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.

COMMENT: Key says that around 10 per cent of dairy farmers could be forced off their land. I think Key's numbers are on the low side, writes Larry Williams.

Eight people who admitted or were found guilty of "homicide or related offences" avoided convictions when they appeared in court last year.

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.

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".

As far as opening deliveries go, Sasha Wass' first question was a bouncer.

Legal expenses at the Mark Lundy retrial have topped $2 million and the bill for the entire case is three times that amount.

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.

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.

The FMA is expecting a wave of appeals after deregistering 100 companies from the Financial Service Providers register, as it awaits a High Court ruling on Vivier & Co's appeal.

Labour has put its support behind an examination of the justice system that will look steering young offenders away from adult courts.

Expanding electronic monitoring of offenders could be at the expense of their rehabilitation in the community, a justice reformer says.