Courts

Ephraim Joseph Beazley has been sentenced to at least 17 years behind bars for brutally killing his ex-partner Xi Wang as she held their young child at the entrance to her South Auckland home. Audio

Commentators from all over New Zealand get the chance to have a say on what's been bothering them. Mai Chen gives her thoughts on cultural and linguistic diversity in courts. Audio

The trial of one of the youngest people ever accused of murder is underway at the High Court in Napier. Haami Hanara, 14, has admitted to robbing man Kelly Donner in March, but says he did not kill… Video, Audio

Reporter Ann Marie May was in the High Court in Wellington today, where the Ministry for Business, Innovation and Employment is calling for the Institution of Professional Engineers to resume its… Video, Audio

The government is proposing a new body to investigate potentially dodgy convictions. We sat down with the Minister of Justice and National MP Chris Penk to discuss it, and hear what feedback they… Audio

The jury in the trial of the man accused of murdering South Auckland mother Arishma Chand has heard he told a friend he'd kill her and her ex-husband. Video, Audio

A woman says she answered a personal ad in a local newspaper in the 1970s, and a short time later a man turned up at her door. He stayed for four weeks, attacking her almost daily and on one occasion… Video, Audio

A jury has dismissed Gabriel Yad-Elohim's defence of insanity, finding him guilty of murdering 69-year-old Michael Mulholland, three days after he was released from a mental health unit. Video, Audio

Steven Blance and William Berkland, both members of the Mongrel Mob, pleaded guilty to a raft of drugs charges earlier this year. Video, Audio

Police Commissioner Mike Bush says Steven Quan Li and his wife Fan Yang made more than $4.5 million from a website which sold completed assignments to students, and their money should be forfeited… Video, Audio

The New Zealand Bar Association is adding its voice to concerns over the huge backlog of cases across the judicial system, that has prompted the Chief District Court Judge Jan-Marie Doogue to divert… Audio

Dylan Cossey, 21, escaped jail time for his part in the deaths of four people killed when their car crashed while street racing his vehicle near Hamilton. Video, Audio

Heavily addicted criminals are waiting up to five months for treatment in a court programme purposefully designed to treat addiction as a health issue and keep people out of prison. Zac Fleming… Video, Audio

Gambian-born butcher, Sainey Marong, was sentenced to life in prison, with a minimum non-parole period of 18 years, for the murder of sex worker Renee Duckmanton in Christchurch in 2016. Video, Audio

Retired District Court and Youth Court judge Fred McElrea and Chris Marshall (pictured), the Diana Unwin Chair in Restorative Justice at Victoria University, are experts in the application of… Audio