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			<title>Teen admits killing retired teacher</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Teenager Lori-Lea Waiora Te Wini has pleaded guilty to the 2008 murder of a retired Opotiki schoolteacher, four days before her retrial was set to begin.

In the High Court at Rotorua today Te Wini pleaded guilty to murdering John...]]></description> 
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			<title>Caregiver parents should now be paid</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Parents who provide care for their disabled children should now be paid for the work they do, after a court found the lack of recompense they received was discriminatory.

The Court of Appeal today upheld a High Court decision that...]]></description> 
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			<title>Appeal against pay for caregiver parents rejected</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[The Court of Appeal has thrown out an appeal by the Ministry of Health over payments for parents who care for their disabled children.

Parents caring for their disabled children do not receive payment for the work they do and in...]]></description> 
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			<title>Court throws out leaky home owners&#039; bid</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[The buyers of a $3.65 million leaky home in the leafy Auckland suburb of Remuera have had their bid to recover &quot;substantial&quot; costs from Auckland Council thrown out by the Supreme Court.

They have also been ordered to pay $25,000...]]></description> 
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			<title>Cabinet signs off &#039;flats&#039; for high risk sex crims</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Cabinet has given its support to new public protection orders which could see the country&#039;s worst sex offenders imprisoned indefinitely.Justice Minister Judith Collins told Fairfax Media authorities could apply to the High Court...]]></description> 
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			<title>Crown lawyers knew Dotcom order unlawful</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Crown lawyers acting for the United States knew before seizing Kim Dotcom&#039;s fortune and property that they were using an unlawful court order.The High Court file has revealed Crown prosecutor Anne Toohey realised there was a paperwork...]]></description> 
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			<title>Power station waits in pieces as legal fight drags on</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[The dismantled Marsden B power station sits on a wharf at Marsden Pt after a High Court judge ordered it stay there while a legal stoush is resolved between a Northland engineering firm and an Indian telecommunications giant.South...]]></description> 
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			<title>Gwaze on trial for niece&#039;s rape and murder</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[The trial of Zimbabwean vet George Gwaze, accused of the rape and murder of his 10-year-old niece, began at the High Court in Christchurch today.

It took 20 minutes to empanel the jury of seven men and five women when the trial began...]]></description> 
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			<title>Court settles wrangle over definition of gambling</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[A legal wrangle over the definition of gambling was settled in the Court of Appeal today.

This follows an advertising campaign by TV Works, the operating company of TV 3 and C4, for the online Asia pacific poker tournament in late...]]></description> 
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			<title>Christie murder-accused back in court</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[The man accused of murdering North Shore teenager Christie Marceau while on bail has been further remanded to psychiatric care.Akshay Chand, 19, appeared briefly in the High Court at Auckland this morning where Justice Timothy Brewer...]]></description> 
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