The New Zealand Law Society is investigating a complaint over the way a former top barrister and prosecutor was treated in the Auckland District Court this week.

A man was cheated out of inheriting his father's $400,000 life insurance by his grandmother and another woman who spent some of the money, a court has heard.

The High Court has found Immigration's suspension of processing student visas for study at an Auckland private training establishment to be "invalid and unlawful".

A few weeks ago, an injured kaka was rescued from a Queen St gutter and is now in a new home at the Auckland Zoo.

Prison officers were justified in restraining an inmate after a struggle described as a "seething mass of humanity", a coroner's inquest has found.

The man whose body was found in a burned-out car in North Canterbury on Sunday is likely to be that of Shane Malcolm Bell.

The alleged conman who carried out "bold frauds on a grand scale" says he is the victim.

A top judge says a long-term decline in the rate of school expulsions for bad behaviour is paying off in a falling crime rate.

The alleged conman who carried out "bold frauds on a grand scale" says he is the victim.

Two years after Anni Dewani's life brutally ended on her honeymoon, her killer was convicted yesterday.

Five men with links to Auckland sport and the underworld have been convicted of trying to buy a huge stash of P in Tonga. But it never existed.

Sarah Cafferkey made a fatal mistake when she befriended Steven Hunter and kept in touch over Facebook.

Asystem which uses "synthetic DNA" to tag personal property has been distributed to 600 homes in a Hamilton suburb to combat burglaries.

The man at the centre of an alleged $3 million fraud case will discover his fate in two weeks.

"Sixteen years ago when I released the first sex offenders' registers in New Zealand and Australia, it seemed the world had gone mad," wrties Deborah Coddington.

The untimely death of top lawyer Greg King has focused attention on one of society's most unpopular jobs. Jared Savage examines the case for the defence.

Loizos Michaels convinced people to "think big" and believe in his investment plans - before he fleeced them of more than $3 million, a court has heard.

A hearing on whether convicted killer David Tamihere breached his parole by flying over an historic Coromandel murder scene has been delayed for six months.

The former chief executive of Christchurch Casino had plans to take over SkyCity with backing from National Party president Peter Goodfellow, says an alleged conman.

Two senior National Party figures were involved in plans to apply for a casino licence, an alleged conman says.

An attack on a young father who died after being stabbed took just minutes, witnesses told a court yesterday.

Hello Sailor frontman Graham Brazier has been back in court, accused of assaulting a woman.

The death of a New Zealand woman in Sydney is to be looked at by the coroner after a private investigation by her family.

Editorial: A financial penalty can bring as much public dishonour as a criminal conviction for an offending company or individual, and so it should.

The Law Commission has raised concerns that the increasing use of financial penalties to punish white-collar criminals means they are being treated more favourably.