The move has been welcomed by the Human Rights Commission, but greeted warily by the police union.

Mary Anne is an inspiration to the people around her as well as the community. She volunteers at a womens prison making quilts for the family's who need them, at Middlemore hospital.

Jamie Pink has pleaded not guilty to charges of possessing weapons.

A prisoner who a probation officer tried to warn was too dangerous to release will spend full sentence behind bars after bottling a man while on parole.

Serial sex offender Stewart Murray will not be subject to intensive or extended monitoring, the Department of Corrections has confirmed.

Teina Pora has filed proceedings asking the court to review the Government's decision not to add inflation to $2.5 million compensation paid to him.

A successful campaign for the release of terminally ill fraudster Vicki Letele illustrates one of society's most difficult decisions, writes David Fisher.

COMMENT: Vicki Letele is dying. She will not see her three young children grow up. That has to be a far worse punishment any court could give her.

A Hepatitis C sufferer who deliberately flicked blood in a women's face has been charged in Christchurch District Court.

New figures show that almost 250 offenders removed their electronically monitored trackers during the 2015/16 year.

Immigration New Zealand are set to remove a man convicted of beating his wife so severely - as she held their baby daughter - that he temporarily deafened her.

Dame Lowell Goddard has returned home to Wellington, two months after resigning from her role as head of a major inquiry into child abuse in Britain.

Rubbish truck runner Jane Devonshire, 19, was killed when the truck she was in crashed 40m down a hill at Birkenhead last year.

A 22-year-old man with an "extreme" meth problem has surprised a judge with his request to be sent to prison.

Foisting a young man who has serious challenges on the criminal justice system was not appropriate, a judge said today.

A severely autistic young man is being held in prison because disabilty service providers cannot find an alternative place for him to go.

The man charged after the fatal shooting of a South Auckland toddler was her father, it can be revealed.

Concerns about the leadership of the UKs inquiry into child sexual abuse were reported months before Dame Lowell Goddard resigned, Britain's MPs have been told.

Maggie meant the world to her mother Evelyn, but in August last year, the person who was meant to protect her would end the 4-year-old's life.

A man charged in relation to the fatal shooting of a South Auckland toddler has lost a bid for name suppression.

What does it mean when a person charged with murder is found not guilty by reason of insanity?

Napier man denies "sadistic" offending against teenage girlfriend.

The Judicature Modernisation Bill, a lengthy omnibus bill that aims to simplify and modernise the law around how courts operate, will pass its final hurdle tomorrow.

With gangs deeply ingrained in Hawke's Bay, a new government initiative to steer youth away from them could provide lasting benefit

Woman too scared to report attack had made complaints about three other Navy colleagues, court hears.

The Solicitor General is "looking into" a judge's decision to issue a young rugby player a discharge without conviction for assaulting four people.

COMMENT: The disproportionate amount of Maori in our criminal justice system is among the most serious problems facing New Zealand.

A human rights lawyer says the case for compensation is strong for those held in jail too long as a result of Corrections misinterpreting the law.

Not guilty plea for injecting morphine into man.

Law Society says any 19-year-old with no previous convictions would not have been jailed on the same charges.