The Philippines government wants extra compensation for the families of its citizens killed in the Christchurch earthquake if inquiries find the Canterbury TV building was not up to scratch.

The High Court has ruled Whanganui District Council's gang patch ban is unlawful.

Judge Tony Couch has sent a stern message to Christchurch. Behave in this crisis or face the consequences.

Police today apologised for arresting a Tokoroa woman more than five years after she lost her job when she was wrongly charged with conspiracy to commit arson and two years after the police watchdog found the investigation was botched.

The police officer who misled officials over the number of unresolved child abuse cases in the Wairarapa has since been promoted.

The IPCA has released the second part of its report into the handling of child abuse cases by police.

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.

Accreditation of individual expert witnesses in the courtroom would be a move in the right direction, says Dr Anna Sandiford.

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.