The High Court has ruled Whanganui District Council's gang patch ban is unlawful.

Judge Tony Couch has sent a stern message to Christchurch. Behave in this crisis or face the consequences.

Police today apologised for arresting a Tokoroa woman more than five years after she lost her job when she was wrongly charged with conspiracy to commit arson and two years after the police watchdog found the investigation was botched.

The IPCA has released the second part of its report into the handling of child abuse cases by police.

A Queen's Counsel will carry out an investigation into the publication of the names of two sexual abuse victims on a Ministry of Justice website.

Accreditation of individual expert witnesses in the courtroom would be a move in the right direction, says Dr Anna Sandiford.

A woman raped by Malcolm George Chaston long before he fulfilled his boasts to kill is angry the predator was able to go on hurting others.

The Chief High Court Judge, Justice Helen Winkelmann, says the court failed to note suppression rules on a judgement which led to two sexual abuse victims being named on the Ministry of Justice website.

An independent reviewer is to be appointed to look into the accidental publishing of two sexual abuse victims' names on the Ministry of Justice website.

The accidental publishing of two sexual abuse victims' names may have been the fault of a judge and not a clerical error as earlier thought, Justice Minister Simon Power says.

A defence lawyer's attempt to prevent Brad Callaghan's image being photographed in court has been thrown out by a judge.

A North Shore officer leaked secret information from the police computer network to his wife in a bid to help her win a custody scrap with her ex.

A company due to take over the management of the Mt Eden prison has been criticised over the death of a boy, 14, in a UK institution.