Assault charges against sportsman dismissed
The sportsman charged in relation to an alleged incident in Queenstown earlier this year had all charges against him dismissed by Judge Raoul Neave in the Queenstown District Court yesterday.
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Next week's cases put back or moved
Oamaru District Court sittings scheduled for two days next week will now not proceed and Balclutha's two days later in the month have been transferred to the Gore courthouse.
All Black name secrecy over child assault charge queried
Name suppression for a former All Black on child assault charges flies in the face of Parliament's aims, a legal expert says.
Confession timing 'very poignant'
Joyride on loader becomes expensive in court
The actions of two young men who took an $80,000, 22-tonne front-end loader for a joyride, dug up some of the Millennium Track and then drove the loader over a bank were "much more than skylarking
Nine months' work taken from former Otago dental school head
Alleged swindle totalled $103m
He surrounded himself with beautiful women and lived a lavish lifestyle at exclusive Sydney bars - but yesterday a New Zealand businessman looked wide-eyed and terrified when he appeared in court a
Mum in fatal crash was driving drunk
Ex-Bridgecorp director pleads guilty
A colleague of Rod Petricevic and former director of failed finance company Bridgecorp has been bailed to a home in North Sydney after pleading guilty to 10 charges.