The judge dealt with the RSE worker 'expediently' to avoid any burden on the NZ taxpayer.

Defence claims Wire Reddington's schizophrenia could support an insanity defence.

HDC: 'Onus is on the support worker to behave in a professional manner.'

Suzanne Petitt's lawyer says it was just a request for compo for a stolen car.

The court found a 50/50 spilt of their property would be 'repugnant to justice'.

Far North Council CEO Blair King said he felt 'isolated' and lodged a PG in 2022.

Brian Borland told a jury they should find him guilty...so they did.

They spent $16,000 and four months evicting the previous owner who became a 'squatter'.

Crown: Ankle data suggests Tipene Reddington was at the house, not close to murder scene.

'It snuck up behind us and started attacking my dog' - owner of injured Shih Tzu-cross.

Lance Hall allegedly stabbed father-of-two Jason McNae in the neck with some scissors.

2 Cheap Cars has now admitted it didn't do the battery repairs it said it had.

Now a judge has described one of the women involved as a menace to the community.

Jason McNae died in the hospital. The defence claims it was self-defence.

The Court of Appeal has however ordered a retrial for Stephen Stone.

Judge: 'Had you done this right, you probably would have got the inheritance anyway.'

Jamie Gill was drinking with the siblings before his body was found in a paddock.

Now he's been fined after netting $326,000 in a deal he hid from the vendor and his boss.

Jarimar Schuster sent to prison for five years for Wellington sexual assault.

The error came to light when she questioned how her cancer could have spread so quickly.

The family won $18,000 in damages at the Tenancy Tribunal. The landlord wants a rehearing.

Donglan Wu is serving five years but has avoided deportation on humanitarian grounds.

'There are two kids lying in the middle of the road,' a witness told police.

Speeding driver Raymond Tairua-Gray drowned after his unsafe car crashed into a creek.

Defence lawyer says there are other ways the alleged killer's DNA could have got there.

Court hears from grief-stricken parents as school board are sentenced for student's death.

It was alleged the kids were slapped, spat at, hit with a pipe and one was run over.

Judge Bayley: 'No one is able to erase the ongoing harm you have caused your sons.'

The 32-year-old victim grasped at the mud with his hands as he was dragged on his back.

Victim's mum told judge who was sentencing Kurt Balemi that he was a 'danger to society'.