowing the whistle were ignored.
After 68 weekly columns of irreverent fun, frivolity, jolly japes and an occasional fact or two, CaseLoad is spiked from the NZ Herald as of today, writes Jock Anderson.
A tiny surplus has been paid to some investors in one of Allan Hubbard's failed investment vehicles.
A spike in children as young as 10 involved in serious crime is pushing police and the justice system to develop new programmes to keep young people out of the courtroom and away from a life in prison.