Funding for talk therapy is drying up just as increasing numbers of Kiwis are feeling comfortable talking about their problems.

A justice reform group is calling for 17-year-old offenders to be dealt with by the youth justice system rather than the adult criminal courts.

Who is the volunteer Wikipedia editor who has inadvertently come to attention in a "wikispat" between Justice Minister Judith Collins and a ministry critic?

Cameras 'swanning' around courtrooms in England will see judges 'heckled' the UK's top judge believes, citing NZ as a bad precedent.

Judith Collins compiled a 34-point list of issues attacking the case for David Bain's innocence and sent it to the former High Court judge reviewing the case.

Police acted "unlawfully, unjustifiably and unreasonably" in establishing road blocks, and detaining and searching people during the Urewera raids six years ago, the police watchdog says.

Dame Susan Devoy was the second choice for the role of Race Relations Commissioner, official documents show, but she received a glowing assessment.

It takes a special class of sleep-deprived conspiracist to imagine John Key would have welcomed, let alone engineered, the Aaron Gilmore brouhaha, writes Toby Manhire.

A $1,000 fine may have to be imposed for anyone avoiding jury service, a judge says.

The email mistakes that embarrassed the Earthquake Commission and ACC are having ramifications for the public's right to access information from the state.

Police involved in the Urewera dawn raids had still not fully co-operated with the agency investigating their actions five years after the controversial operation.

An immigration fraudster stripped of his citizenship and barred from New Zealand owes taxpayers more than $150,000.

Justice Minister Judith Collins is to outline new measures to curb cyber bullying within the next few weeks.

The first music pirate stung under new file-sharing laws has been fined $616 but "didn't realise" the actions were illegal.

Justice Minister Judith Collins has backtracked on a law change that would have ensured compensation for ill-treatment of prisoners by the state was used to benefit victims rather than being given to the inmates.

Ministry of Justice phone lines were overloaded today after thousands of people were mistakenly told to contact the ministry "ASAP''.

C K Stead explains why he is not surprised that Judith Collins ordered a review of the Binnie report on the Bain case.