A coroner is calling for a national legal help phone line for prisoners in police custody after a lawyer could not be found for a man who later hanged himself.

A potential conflict of interest issue raises questions about maintaining the perception of judicial impartiality in a small country.

The teenager indecently assaulted by a prominent musician has broken her silence, saying police tried to dissuade her from pursuing charges.

A NZ judge who failed to stand down from a Court of Appeal case in which he had a financial relationship with one of the lawyers involved is being investigated.

The Government will shut the state agency responsible for legal aid in a rapid response to Dame Margaret Bazley's damning report.

A scathing report into the state of legal aid sees the chairwoman and three board members resign, after a letter from the justice minister.

The Ministry of Justice is "extremely disappointed" at the Public Service Association's (PSA) rejection of a pay offer.

A police officer allegedly beat up a man in the back of a patrol car who was subsequently fatally injured in a street accident.

Crown prosecutors will be the next target of a Government crackdown on how the justice system is run.