He is supposed to be one of the country's richest men, but a $19 million lawsuit could send venture capitalist Bill Birnie under.

The Government is considering how to better support officers following a series of "barbaric" assaults.

Murray McCully says NZ will consider joining any legal action to force Japan to stop whaling in the Southern Ocean if diplomatic channels fail.

A teenager accused of killing schoolgirl Liberty Templeman had to fend off repeated accusations of lying when he gave evidence yesterday.

An outdoor pursuits centre field manager told an inquest today it was too dangerous for him to rescue a group of students from a gorge.

An outdoor pursuits field manager has told an inquest he wishes an instructor had not taken students into a gorge where they died canyoning.

A judge is dismissing a civil lawsuit filed against a Black Eyed Peas manager who punched blogger Perez Hilton.

Celebrity couple Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie have begun legal action against a British tabloid.

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are suing a British tabloid for claiming that they were planning to split.

Didn't Sinclair plagiarise a kookaburra when she came up with the original tune plagiarised by Men At Work?

A Sikh community leader refused entry into a cosmopolitan club because of his turban will take his fight to the Human Rights Commission.

Uri Geller is to sue CNN after it broadcast an allegation he had betrayed his friend Michael Jackson for £100,000 ($216,000).

Top jockey Lisa Cropp has denied calling others in the racing industry "back- stabbing pricks", as she seeks to return from disqualification for a positive methamphetamine test.