Police have apologised to Malcolm Rewa's victims over the length of time it took to catch the serial rapist and prevent his offending.

We observe strict court rules in New Zealand that try to ensure juries are not "contaminated" by reading or hearing anything outside the courtroom. It is time to ask whether our courts try too hard.

I have reluctantly concluded that NZ does suffer a rape culture. Men can commit sex crimes and get away with it, writes Rodney Hide.

Jurors who deliberately flout court rules to research cases online will face criminal conviction under proposed new laws.

A judge has refused to place a court order over a 9000sq m property in a picturesque Queenstown settlement as a liquidator chases $740k used to buy the land.

A High Court judge found a leading firm of architects does not have a "watertight" defence in a leaky building case over a Waiheke Island house.

Editorial: If diplomats aren't going to be held to account for offences against the citizens and law of their host country, the country they belong to could at least be named.

Capital + Merchant Finance's out-of-pocket investors finally have some good news seven years after its collapse with an $18.5 million settlement announced today.

A terminally-ill divorcee faces being evicted from her home despite being owed nearly $1 million, after her case was put off for three months while a judge is on holiday.

Justice Minister Judith Collins has ruled out reversing the burden of proof in domestic violence cases - one of the key recommendations in the first report of the Glenn Inquiry.

Dangle some money before hardened lefties and they'll sit up and purr every time, writes Bob Jones.

The man suing Huka Lodge's owner for half the assets has convinced the High Court a caveat claiming he has an interest in the property should stay in place.

Sir Owen Glenn has nudged New Zealand one step closer towards a less adversarial justice system for domestic violence cases in a bid to fix a "broken" court system.

A former Forsyth Barr investment adviser who poured $460,000 into a now-collapsed internet provider failed to impose discipline on the company.

Works by 12 prisoners are on show in Wanganui's Davis Central City Library this month, in an exhibition themed Aotearoa - Our Land, Our People.

The man charged with throwing mud over Act MP John Banks as he walked into an Auckland court says he waited more than 20 years for revenge.

Hundreds of millions of people across Europe will be forced to change the way they use the internet, a key Google adviser says.

A lawyer took to wearing a flea collar on her ankle at one of the country's biggest courts while others reported maggots falling from the ceiling, an inquiry hears.

A failed IT project to modernise the courts has crippled reforms that were meant to take advantage of the system, the Chief District Court Judge has said.

Serial protester Castislav ‘Sam’ Bracanov has been charged over an incident in which mud was thrown over Act MP John Banks.

A Rimutaka inmate and prison guards were attacked because the offenders believed the prisoner had "narked" to guards, a court has heard.

The treasurer for John Banks' failed 2010 Auckland mayoralty bid did not know two sizeable donations to the campaign team were from Kim Dotcom.

An ex-All Black accused of managing businesses while bankrupt allegedly removed the director of one of these companies when he refused to provide signed blank cheques.

John Banks’ trial on a charge of filing a false electoral return got off to a dirty start today when a man threw a bucket of mud at him as he walked into court.

Police have made a formal bid in the High Court to seize property they allege is associated with a failed finance company director.