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A Thames former lawyer and police officer has been censured by the Lawyers and Conveyancers Disciplinary Tribunal after being convicted on a charge of male assaults female (MAF).
Police involved in the Urewera dawn raids had still not fully co-operated with the agency investigating their actions five years after the controversial operation.Recent briefings from the Independent Police
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Police told a man who had his wallet stolen in a bar that he would have to solve his own case if he wanted to get it back. The man had stopped at Ponsonby's Golden
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Work on implementing one of the recommendations of the Commission of Inquiry into Police Conduct has been quietly shelved because of a lack of resources. The commission, headed by Dame
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A Christchurch policeman has admitted stealing $2750 in cash that he received from people before ending prosecutions against them. The man has now left the police force. The 63-year-old
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A policeman's expletive-laden tirade at a teenage driver is under investigation by the independent police watchdog after being caught on tape.The officer called the 16-year-old a "dickhead" and "idiot" and repeatedly used the f-word during the stop, apparently because he believed the boy
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Eight New Zealand lawyers, including a prominent University of Auckland professor, have been appointed Queen's Counsel under a new process that includes
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The woman who went on a Tinder date with Grace Millane's killer while her body lay in his apartment says she was so unnerved, she lied to him about where
A man who feigned illness to escape police custody before leaping over a fence with the help of a dog kennel and sparking a manhunt has been jailed. It
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Eight New Zealand lawyers, including a prominent University of Auckland professor, have been appointed Queen's Counsel under a new process that includes
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