COMMENT: Van Heeren claims he cannot pay the US$25m as most of his assets have been transferred to tax haven-based entities.

Many of Auckland's legal fraternity are making moves - out of their traditional locations and out of their offices, reports Anne Gibson.

Convicted South Canterbury Finance director Ed Sullivan has been censured by a lawyer's tribunal for the third time in less than a decade.

Is extending anti-money laundering laws to include lawyers the solution to dealing with foreign trusts?

The case between Alex van Heeren and Michael Kidd has reached a new round of appeals.

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.

"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.

Three overseas investors' claim against a law firm associated with an ill-fated Auckland housing development can now be revived.

When a High Court judge comes out and makes a formal declaration that Parliament has failed to protect human rights, then we really should sit up and pay attention, writes Andrew Geddis.

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".

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.

Adopting tougher restrictions on the foreign ownership of residential property may not have the desired effect, writes James Dunne. The Australian experience suggests that it will generate a great deal of additional work for the Government.

A fresh approach to criminal prosecutions for South Auckland is about to be announced with a rising star in the legal world expected to be appointed as its first Crown Solicitor.

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.