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One hour done, 199 hours to complete

A Whanganui woman who took two and a half years to complete just one hour of a 200-hour community work sentence has been hauled back before a court.

John Banks: 'I don't give up easily'

Former Act MP and Auckland Mayor John Banks hopes he will be vindicated following a legal appeal against his sentence and conviction for filing a false electoral return.

Brian Rudman: Justice can and must be served

Mercy is not what the innocent seek. It's justice, writes Brian Rudman. An independent body, sifting all the facts in a dispassionate way, is the best way to get to the truth.

NZ's gender pay gap

Editorial: Judicial law rewrite isn't pay answer

Yesterday the Court of Appeal decided the act meant something more: that women have the right to be paid the same as men doing a different job if the work is comparable.

Lawyer backs apartment access ruling

A specialist building and construction lawyer has backed a Supreme Court decision on an apartment owner's access to his Auckland block.

Auckland Crown law work now up for grabs

Verdict in SCF's $1.6b fraud trial due

The fate of three businessmen accused of masterminding the "biggest fraud in New Zealand's history" will be determined tomorrow morning.

Crewe murders: Fit-up denied to the end

The police officer accused of planting a cartridge case in the Crewe double-murder inquiry went to his grave denying he fitted up Arthur Allan Thomas.

Westpac and BNZ to be served papers

Two of New Zealand's largest banks will this week be served court papers over claims they charged more than 41,600 customers unfair penalty fees.

Prominent professional avoids conviction for second time

Police Minister supports apology

Police have said sorry for the raids on the Tuhoe people in 2007 but there will be no ministerial apology for what happened.

Finance men presumed guilty, court told

Cornwall Park Trust to meet leaseholders

The Cornwall Park Trust Board is to meet residents worried about what revisions to its 'modern' lease will mean to their rent prices.

Mai Chen: Judge had to put schoolboy's death to one side

I do not expect Stephen Dudley's parents to be rational about wanting the person they think caused their son's death to be punished.

Allan Hubbard 'disdain' detailed

South Canterbury Finance boss Allan Hubbard "had little interest" in meeting accounting or legal requirements, and colleagues went along with fraud, a court hears.

Wife's name aids escape from e-bracelet

An accused child rapist is one of a growing number of people able to flee criminal charges after cutting off their electronic bracelets.

Jail over son's lethal methadone dose

A woman who gave her son a lethal dose of her methadone to cure a sore stomach been jailed for four years and 11 months.