Court

Three Polish crewmen left the country a day ahead of massive fines being imposed for fishery breaches they admitted in the Christchurch District Court.

A Whangarei woman has been jailed for helping her son avoid arrest - by enrolling him in a meditation centre.

The father of a woman killed on her honeymoon by a motor boat while snorkelling in Fiji says the tourist resort should have also been held responsible for her death.

Ingrained fear of authority and Somali attitudes towards adultery may have prompted an HIV positive man to lie to police during a rape investigation, a jury was told today.

A Romanian couple accused of stealing thousands of dollars worth of jewellery while they toured the country have pleaded guilty to a variety of theft and shoplifting charges against them.

A real estate agent will be sentenced in the High Court at Auckland in May after admitting he kidnapped a five-year-old girl last year.

A 20-year-old charged with lifting a child by the head - an action allegedly caught on a bus-stop surveillance camera - has signalled he is taking the case to a trial before a judge-alone.

Jurors watched a videotaped police interview of a HIV-positive taxi driver accused of raping his 18-year-old female passenger in Wellington District Court today.

The jury in a Wellington High Court murder trial today retired to consider its verdicts, after defence lawyers described a chaotic battle outside an east Porirua taxi stand in their closing address

A woman who lost her child after a prolonged pregnancy has told a tribunal hearing she had total faith in her midwife.