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Queenstown jetboat stoush ends with $320k costs order
One of Queenstown's most established tourism operators, Kawarau Jet, has been ordered to pay $320,500 in costs after it campaigned against a rival jet boat company.

Hugh Green, Don Ha set to face off in legal stoush
Auckland property moguls Hugh Green and Don Ha are set to square off in court next year after the High Court gave each group a victory in the fight over unpaid commissions.

Claims Michael Jackson drank intravenous drugs
Michael Jackson drank intravenous drugs, it is to be claimed in court.

Council sued for unmasking Twitter user
The first Briton to have his Twitter identity forcibly revealed by a court is seeking to sue the council that blew his anonymity and force a judicial review of the case.

Trouble for heir to the empire
James Murdoch gets 'please explain' over discrepancy.

Outgunned Google accuses rivals of ganging up in patent war
Google is the only one not in a consortium buying a portfolio of thousands of technology patents from bankrupt firm Nortel Networks.

<i>Shelley Bridgeman:</i> The erroneousness of name suppression
When are people going to realise that name suppression only excites the public appetite for information that, had it been reported in the usual fashion, would barely have interested us?