Lawyers

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  Police Forced to Return Confiscated Money to Motorcycle Gang After Misreading the Word 'Drugs' on Envelope Containing Cash

  Auckland police returned an envelope of cash to the Head Hunters West motorcycle gang after mistakenly interpreting its label as "drugs profit" during an August raid.

• Religious Groups Are Not Required by Law to Police Vet Children’s Workers, Reveals Victim of Sex Abuse

  In New Zealand, a victim of sexual abuse shares what she learned from her past. Religious leaders in New Zealand with access to youngsters are not subject to police vetting, an escape clause that critically needs shutting, revealed a victim of sex abuse.

• Man Faces 13 Months Jail 'Dumb Burglary'

  Graeme Richard Brand is jailed 13 months for burglary of a restaurant that was located nearby a police station, in Cortado, Christchurch.

• Mental Health Facility Unfit To Operate, Manager Insists Building Is Very Safe

  A mental health facility in New Zealand is no longer fit to operate due to its unsafe conditions yet it continues to function.

• Former New Zealand PM enters race for UN secretary general

  Helen Clark, the former prime minister of New Zealand, has entered the race to succeed Ban Ki-moon as secretary-general of the United Nations in a bid to become the first woman in the role of world’s top diplomat.

• More people move to New Zealand from Australia, NZ welcomes 24,504 migrants in 2015

  The latest data showed that more people are heading to New Zealand to live and work in the country. With that, NZ recently welcomed 24,504 migrants from Australia.

• New Zealand joins legal action against appeals to $1.2B quarry redevelopment

  New Zealand government announced it has joined legal proceedings against appeals to a $1.2 billion redevelopment of the Three Kings Quarry, Auckland. This is the first time the ministry has used this power since 1999.

• First aid teams reach Vanuatu, find widespread devastation

  The first aid teams to reach Vanuatu reported widespread devastation on Sunday as authorities declared a state of emergency after a "monster" cyclone tore through the vulnerable Pacific island nation.

• New Zealand bar manager pleads not guilty to insulting Buddhism in Myanmar

  A New Zealand bar manager on Friday pleaded not guilty in a Myanmar court to charges of insulting religion after publishing a psychedelic image of Buddha wearing headphones to promote his bar in Yangon.

• ANZ suspends seven traders as regulator probes rate fixing

  Australia and New Zealand Banking Group (ANZ) said on Wednesday that it has suspended seven staff involved in a regulatory investigation into the fixing of benchmark interbank interest rates.

• Rolling Stones in insurance battle over canceled Asia tour dates

  Legendary rock group The Rolling Stones are locked in a legal battle with an insurance company over a $12.7 million claim for canceled tour dates in Australia and New Zealand following the March death of Mick Jagger's girlfriend, designer L'Wren Scott.

• Wotif.com says NZ regulator clears takeover by Expedia

  New Zealand's competition regulator has cleared online travel giant Expedia Inc to buy Wotif.com Holdings Ltd, leaving just one final regulatory hurdle for the A$699 million ($610 million) deal.