Guy Williams

The victim of an indecent assault showed remarkable composure to get her attacker’s details and coax him out of her home, a judge says.

An apprentice electrician who punched a DJ while on supervision for previous offending got "caught up in the moment" while out drinking, his lawyer says.

A Wānaka woman who went on a five-month tagging spree has avoided a conviction and cannot be named.

A Central Otago orchard must pay more than $260,000 in penalties after a packing shed incident led to a teenage seasonal worker having three fingers amputated.

A former Aucklander has been sentenced in the Alexandra District Court to more than three years’ prison for attempting to evade nearly $1.1 million in PAYE, GST and income tax.

An itinerant man seen with a late-model ute without plates in Cromwell told police he had bought it on Facebook.

A Glenorchy man caught behind the wheel with an "extraordinarily high" alcohol level has told a judge he forgot he was forbidden from driving.

A French chef arrested in Queenstown during a drugs bust 10 months ago, who offered to sell ecstasy and ketamine, has avoided prison.

A judge has cleared two Gore men of having an illegal road race after calling the police investigation into the incident “sloppy”.

One of four victims of serious assault by a Queenstown man told his attacker it was the worst day of his life.

Coronet Peak skifield owner NZSki has been found guilty of health and safety failures in relation to the death of Queenstown skier Anita Graf in 2019.

A judge has described an altercation between two women at a country tavern, involving a hockey stick and an attempted dognapping, as a "disgraceful incident".

Government officials are looking at the "pattern of decisions" by the Tenancy Tribunal on the enforceability of "no smoking inside" clauses in tenancy agreements.

A Queenstown man’s unprovoked attack on two men outside a bar could have had fatal consequences, a judge says.

A Tenancy Tribunal decision that a no-smoking clause in a Queenstown rental agreement was unenforceable is out of step with the law, industry bodies say.

A man's drunken circumnavigation of the Wānaka Tree in his car has cost him a conviction and nearly $1000.

Smokers can freely light up in rental properties even if their tenancy agreement has a "no smoking inside" clause, a Tenancy Tribunal decision suggests.