Rob Kidd

As a vicious attack went on in the Dunedin courthouse cells, Corrections officers had to peer through a scratched Perspex pane to make out what was happening.

A ''brilliant, thoughtful and creative'' academic has evaded a conviction which will allow her to continue her work in China.

Take one aggrieved woman, add a golf club and a dash of nutmeg - you have the recipe for a violent break-up.

The duo implicated in the murder of a Dunedin man have denied the charges against them and will remain behind bars for now.

A relationship came to a violent - and somewhat spicy - conclusion in a Queenstown caravan, a court has heard.

The duo implicated in the murder of a Dunedin man have denied the charges against them and will remain behind bars for now.

A mother's world has been "turned upside down" after a nurse accidentally sent details of her child's sexual abuse to an unrelated party.

A man who fell asleep at the wheel, causing a head-on smash that left a woman trapped upside down for two hours, has been ordered to pay her more than $2000.

Robbing a vulnerable man of $300 has cost a young man a year of his freedom.

A Dunedin doctor accused of killing a teenage girl has been in court to hear lengthy legal arguments about his case.

A Dunedin doctor accused of killing a teenage girl is in court to hear lengthy legal arguments about his case.

After setting fire to property at an abandoned hospital, a Dunedin teen drove into a taxi then bolted from the crash scene.

Dunedin lawyer Anne Stevens has stood in the High Court countless times, and spoken passionately for hours in defence of her clients.

A "privileged" teenager flipped his ute after filling the rear with water to use it as a paddling pool, a court has heard.

Every day, Mandy* goes with her husband to work, she knows the man who abused her as a child is just 300m away.

A man brandished a shotgun and aimed it at people who owed drug money while driving through South Dunedin, a court has head.

As far as crimes sprees go, it was unusual.

A man who organised a robbery in which the victim was shot through the thigh has been released on parole with more than two years of his jail term remaining.

A convicted murderer tasted only four months of freedom after spending 12 years behind bars.

A relationship reached a violent denouement when a teenager bit her boyfriend then smashed a bottle over his head, a court has heard.