Court

Two youths charged with murdering a Christchurch taxi driver have been committed to the High Court for trial, on the third day of their depositions hearing in the Youth Court.

A special court sitting is being organised in Waikato Hospital today for a man who was arrested for the armed robbery of a Chinese takeaway shop.

A teenager accused of the brutal bashing of war veteran Eric Brady in south Auckland earlier this year will have name and image suppression continued.

A taxi driver was used as a punching bag by a man who abducted him, he told New Plymouth District Court today.

Convicted abductor Dick Headley has been knocked back in his efforts to be granted legal aid.

The lawyer for a man facing two charges after a car reversed over a policewoman, causing her serious injury, says he hopes the case will not go to trial.

Robbers attacked two French students in their home in London, bound and tortured them for their bank card PIN numbers, then stabbed them to death when an attempt to withdraw money failed, a prosecu

A Wairarapa real estate attacked by a man posing as a potential buyer seized a screwdriver from the boot of a car he was trying to force her into and stabbed him.

An army major has denied charges of smacking one female colleague on the bottom, sending lewd text messages to another and grabbing the thigh of a third.

A Wanganui defence lawyer who fought a drink-driving conviction on grounds he was refused legal access when a police officer changed the wording of her instructions to take a breath test has lost h