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Fresh $110k scam claimed
Further fraud charges have been laid against a man accused of ripping off elderly people and using the money to pay court-ordered reparation to previous victims.
Further fraud charges have been laid against a man accused of ripping off elderly people and using the money to pay court-ordered reparation to previous victims.
"He's been chasing these bloody druggies for years." The father of a former Whangarei police officer facing drug charges says he's innocent.
Cross-lease property dispute escalates into costly legal stoush and ruling to demolish illegal structures.
Reports suggesting the Government could issue an immediate pardon to Teina Pora are wrong, Justice Minister Judith Collins says.
Former All Black Pita Alatini recognised the vacant and childlike expression on the face of his old mate, Teina Pora.
A reflective David Bain. Fonterra always made it clear it was in the business of making dairy products, not friends. Even its milk-in-schools programme was acknowledged as a strategy to build consumers of the future.
Justice Minister Judith Collins is wrong when she says Teina Pora cannot be pardoned by the Governor-General until he has exhausted all his appeal rights.
Government scientists say the three-year delay in linking a serial rapist to the rape and murder of Susan Burdett was because of laborious DNA techniques and an unprecedented workload because two serial rapists were active in Auckland at the same time.
The belief that convicted rapist Teina Pora is innocent is gaining momentum among key political figures.
The teenager accused of a vicious assault on homeless man Edwin Linder was on bail at the time of the attack.
The family of homeless man Edwin Linder wept in court as they faced the teenager charged with an assault that led to his death.
Justice Minister Judith Collins is seeking advice on whether to hold an independent inquiry into the Teina Pora case.
Are the criminals who appear in our courts a bunch of badly dressed, poorly spoken layabouts, as Judge Callander complains, or are they victims of a hostile system?
Grumpy old Judge Russell Callander would be appalled at the flotsam and jetsam of humanity who congregate each morning outside the big glass entranceway of Auckland District Court, paving Albert St with cigarette butts.
Professor Ian Campbell was my most astute and memorable law teacher at Victoria University of Wellington. He emphasised to his hapless young students that the law was about words: what they mean, how they work and when they can change or effect change.
Cynotech Holdings' chairman Allan Hawkins says the company was put into liquidation to protect "everybody's interests".
Israel has said it will release "heavyweight" Palestinian prisoners as part of an agreement to enter preliminary talks in Washington.
A former rich-lister is back at the High Court today, fighting to be discharged from bankruptcy - one of 24 the Official Assignee has objected to releasing.
A justice reform group is calling for 17-year-old offenders to be dealt with by the youth justice system rather than the adult criminal courts.
Jurors have begun their deliberations in the racially charged trial of a US neighbourhood watch volunteer accused of murderingunarmed black teenager Trayvon Martin.
Kerre McIvor has always wanted to serve on a jury. Courtroom dramas are the stuff of great movies and have spawned a genre of thrilling fiction.
Russian President Vladimir Putin must have been a very angry man when he sanctioned the posthumous trial of Sergei Magnitsky, who died in March 2009, for tax evasion.
Who is the volunteer Wikipedia editor who has inadvertently come to attention in a "wikispat" between Justice Minister Judith Collins and a ministry critic?
A man who used a video camera to secretly film a young girl has been sentenced to home detention at a property near a Hastings primary school.
The woman who found the video camera belonging to a man convicted of covertly filming women and children said she was left "sick to her stomach".
In her judgment against what was in many respects a phantom company on trial, Judge Jane Farish was clear about where the buck should stop, writes Fran O'Sullivan.
Building products firm Alesco's tax-avoidance battle is heading to the Supreme Court but its chances of success are slim, says one adviser.
High-profile boxing promoter David Higgins has been revealed as one of the men caught up in an assault which left his brother with a broken cheekbone and shoulder.
Ten horses were left to starve on lawyer Barry Hart's property after it was seized by the bank, leaving at least two in an emaciated state.