Trustees of private trusts in New Zealand will soon have a clearer idea of their obligations and duties.

A New Zealand man who has been sentenced in Australia to more than eight years jail on incest and sex charges will be deported, despite his family not living here.

Cabinet has approved proposals to make court less traumatic for sex abuse victims, including a requirement that a victim is warned if their sexual history will be raised in a trial.

Drivers who refuse to pay speeding fines will have their licence confiscated - sometimes on the side of the road - and possibly lose their car under changes due in months.

New Zealand may only be months away from not having enough judges to hear cases.

Justice Minister Judith Collins is putting judges on notice that painfully slow delivery of reserve judgments will no longer be acceptable.

Justice Minister Judith Collins is wrong when she says Teina Pora cannot be pardoned by the Governor-General until he has exhausted all his appeal rights.

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.

The Police Commissioner has apologised for mistakes made during the Urewera raids but says those arrested and convicted should also consider saying sorry.

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.

A Ministry of Justice boss has been rebuked by a court manager after sending out a congratulatory email when staff are being made redundant.