Court

A man who fell from a balcony at a flat in Auckland on Wednesday night has died from his injuries.

A young Alexandra man's wrongful conviction on a driving charge four years ago was a major reason for a High Court judge's decision not to send him to prison yesterday for drug dealing.

A man found guilty of sex charges against girls aged 12 and 15 he met on the internet has lost his appeal against conviction.

An Alexandra man is awaiting sentence for an incident in which his wife died last September 5.

Bankruptcy proceedings brought against his former business partner, Rodney Humphries, by Maniototo farmer Ewan Carr over claims of a $238,000 debt were settled on confidential terms in the High Court at Dunedin this week.

A 16-year-old boy was today jailed for life with a minimum non-parole period of 15-1/2 years for murdering a taxi driver.

It was "not inconceivable" two Mexican kitchen-hands arrested in Queenstown on assault and injuring charges would be sent to jail, Judge Dominic Flatley said in the Queenstown District Court yesterday.

An Auckland schoolteacher coaxed and groomed a primary school student into a close relationship before committing sex offences against him, a jury was told today.

Directors of various failed Blue Chip businesses could be chased for the financial collapse.

"A random act of gross recklessness" was how Judge Stephen O'Driscoll yesterday described the actions of a young woman who threw herself in front of a truck in Oamaru last year.