
Caseload: More heat for Crown over Banks miscarriage of justice
Auckland QC Paul Edmund Dacre - who led the fatally flawed prosecution of John Banks - is not out of the fire, writes Jock Anderson.
Auckland QC Paul Edmund Dacre - who led the fatally flawed prosecution of John Banks - is not out of the fire, writes Jock Anderson.
It comes after an investor appeals a High Court decision ordering him to repay $454,000 of "fictitious profits".
A US judge compared three children to cult leader Charles Manson and sent them to live in a juvenile home because they refused to have lunch with their father.
Jock Anderson remembers the late Sir Ronald Davison and takes a look behind the scenes of the legal profession.
Interest rate swaps sold to a North Island motel operator were unsuitable for it and "one-way traffic for the benefit" of Westpac, says a witness in a $3 million lawsuit.
An extradition order granted for man accused of a cold case killing in Switzerland has been appealed and is now in the hands of the Justice Minister.
Jock Anderson takes a look behind the scenes of the legal profession.
CaseLoad must remain tight-lipped about his part in last week's appointment of two new High Court judges - lest nosey parkers get the wrong idea...
Convicted former Capial + Merchant boss Neal Nicholls will forfeit assets worth $1.8m to the police.
Len Brown is being urged by a senior councillor to accept a court ruling on controversial wharf extensions and instruct Ports of Auckland to do the same.
Police are slagged all the time for being revenue gatherers when they write tickets; now they're being criticised for trying to stop the offence before it happens, writes Kerre McIvor.
Jock Anderson on the late Bill Heast's will and his family division, the best places to be seen and heard, and more.
Michael October is not a rapist and murderer but he carries that stigma with him every day of his life, writes Jarrod Gilbert.
One of Baltimore's most revered lawyers, William "Billy" Murphy, is coming to town to speak at a conference in Auckland.
The hopes of euthanasia supporters appear to rely on Act leader David Seymour and the luck of the draw after both Prime Minister John Key and Labour chief Andrew Little ruled out putting up a bill on the issue.
It did not take long. Just three days, if that, for the politicians to get voluntary euthanasia well and truly off the political agenda, writes John Armstrong.
A leading former High Court judge has been appointed to assess Teina Pora's compensation claim.
Two bandana-clad men have been charged with disorderly behaviour likely to cause violence after going to a college in Mosgiel in school time to confront a pupil.
A whip-around of holders of South Canterbury Finance preference shares has raised more than $150,000.
The biggest investor in one of Allan Hubbard's shambolic business vehicles has won about $372,000 in court costs from it, further diluting the amount available to 300 others.
Former Auckland Mayor John Banks is screaming blue murder, demanding the Solicitor-General stand down after the Court of Appeal overturned his conviction for filing a false electoral return after the....
A SCF investor who is helping fund a legal probe says he bought preference shares on the back of statements the company made about its prospects only months before it collapsed.
Some South Canterbury Finance preference shareholders played with 'fool's gold' due to a lack of proper information, says one broker.
Out-of-pocket South Canterbury Finance investors will meet today in Auckland to join others rallying behind a probe looking into possible legal action.
Teina Pora will make his boxing debut in an amateur bout in five weeks.
Michael Erceg's brother has been denied access to documents that would reveal who got what from trusts set up by the late multimillionaire and liquor magnate worth $620 million.
In his first major interview, Teina Pora says he forgives the police who charged him with the 1992 rape and murder of Susan Burdett.
Herald reporter Phil Taylor wrote the first story claiming a miscarriage of justice in the Susan Burdett murder case. Now he sets out how the system went wrong.