The suit is perhaps the broadest challenge yet to the federal system.

A lawyer has been censured and fined $1500 for sub-standard record keeping and acting where there was a conflict of interest.

A former partner in an Auckland law firm since fallen on "hard times" has won for being unlawfully arrested and "charged over nothing".

The Supreme Court won't let Heartland New Zealand appeal a ruling that excused Vero Insurance New Zealand from covering losses.

A wide-ranging and five year review, released today, examines New Zealand's burial and cremation law and recommends the current Act be repealed

Wonderful tales told by an uncle who practised law in Surfers Paradise led Tim Rainey to the verdict that law was the profession for him.

"Why doesn't she leave?" That is the wrong question to ask. It places responsibility for the situation on the victim, rather than the perpetrator, writes Catriona MacLennan.

Businessman Michael Thompson argues he should be able to keep more than half of an $8 million payment the Supreme Court says is relationship property.

There is a very strong public interest in ensuring that the state has the power and resources to investigate the commission of criminal offences, writes Nick Russell.

Electricity retailer and generator Trustpower has lost the latest round of a $8.9m tax battle.

Michael October is not a rapist and murderer but he carries that stigma with him every day of his life, writes Jarrod Gilbert.

Meredith Connell is exiting Auckland's legal block on Shortland Street for a new office as part of the "CBD drift".

New Zealand motor industry identity Clyde Campbell is at the centre of a $30m case alleging he spent corporate funds to pay for a lavish lifestyle.

Even the judges are excited about Manukau's new Crown Solicitor. Natalie Walker, who by August will become responsible for all major prosecutions in the area for the next 10 years.

Warrants for a police raid on properties owned by Christchurch businessman David Henderson have been declared unlawful.

A lawyer has been fined for "judge-shopping" to avoid a particular judge hearing his case, as well as sending a picture of a monkey with his request to police prosecutions.

A quiet coup is afoot among the pinstripes of Auckland's Shortland St, threatening to overthrow almost a century of legal tradition.

Gay Johnson spent $600,000 fixing her leaking Castor Bay house so she joined a new $100 million legal action to fight for compensation.

Christine Thompson, who today won a share of $8 million received by her ex-husband, wanted to "set the law straight for other women", says her lawyer.

A High Court stoush between a lawyer suing her former partners for establishing a new firm without her has settled.

An Auckland franchising lawyer has accused certain colleagues in the profession of laziness after his work was plagiarised a third time.

A South African lawyer who suppressed his "out of control" history has been deemed fit and proper to be a lawyer in NZ.

An architect of the Trinity forestry tax scheme has failed to convince the High Court to halt bankruptcy action against him.

They say what goes around comes around, and so it is for lawyer Boon Gunn Hong whose excessive suspension has been quashed on appeal.

There are many ways of telling whether someone is telling the truth. Unfortunately they do not include the way they look and sound, writes Robert Fisher.