A tribunal should take over responsibility for decisions on the detention and status of mentally ill offenders, the Law Commission says.

Former Five Star director Anthony Bowden says he is genuinely sorry about the distress caused to investors following the collapse of the company..

Five Star Finance director Anthony Bowden has been sentenced on Securities Act charges in the Auckland District Court today.

Five Star Finance directors Nicholas Kirk and Marcus MacDonald have both been sent to jail for more than two years. They are believed to be the first directors of collapsed finance companies to go to jail.

A businessman who manipulated the company payroll to give himself a $10,000 payrise, has been sentenced to 200 hours' community work.

The killer of four-year-old James Whakaruru has been released from prison, despite multiple Parole Board reports claiming he remains violent and dangerous.

A woman who was injured and lost her friend after a drink driver crashed into their picnic says she is still suffering from emotional trauma.

American student Amanda Knox, in an Italian prison for murder, has launched an appeal against her conviction.

The plot in Manukau Memorial Gardens cemetery where George Tipene Harris was laid to rest in 2004 still awaits its headstone.

Natural Dairy has dumped its vice-chairman as its frontwoman May Wang prepares to lodge an appeal to quash her bankruptcy.

Controversial Crafar deal frontwoman May Wang has been bankrupted this evening, in the High Court at Auckland, after having her bid to halt the proceedings dismissed.

The jury has gone out to consider its verdict in a case in which a police officer is accused of a cover up of the circumstances leading to the death of man fleeing custody.

NZTA cleared its registry of deceased licence holders, only to have 23 inform it they were still alive.