The FMA says it would prefer to settle its civil action against six businessmen associated with Hanover Finance, and its chief executive says he is "still hopeful" a deal can be reached.

New Zealand's market watchdog has for the first time stood in the shoes of out-of-pocket investors and exercised its right to sue for them.

CaseLoad is confident his public interest mission to reveal New Zealand's best and worst judges will come up trumps.

A Tauranga law firm will have to pay $150,000 more to retirees who lost money in Blue Chip, a Court of Appeal ruling has found.

Internet entrepreneur Kim Dotcom will face tougher new bail conditions and make a daily visit to the police for at least the next week.

Kim Dotcom is banned from using helicopters, travelling by boat or going 80 kilometres from his home, ahead of a bail hearing next Monday.

Police are eyeing money from the sale of three houses owned by a couple accused of defrauding NZX-listed Mighty River Power.

National law firm Buddle Findlay has been barred by the High Court from acting in two cases involving either current or former clients in the space of a month.

Mike Pero has successfully stopped a major law firm acting in a court case brought against him by the mortgage business.

Former Blue Chip boss Mark Bryers is likely to stay bankrupt until at least March next year with his High Court hearing delayed while the parties argue about evidence.

Creditors have accepted a 20c-in-the-dollar proposal from one of Orcon’s former owners but a court has yet to approve the deal.

More than three times as many lawyers were struck off this year than in 2009 and the trend is continuing.

Former All Black Michael Jones is set to receive a windfall from the sale of seven Carl's Jr burger stores he part owns.

A lawyer who misspelled the name of the trial judge incurs the wrath Justice Wylie and complaints against judges on the decline in this week's Caseload.

Mark Hotchin is heading to the Supreme Court in his attempt to join Hanover trustees into the Financial Market Authority's civil action against him.

Struck-off Auckland ex-lawyer Barry Hart is back in the saddle, this time as a "lay advocate" representing banned jockey David Walker.

A New Zealand exporter has won a $450,000 judgment against the suppliers of "defective" Philippine bananas.

A big court case over one of Auckland's most ill-fated apartment tower developments is set down to be heard early next year.

Shareholders in the failed Feltex Carpets have appealed the High Court decision which found the directors were not liable for alleged disclosure failings.

It has taken a while, but a fancy feed to pay tribute to Justice Simon Moore QC is rescheduled for next March - a year after the judge was sworn in.

For the wealthy families of three deceased NZ businessmen, their woes all echo one another - a court battle involving the men's legacies.

In Jock Anderson's Caseload today: a Wellington lawyer who made controversial comment during a rape case faces court himself and clash of the crocodiles.

The lawyer of woman who defended Cornwall Park Trust Board’s $170k lawsuit over back rent suspects her opponents may appeal.

Debt collectors and repo men need to clean up their act says the Commerce Commission, which next year gets new powers to directly crack down on shoddy practices.