A High Court judge found a leading firm of architects does not have a "watertight" defence in a leaky building case over a Waiheke Island house.

Editorial: If diplomats aren't going to be held to account for offences against the citizens and law of their host country, the country they belong to could at least be named.

Surrounded by five security guards and with his hands cuffed together, prisoner Damian Karl Wereta made no attempt today to escape the courtroom dock.

Authors and media leaders are calling for a change in privacy laws after a High Court ruling that writing a book - even about a topical issue - is not a "news activity".

Capital + Merchant Finance's out-of-pocket investors finally have some good news seven years after its collapse with an $18.5 million settlement announced today.

A terminally-ill divorcee faces being evicted from her home despite being owed nearly $1 million, after her case was put off for three months while a judge is on holiday.

Justice Minister Judith Collins has ruled out reversing the burden of proof in domestic violence cases - one of the key recommendations in the first report of the Glenn Inquiry.

Sir Owen Glenn has nudged New Zealand one step closer towards a less adversarial justice system for domestic violence cases in a bid to fix a "broken" court system.

A former Forsyth Barr investment adviser who poured $460,000 into a now-collapsed internet provider failed to impose discipline on the company.

Works by 12 prisoners are on show in Wanganui's Davis Central City Library this month, in an exhibition themed Aotearoa - Our Land, Our People.

A sex offender who had a serious violence charge by Crown prosecutors dropped has attacked another woman.

For a man who has always craved respectability, having his political career end with the words "guilty as charged" must be particularly galling for John Banks, writes Kerre McIvor.

The man charged with throwing mud over Act MP John Banks as he walked into an Auckland court says he waited more than 20 years for revenge.

Hundreds of millions of people across Europe will be forced to change the way they use the internet, a key Google adviser says.

A lawyer took to wearing a flea collar on her ankle at one of the country's biggest courts while others reported maggots falling from the ceiling, an inquiry hears.

A Rimutaka inmate and prison guards were attacked because the offenders believed the prisoner had "narked" to guards, a court has heard.

The treasurer for John Banks' failed 2010 Auckland mayoralty bid did not know two sizeable donations to the campaign team were from Kim Dotcom.

An ex-All Black accused of managing businesses while bankrupt allegedly removed the director of one of these companies when he refused to provide signed blank cheques.

John Banks’ trial on a charge of filing a false electoral return got off to a dirty start today when a man threw a bucket of mud at him as he walked into court.

Police have made a formal bid in the High Court to seize property they allege is associated with a failed finance company director.

Editorial: Criminal bargaining can sometimes be justified, but it but shouldn't become a standard method of resolving serious crime.

A former teacher at one New Zealand's top secondary schools has pleaded not guilty to a charge of committing an indecent act in a classroom at the school.

Three South Canterbury Finance principals accused of dishonest conduct have been denied access to invoices and correspondence.

The Supreme Court has agreed with Sir Doug Graham and three other Lombard Finance board members that their home detention sentences were too harsh.