Tim Graham

The Criminal Bar Association's outgoing president says she wants an end to unseemly mud-slinging between lawyers, about who gets what in legal aid work. Audio

Hundreds of protestors marched from the gates of Parliament, to the Waitangi Tribunal today, demanding the protection of kohanga reo under the Treaty of Waitangi. Audio

The Corrections Department maintains Hawke's Bay Prison is still a safe place to work, despite a kidnapping plot targetting guards. Audio

The main insurer of the country's councils has had its credit rating downgraded, but Local Government New Zealand says it's not on a slippery slope. Audio

New figures show the number of investigations into Corrections Department staff has trebled over the past five years. Audio

Recently released prisoner, Anthony Ratahi, was shot dead by police after he took his ex-girlfriend hostage at a hotel in the Taranaki township of Opunake over the weekend. Audio

Calls are intensifying to retain the last vestiges of public service television, now the Government has scrapped TVNZ's charter. Audio

One of the country's longest-serving prisoners has died in custody, in a rare case of a life sentence meaning life. Audio

The Royal Commission into the Pike River Coal mine disaster has been forced to use its powers to compel people to cooperate with it. Audio

The police watchdog says a man drunk on a cocktail of drugs may have lived, had he been checked more often while detained in a cell at the Whakatane police station. Audio

Some prisoners, desperate for a cigarette, have resorted to dunking their quit-smoking patches in tea to extract as much niccotine as possible. Audio

A violent offender, at high risk of reoffending, has been freed from prison without residential restrictions. Audio

Three women with Mongrel Mob links are tonight awaiting a court ruling on whether they'll be evicted from their Lower Hutt State houses. Audio

A high-profile Queens Counsel believes his client would have a better case for compensation, were he not Maori, tattooed and holding a criminal record. Audio

The convicted paedophile and disgraced morals campaigner Graham Capill's bid for early parole has come to nothing. Audio

New revelations have come to light about what happened immediately after the first explosion at the Pike River Mine on November the 19th. Audio

Housing New Zealand is rejecting claims of discrimination against three Mongrel Mob families its looking to evict from the troubled Lower Hutt suburb of Pomare. Audio

Housing New Zealand's move to evict three Mongrel Mob families from Lower Hutt state houses, has been labelled a pure disgrace. Audio

Housing New Zealand will be back in court today, having already spent about 850-thousand dollars of taxpayer money trying to evict three women from Lower Hutt state houses. Audio

New Zealand's newest, and only, private prison gets its first inmates today. Audio