Law

Britain's parliament must decide on Friday whether to support assisted dying, following what is likely to be a heated debate and protests for and against outside.

Our alcohol sales laws need an overhaul, researchers say. Audio

Big Tech corporations on Friday hit out at a landmark Australian law that bans youths under the age of 16 from accessing social media, saying the law was "rushed" through parliament.

A new bill would make it legal to serve drinks at hair salons, which many salons have already done for years. Audio

The Prime Minister has apologised for decades of child abuse in care, but the Mental Health Act allows some of the same kind of treatment to be dished out to the mentally unwell.

Sam Finnemore had been acting normally before he headed to bed on the night he died, a coroner says.

The injunction is aimed at stopping "interference" with sewerage pipeline construction near Rotorua - which implications for protests against the project.

The Detail - Defence lawyers say there are better ways of clearing clogged courts than the government's plan to have fewer jury trials.

A losing bidder says Onion won a rigged bankruptcy auction and offered half as much cash as its bid.

Final preparations are being made as tens of thousands of people in te Hīkoi mō te Tiriti convoys converge in the capital.

The bill introduces new offences to criminalise covert, deceptive, corruptive or coercive activities on behalf of a foreign power to intentionally or recklessly harm the country.

The family of militant civil rights leader Malcolm X has filed a NZ$170 million lawsuit that accuses law enforcement agencies of allowing his murder to be carried out almost 60 years ago. Audio