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Campaigners blindsided by accelerated axing of Māori Health Authority: Legislation to axe the Māori Health Authority may be tabled as early as next Tuesday – ...
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Campaigners blindsided by accelerated axing of Māori Health Authority
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Crown Solicitor admits ‘hurtful impact’ of her leadership, which left some staff ‘genuinely distressed’
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Crown Solicitor admits ‘hurtful impact’ of her leadership ...
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Christchurch property developer Dave Henderson pushes for day in court: The property developer says either put him in front of a jury of his peers or withdraw ...
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Christchurch property developer Dave Henderson pushes for day in court
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Prosecutor Ben Vanderkolk to be investigated after failures in murder inquiry: A top Crown lawyer involved in high-profile murder cases including Scott Guy and ...
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Prosecutor Ben Vanderkolk to be investigated after failures in murder ...
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Court grapples with Newsroom's banned story: Crown lawyers face strong questioning from judges as Newsroom tries to overturn a ban on a video investigation ...
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Court grapples with Newsroom's banned story
Quick Glance: Democratic senators propose bill for Supreme Court term limits
  • Democratic senators introduce a bill that would significantly change the composition of the Supreme Court.

  • Calls for Supreme Court reform increased after ProPublica revealed that Justice Clarence Thomas received substantial perks from conservative political donors.

  • Unlike lower courts, Supreme Court judges are not bound by an official code of ethics.

  • A recent Gallup poll shows that only 41 percent of Americans approve of the Supreme Court's performance, while 58 percent disapprove.
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Police around NZ drafted in to bring down court wait times in Auckland: Pressure to reduce the backlog of cases in Tāmaki Makaurau has seen police shift court ...
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Police around NZ drafted in to bring down court wait times in Auckland
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Police around NZ drafted in to bring down court wait times in Auckland: Pressure to reduce the backlog of cases in Tāmaki Makaurau has seen police shift court ...
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Police around NZ drafted in to bring down court wait times in Auckland
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Government botches response to Lake Alice torture finding: The heads of Crown Law and the Ministry of Justice can’t work out between them whether the abuse of ...
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Government botches response to Lake Alice torture finding
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Timaru triple tragedy: Murder, infanticide or insanity? What Lauren Dickason jury heard in trial week three
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Timaru triple tragedy: Murder, infanticide or insanity? What Lauren ...
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Complaint laid against Solicitor-General over withholding of Lake Alice evidence from police
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Alan Hall: Inquiry clears Crown Law of wrongdoing in miscarriage of justice case: An independent report has cleared Crown Law of any wrongdoing despite it ...
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Alan Hall: Inquiry clears Crown Law of wrongdoing in miscarriage of ...
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While the inquiry drags on, there’s no justice for abuse in care survivors: As yet another deadline is extended, survivors are losing hope that the Abuse in Care ...
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While the inquiry drags on, there’s no justice for abuse in care survivors
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Outgoing IPCA chair makes final call for greater prosecution powers: The outgoing chair of the Independent Police Conduct Authority leaves the role unconvinced ...
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Outgoing IPCA chair makes final call for greater prosecution powers
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Fight over $28m high country lease hits High Court: Czech multi-millionaire enters legal wrangle with Crown over a supposed reserve
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Fight over $28m high country lease hits High Court
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First torture, now solitary - NZ's shame: Aaron Smale unravels the legal liability the Crown is now ensnared in after the Royal Commission into State ...
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First torture, now solitary - NZ's shame
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Fight over $28m high country lease hits High Court: Czech multi-millionaire enters legal wrangle with Crown over a supposed reserve
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Fight over $28m high country lease hits High Court
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What Stuart Nash did wrong – and why he had to go: Phoning the police commissioner was just the first in a series of missteps.
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What Stuart Nash did wrong – and why he had to go
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Crown spends $1m to prosecute political donations: Only three of nine people charged over political donations deceit in 2022 were convicted ...
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Crown spends $1m to prosecute political donations
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Troubling failings in the three institutions of state: The Supreme Court’s interpretation of the Bill of Rights on the matter of the minimum voting age is just ...
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Troubling failings in the three institutions of state
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Crown to appeal against bombshell High Court decision opposing 501 monitoring : The decision found special conditions on returning 501s went against the Bill of ...
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Crown to appeal against bombshell High Court decision opposing 501 ...
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Lake Alice report finally documents the truth: More than 50 years after children started being dumped at Lake Alice psychiatric hospital ...
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Lake Alice report finally documents the truth
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Crown appeals teen rapist Jayden Meyer's home detention sentence: An appeal has been filed despite the Crown earlier defending its position on the sentence.
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Crown appeals teen rapist Jayden Meyer's home detention sentence
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A structure of impunity: The Prime Minister attended the Queen's funeral and the UN's General Assembly in a week.  But Aaron Smale asks whether her ...
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A structure of impunity
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Crown Law overturned conviction that exposed it to liability: When a victim of abuse in state custody filed a civil claim against the Crown using a criminal ...
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Crown Law overturned conviction that exposed it to liability
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Crown Law blocks the police in rare, costly legal standoff: Exclusive: Did the Government’s legal agency withhold evidence of the rape, torture and abuse of ...
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Crown Law blocks the police in rare, costly legal standoff
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Crown Law blocks the police in rare, costly legal standoff: Exclusive: Did the Government’s legal agency withhold evidence of the rape, torture and abuse of ...
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Crown Law blocks the police in rare, costly legal standoff
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Fresh wave of criticism after Meyer appeal declined: The failed bid to jail teen rapist Jaden Meyer has been slammed as 'manifestly inadequate'
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Fresh wave of criticism after Meyer appeal declined
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Hughes grilled over investigators, legal tactics: Head of the public service says agencies will own, fix and learn from failures
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Hughes grilled over investigators, legal tactics
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Officials' finger pointing over abuse scandals: Comment: Today the country's top public servant fronts up at the Royal Commission into abuse in state ...
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Officials' finger pointing over abuse scandals
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After decades of abuse, insensitive officials anger survivors: Pressure builds ahead of the country’s top public servant appearing at hearings this week
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After decades of abuse, insensitive officials anger survivors
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The woman tipped to become the country's most famous prosecutor: Upcoming Auckland Crown Solicitor vacancy triggers horse-race with one clear favorite.
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The woman tipped to become the country's most famous prosecutor
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Jarrod Gilbert: Justice must be done over wrongful conviction of Alan Hall: OPINION: Integrity of criminal justice system demands rigorous inquiries into Hall ...
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Jarrod Gilbert: Justice must be done over wrongful conviction of Alan Hall
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This man was jailed for murder: Was it a mistake?: Listener: Crown finally accepts 1986 conviction a 'substantial miscarriage of justice'.
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This man was jailed for murder: Was it a mistake?