In his manual for unbraiding the disingenuous, Attacking Faulty Reasoning: A Practical Guide to Fallacy-Free Arguments, Professor T. Edward Damer stated a red herring...
Auckland-based travel company Worldwide Holidays Ltd (WHL) has been ordered to pay former marketing manager Xiaoyu Kan over $140,000 after unlawfully reducing his salary...
High Court Justice Mary Peters has overturned the conviction of Liz Gunn, who was previously found guilty of common assault following an incident at...
A class action has been filed against Johnson & Johnson NZ, alleging the company sold and marketed phenylephrine-based cold and flu medicines in New...
A senior partner at a major law firm is facing a disciplinary tribunal after allegedly engaging in inappropriate conduct during Christmas functions, including grabbing...
A landmark lawsuit in Los Angeles has exposed troubling internal communications at pharmaceutical giant Merck, revealing the company failed to properly test its Gardasil...
Police are investigating a violent assault on two custody officers at Auckland District Court, where one officer suffered a broken jaw and the other...
Public health always involves tricky, ethics-based issues.
I believe that the Director General of Health Diane Sarfati has short-circuited her obligations in law, by failing...
An Auckland-based lawyer has been found guilty of professional misconduct after improperly obtaining his neighbour's criminal conviction history and presenting it during a mediation...
The western world is witnessing a steady corruption of laws and processes, with governments ‘bending’ our institutions to serve the interests of powerful industries...
The Judicial Conduct Commissioner has called for an investigation into District Court Judge Ema Aitken's behaviour at a private New Zealand First event in...
Manfredo Martin-Michael Madrigal III was also found guilty of lying about contacting the Russian embassy in Washington DC.
A former US Army officer and attorney...
Vanessa Motta, a former stuntwoman-turned-personal injury attorney, is facing federal charges for allegedly orchestrating a scheme to stage 18-wheeler crashes in New Orleans to...
In a controversial decision, Manhattan Judge Juan Merchan has set January 10, 2025, as the sentencing date for President-elect Donald Trump, just ten days...
From Kosovo to Crimea, the hypocrisy of Washington’s ‘rules-based order’ would be funny if it weren’t so serious.
While international law is based on equal...
Australian law firm JGA Saddler has launched a class action lawsuit against Johnson & Johnson, alleging the company misled consumers by marketing cold and...
The Commerce Commission has postponed its decision on Contact Energy's proposed $2 billion acquisition of Manawa Energy, extending the deadline until 31 March next...
Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson shocked audiences with a one-night-only Broadway cameo in & Juliet, playing the role of "Queen Mab" in a...
A district court judge and her reality TV star partner have issued apologies following a heated confrontation at a New Zealand First Christmas function...
The government will begin public consultations in January 2025 on a long-awaited rewrite of the Arms Act 1983, Associate Justice Minister Nicole McKee announced.
The...
The case of a terminally ill Taranaki farmer, who successfully overturned ACC’s repeated denials of compensation for cancer linked to exposure to the herbicide...
In a scathing judgment the Court of Appeal has condemned the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) for its "unnecessary, unreasonable and oppressive" methods, marking a...
President-elect Donald Trump has nominated veteran prosecutor and long-time ally Pam Bondi as his choice for attorney general.
Bondi, who served as Florida's attorney general...
The lawyers assigned to represent Brenton Tarrant, the man convicted of the Christchurch mosque attack, have been granted permanent name suppression.
The lawyers will represent...