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.

A believer in Scott Watson's innocence plans to reinterview key witnesses in the case of Ben Smart and Olivia Hope.

A young man has won his appeal against conviction for the attempted rape of an Australian backpacker.

A damning review of legal aid says a sea change is needed to fix a system undermined by incompetent and sometimes corrupt lawyers.

An Auckland man who dumped his wife in a written note has been ordered to pay her interim maintenance of $10,000 a month.

Privately run prisons are on the Government's agenda after Parliament today passed a bill allowing them to be handed over.

Halatau Naitoko would have died instantly when accidentally shot by police, a forensic pathologist has told the coroner's inquest into his death.

Gunman Stephen McDonald looked "possessed" as he led police to a motorway where they shot an innocent teenager dead, an inquest has heard.

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A senior judge has vowed to crack down on a violent crime wave, which he says is sometimes "little more than sheer sadism".

Department bosses told those who don't perform face cuts so those who do well can be rewarded.