Banks won't be back

ACT partly leader John Banks will not seek re-election at the 2014 general election.

In a newsletter posted online, Boscawen said Banks is expected to stay on as the Epsom MP and the party's leader until the election.

Yesterday, a judge at the High Court in Auckland ruled that Banks should stand trial for making a false electoral return relating to his bid for the Auckland mayoralty in 2010.

He is accused of listing donations from SkyCity and Kim Dotcom as anonymous while in fact knowing who had made them.