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Joseph Johnson, Chea Hemara and William Hines were charged with the 2017 murder of Palmiro MacDonald (a patched member of the Nomads gang). The criminal proceedings had an inter-gang backdrop which was littered ...
An unsuccessful appeal by Cloud of the Court of Appeal’s decision to set aside its consent from Canterbury Regional Council (ECan) to use water for bottling.
In Better Public Media Trust v Attorney-General, the Court of Appeal (CA) overturned a High Court decision and recognised Better Public Media Trust (BPMT) as a charity.
Peeni Henare stood as the Labour Party candidate in the Māori electorate of Tāmaki Makaurau until the results of the general election were declared on 3 November 2023.
Kane Stuart Darling and a Mr Anderson were involved in an altercation with two complainants in a car at a Nelson beach. Both men were charged with aggravated robbery but in different forms.
Taiming Zhang was a student at Victoria University of Wellington in 2020 and 2021. In 2020, Zhang (aged 21 years) resided at Capital Hall, a catered hall of residence in central Wellington. He wished to reside at ...
Major changes are expected to the Residential Property Managers Bill – if it survives the change of government.
A week ago, criminal barrister Lucy Rogers was arrested and hand-cuffed by police for holding up a hand-lettered sign. The words on the sign read, “selective condemnation of genocide is evil.”
Treat alcohol and drug abuse and addiction as a public health issue. Remove benefit fraud prosecutions from the criminal jurisdictions. Overhaul the legal aid system and invest more in community law centres. ...
Financial services businesses are in limbo after a bombshell revelation from the incoming government that it might scrap legislation designed to clean up the conduct of the banking and insurance sectors.
In the 30 years since our Defamation Act 1992 came into force, comparable jurisdictions have overhauled their legislation England in 1996 and 2013, Australia in 2005 and 2021, Scotland in 2021 and Ireland in 2009 ...
Please note the changes below which come into force from 5pm this Friday 24 November 2023.
Family Court Without Notice Application changes (Northern Region)
From Monday 27 November 2023 the ...
Phillip John Smith is a convicted murderer who was sentenced to life imprisonment in 1996. In 2014, he escaped from custody in New Zealand while on short-term release and fled to Brazil.
An unsuccessful application for judicial review by GammaGama Foundation (GammaGama) claiming the Ministry of Social Development (MSD) failed to properly exercise its discretion to prosecute by adopting “an unlawful ...
On 9 July 2010, Joshua van Silfhout committed an aggravated robbery of a service station where Udaya Pathirannehelage was working alone. He was subsequently arrested and remanded in custody on 30 January 2013.
Located in the eastern Bay of Plenty, Whakaari White Island is often described as New Zealand’s most active volcano. On 9 December 2019, another mark was notched in the island’s eruptive history.