Court

A 59-year-old man has been remanded in custody after appearing in Whangarei District Court today charged with wounding with intent to injure and unlawful possession of a firearm.

Independent Member of Parliament Taito Phillip Field will go to trial in Auckland in April on 37 criminal charges.

A drink-driver who evaded conviction on points of law in the district court then lost out in the High Court and Court of Appeal, has now won the right to have his case considered by the Supreme Cou

The parents of a Christchurch teenager were in court today when he faced a charge of maiming another youth during an attack with a bottle that cost the victim an eye.

Lawyers for the woman convicted of the murder of Marton pensioner Mona Morriss today argued in the Court of Appeal that the conviction be quashed, due to a string of doubts in the Crown case.

A former Westpac mortgage manager has been sentenced to 18 months in jail for his part in a scam whose victims were poor people buying homes in south Auckland in 2005 and banks.

A Putaruru man has been committed for trial, charged with the murder of 22-month-old Tyla-Maree Darryl Flynn in June last year.

The jury in the Stanley Waipouri murder retrial has retired to consider its verdict.

A 19-year-old who crashed into a fence in Tauranga after a police chase was nearly five times over the drink drive limit, police say.

A Tauranga woman, whose personal problems led to a shopping addiction and then to stealing cash from her employer, has been sentenced to 300 hours' community work.