The ADSL has stopped losing money - due, in part, to savings made from a free chocolate biscuit ban.

Westpac is facing a claim that it made misrepresentations to get a long-standing commercial customer to buy interest rate swaps that lost it $3 million.

Passengers who flew across the Pacific during the last 15 years are being urged to apply for funds from a price fixing class action against airlines, including Air NZ.

Greymouth Petroleum's former chief operating officer and his company have been ordered to pay almost $780,000 to the oil and gas firm for negligence associated with a fracking operation and a seismic survey programme in Taranaki.

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.

CaseLoad's coverage of the stellar career of a dashing celebrity judge was graciously acknowledged recently.

Top lawyer says new judgment in wrangle between Rotorua sawmilling magnate and his ex-wife "redraws the landscape".

Carter Holt Harvey's cladding sheets and systems used in 880 school buildings were "inherently defective", the Court of Appeal has heard.

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

The Government is being lobbied to bring the tobacco plain-packaging bill back to Parliament for a final vote.

More people are choosing to represent themselves in court, possibly because of the digital self-help phenomenon, the secretary for justice says.

The New Zealand Superannuation Fund's litigation against the Portuguese central bank could end up before the European Court of Justice.

Well-wishers to Justice Dame Lowell Patria Goddard, as she is off to her new job in Britain, include Judge Les Atkins QC and ex-lawyer Barry Hart.

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

The NZ Super Fund will not change its policy substantially after the loss of almost $200m in taxpayers' money.

Jailed former Bridgecorp director Rob Roest must repay $174,000 of legal aid for his unsuccessful defence, a High Court judge has ruled.

There is news female solicitors now outnumber male solicitors in the Irish Republic.

Almost $200 million in taxpayers' money invested through the NZ Superannuation Fund has been lost after a supposedly 'risk free' loan.

"Negligent" advice from a Tauranga law firm did not cause a Blue Chip investor's $90,000 loss, the Supreme Court has unanimously decided.

Jailed Bridgecorp boss Rod Petricevic has been denied parole again as he appears to have failed to come to grips with the true nature of his offending.

Assurances have been given that unidentified blog accusations Justice Dame Lowell Goddard was involved in a potential cover-up, are not true.

One of the country's top financial planning firms went to the High Court last month in a bid to get client records from a former franchisee.

Mark Zuckerberg fights off a lawsuit from the man who planned to invade his privacy, then offered a way out if he opened the door to his business world.