Hamish Fletcher analyses the High Court’s judgement in a scrap over rich-lister Hugh Green’s will.

Auckland iwi Ngati Whatua has confirmed it will seek a judicial review of Government’s plan to sell off Crown land to private developers.

CaseLoad must remain tight-lipped about his part in last week's appointment of two new High Court judges - lest nosey parkers get the wrong idea...

An investor in the David Ross ponzi scheme - who has been named for the first time - has been ordered to pay back $454,000 of fictitious profits in a clawback test case.

Family of the late rich-lister Hugh Green are planning an appeal after his final will was declared invalid by the High Court.

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.

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 judge would require "a very good reason" to allow a woman to exhume the body of her partner who died four years ago so that she can have him cremated.

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

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

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.

Danone Nutricia has reported a full-year loss it attributes to ongoing fallout from the Fonterra botulism scare in 2013.

North South Finance investors will get a better deal in the $10.24 million settlement with its board and the directors of Dominion Finance.

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.