An investor in the David Ross ponzi scheme - who has been named for the first time - has been ordered to pay back $454,000 of fictitious profits in a clawback test case.

Family of the late rich-lister Hugh Green are planning an appeal after his final will was declared invalid by the High Court.

Len Brown is being urged by a senior councillor to accept a court ruling on controversial wharf extensions and instruct Ports of Auckland to do the same.

Prosecutions against those behind fishing vessels that tangled with the Royal NZ Navy over summer have been hailed as a "giant step forward" by Foreign Minister Murray McCully.

Port opponents have won a historic victory and sunk the latest expansion plans involving filling in more of the Waitemata Harbour.

Ports of Auckland has stopped work on its wharf extension programme after a High Court judge ruled the consents are not lawful.

The will of the late Hugh Green has been declared invalid by the High Court in a major victory for his eldest daughter in a fight for control of his $400m empire.

Electricity retailer and generator Trustpower has lost the latest round of a $8.9m tax battle.

Jock Anderson on the late Bill Heast's will and his family division, the best places to be seen and heard, and more.

A judge would require "a very good reason" to allow a woman to exhume the body of her partner who died four years ago so that she can have him cremated.

A bankrupt business trainer whose companies are in liquidation has been revealed as a taxpayer-funded envoy hired to teach the secret of success.

The former partner of a father of three who died four years ago wants to exhume his body and have him cremated.

More than 500 New Zealand leaky-home victims, whose places have been clad in James Hardie materials, could lodge legal action in Auckland in the next few weeks.

Company denies liability, awaits appeal result involving Ministry of Education.

Government and Auckland iwi are headed to court over plans to sell off up to 500 hectares of surplus Crown land to private developers.

A complaint about an ad telling Len Brown and Auckland councillors to stop "violating" the city's harbour has been thrown out.

Tribes have decided to go to court to challenge the Government's interpretation of "right of first refusal" in light of moves to free up land for private housing developments.

Danone Nutricia has reported a full-year loss it attributes to ongoing fallout from the Fonterra botulism scare in 2013.

North South Finance investors will get a better deal in the $10.24 million settlement with its board and the directors of Dominion Finance.

Dominion Finance and investors will share a $10m payout after receivers and the FMA settled claims.

Meredith Connell is exiting Auckland's legal block on Shortland Street for a new office as part of the "CBD drift".

Aucklanders should learn the outcome of a legal challenge to the controversial wharf extensions at Ports of Auckland in the next two weeks.

The Court of Appeal has reserved its decision in the case of an investor in the Ross Asset Ponzi scheme, who wants to keep his name a secret.

Ports of Auckland has today begun presenting its case in the court wrangle over two wharf extensions to Bledisloe Wharf.

An investor who got nearly $1m from David Ross' Ponzi scheme is fighting to keep name secrecy.

The temperature of Auckland local politics was not taken when two wharf extensions at Ports of Auckland were granted, the High Court at Auckland heard yesterday.

Urban Auckland is heading to court today to battle Ports of Auckland over the controversial Bledisloe Wharf extensions.

A BNZ director has avoided having to pay her neighbours' full legal bill after losing a driveway wrangle.