Len Brown is being urged by a senior councillor to accept a court ruling on controversial wharf extensions and instruct Ports of Auckland to do the same.

Prosecutions against those behind fishing vessels that tangled with the Royal NZ Navy over summer have been hailed as a "giant step forward" by Foreign Minister Murray McCully.

Port opponents have won a historic victory and sunk the latest expansion plans involving filling in more of the Waitemata Harbour.

Ports of Auckland has stopped work on its wharf extension programme after a High Court judge ruled the consents are not lawful.

The will of the late Hugh Green has been declared invalid by the High Court in a major victory for his eldest daughter in a fight for control of his $400m empire.

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

Jock Anderson on the late Bill Heast's will and his family division, the best places to be seen and heard, and more.

A $28m divorce wrangle that has big implications for trusts is heading for the Supreme Court.

New Zealand companies face an increasingly risky legal landscape as professional litigation funders bankroll class action lawsuits and emboldened regulators flex their muscles, says a major law....

A bankrupt business trainer whose companies are in liquidation has been revealed as a taxpayer-funded envoy hired to teach the secret of success.

More than 500 New Zealand leaky-home victims, whose places have been clad in James Hardie materials, could lodge legal action in Auckland in the next few weeks.

Company denies liability, awaits appeal result involving Ministry of Education.

The former partner of a father of three who died four years ago wants to exhume his body and have him cremated.

Government and Auckland iwi are headed to court over plans to sell off up to 500 hectares of surplus Crown land to private developers.

A complaint about an ad telling Len Brown and Auckland councillors to stop "violating" the city's harbour has been thrown out.

Tribes have decided to go to court to challenge the Government's interpretation of "right of first refusal" in light of moves to free up land for private housing developments.

One of Baltimore's most revered lawyers, William "Billy" Murphy, is coming to town to speak at a conference in Auckland.

A decision in the High Court family feud over Hugh Green's $400 million fortune has been made, but remains secret.

Dominion Finance and investors will share a $10m payout after receivers and the FMA settled claims.

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

Aucklanders should learn the outcome of a legal challenge to the controversial wharf extensions at Ports of Auckland in the next two weeks.

The Court of Appeal has reserved its decision in the case of an investor in the Ross Asset Ponzi scheme, who wants to keep his name a secret.

Ports of Auckland has today begun presenting its case in the court wrangle over two wharf extensions to Bledisloe Wharf.

An investor who got nearly $1m from David Ross' Ponzi scheme is fighting to keep name secrecy.

The temperature of Auckland local politics was not taken when two wharf extensions at Ports of Auckland were granted, the High Court at Auckland heard yesterday.

Urban Auckland is heading to court today to battle Ports of Auckland over the controversial Bledisloe Wharf extensions.

A BNZ director has avoided having to pay her neighbours' full legal bill after losing a driveway wrangle.

Jock Anderson on bad name suppression calls, legal aid, the John Banks affair and the Crown Solicitor.

Some South Canterbury Finance preference shareholders played with 'fool's gold' due to a lack of proper information, says one broker.