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Steve Braunias on the sentencing of the mother responsible for the ‘suitcase murders’

Mercy for Hakyung Lee was bartered for at sentencing.

Duncan Garner: I’ve seen enough, ban e-scooters before someone you know dies

There are rules for all sorts of things, so why are we so lax about flying death traps?

Jane Clifton: How a dog’s Dublin to Auckland trip ended up costing an eye-watering five figure sum

Nothing can prepare NZers returning home from overseas with pets for the odyssey in store.

Aaron Smale: My Christmas Wish

We need a new way of responding to people with trauma.

Law & society: What happens when a coalition partner disavows legislation it helped to enact?

Winston Peters’ pledge to repeal Regulatory Standards Act upends required certainty.

David Harvey: In the digital age, ignorance of the law is even less of an excuse for breaking it

The Free Access to Law movement has spurred greater online access to case and statue law.

Aaron Smale: Nicola Willis shows “utter arrogance” by describing Treaty concepts as “nebulous”

Govt's contempt for the Treaty might come back to bite it on the international stage.

Russell Brown: The way Waiheke Islands works these days has a whiff of feudalism

Today’s Waiheke Island is a very different to the place it was in the 1980s.