National Australia Bank customers seeking to reclaim "unfairly charged" exception fees have to register today.

The liquidators of fraudster Jacqui Bradley's failed business are mulling whether to try to claw back $2 million from eight investors who were paid out before her Ponzi scheme folded.

Myuran Sukumaran and Andrew Chan are, by all accounts, model prisoners.

A Court of Appeal win for a Christchurch company which dug up a carpark over a $300,000 payment reinforces the importance of clear communication in arrangements.

It's being described as a war, an arms race, an unseen struggle where the stakes are being raised and the weapons redefined each minute - the war a faceless cyber-criminal.

Arrest warrants have been issued for two trout poachers who failed to turn up to court for sentencing.

District Court judges have converted almost $100 million worth of fines into community work in the past four years when offenders have been unable to pay what they owe.

One of the more disturbing emerging trends is the number of New Zealanders being arrested in foreign countries for drug trafficking.

Lawyers are raising money to enable a much-loved Auckland court social worker to keep doing good work after her church-funded job was "disestablished".

The Crown says one of the defendants in an ad scam trial was a "parasite" but the defence claims some people who bought ads from him were just "stupid".

A Chinese tourist who killed a friend in a rental car crash last week is “bereft” over the incident, a court has been told.

The police shooting of an unarmed black man has sparked another potential flashpoint in the United States.

British judges have been forced to bring in their own packed lunches and even wash up after themselves.

The son of the Maori King now has a conviction against his name after the Crown was successful in its High Court appeal.

There are many ways of telling whether someone is telling the truth. Unfortunately they do not include the way they look and sound, writes Robert Fisher.

Two lawyers have been struck off in separate decisions following multiple acts of misconduct.

The FMA says it would prefer to settle its civil action against six businessmen associated with Hanover Finance, and its chief executive says he is "still hopeful" a deal can be reached.

The fight to clear his name had been gruelling, but he was never prepared to give up, John Banks said at a press conference this afternoon.

Amanda Banks has emerged as an extremely good wife to John Banks with her "obsessive" detective work turning up crucial evidence which led to the former Act Leader's electoral fraud conviction being overturned today.

A man accused of killing a woman in their Auckland home can now be named.

A man has been sentenced to six and a half years in jail after slashing a pregnant woman’s throat and bashing another woman with a hammer.

Cure Kids has no evidence to support its battle for trademark rights in the High Court, says the Australian charity which claims it owns the Red Nose Day image.

A fugitive couple wanted on fraud and sex charges are believed to have fled the country using false passports.

The boss of an art school that hired Raurimu massacre killer Stephen Anderson as a tutor is "seriously shocked" the school did so without knowing his history.

Chinese President Xi Jinping discussed his Government's "fox hunt" for economic fugitives with Prime Minister John Key this week as part of talks about "legal co-operation".

A coroner says law changes are urgently needed to get more dangerous drivers off the road, after an inept foreign driver caused a crash killing two motorcyclists.

When a bank teller accidentally transferred $140,000 into the account of an Auckland chef, "temptation proved too much".

Balcony murder accused Gable Tostee will have to give up his former playboy lifestyle for strict bail conditions that prevent him from using the dating app Tinder, drinking and partying.

Accused killer Gable Tostee is expected to find out today whether he will be granted bail.