For the second time, a notorious drink-driver will be allowed to have a brand new identity in a fresh town.

The Human Rights Commission says saving money should not be the reason defendants lose their right to a trial by jury.

Legislation that will enhance the privacy, safety and security of jurors was introduced to Parliament today. The move comes after a convicted murderer wrote to a juror whose name he saw on a jury panel list.

A lawyer facing a drink-driving charge has been able to keep her identity secret - and is fighting to keep her record clean. The lawyer was allegedly found with more than one and a half times the legal blood alcohol limit.

A violent sex offender stabbed his nephew while on bail - and was later allowed to call him repeatedly from prison in a bid to intimidate him into changing his evidence.

Cabinet Minister Simon Power is retiring from politics in November to return to the private sector.

A Queen's Counsel will carry out an investigation into the publication of the names of two sexual abuse victims on a Ministry of Justice website.

A woman raped by Malcolm George Chaston long before he fulfilled his boasts to kill is angry the predator was able to go on hurting others.

The Chief High Court Judge, Justice Helen Winkelmann, says the court failed to note suppression rules on a judgement which led to two sexual abuse victims being named on the Ministry of Justice website.

An independent reviewer is to be appointed to look into the accidental publishing of two sexual abuse victims' names on the Ministry of Justice website.

The accidental publishing of two sexual abuse victims' names may have been the fault of a judge and not a clerical error as earlier thought, Justice Minister Simon Power says.