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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 ...
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.
This decision of the Health Practitioners Disciplinary Tribunal concerns three disciplinary charges laid by a Professional Conduct Committee (PCC) against Sarai Ive Tepou, a registered nurse of Auckland. The ...
This judgment relates to an application in the Cryptopia saga, which began when its cryptocurrency exchange was hacked in January 2019, resulting in a loss of $30 million of cryptocurrency holdings.
On 3 June 2022, after a 10-day trial before Grice J in the High Court at Wellington, a jury found A guilty by majority verdicts of two charges of sexual violation by rape and one charge of kidnapping. He was ...
A successful originating application by property developer Fairview Estate Investment Ltd to extinguish a restrictive land covenant over two lots of its land.
This is the first substantive appeal under the Marine and Coastal Area (Takutai Moana) Act 2011 (MACA) made to the Court of Appeal. It follows a landmark decision by Churchman J in Re Edwards (Te Whakatōhea No. 2) ...
Anjela Sharma is a lawyer. She was engaged by Gail Foster-Bohm and Andrew Corbin to help them make a claim for unjustifiable dismissal after their employment at IHC New Zealand Inc was terminated as part of ...
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