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A parent group is using a billboard campaign to call for urgent changes to New Zealand's "brutal" family court system.

The Detail podcast brings you the issues behind the news every weekday. Here's what we covered this week.

Our almost 70-year-old adoption laws are under review and there are calls for changes to make it easier for adopted children to reconnect with their biological family.

About 31,000 homes are now owned by trusts. Law professor says the tax advances of them is like "money from heaven, you can’t go wrong”.

Fewer than one in five people called up for jury services showed up at court in 2019-20. Fewer than one in five New Zealanders called up for jury service report for duty. Why are so many Kiwis avoiding an important civic responsibility? Jimmy Ellingham reports. The lawyers and the judge are in position, wearing their trial robes. In the dock sits the defendant – in this case a man on trial for raping and sexually violating two women – flanked by security. Court staff usher in several do...

Emergency Management Minister Kiri Allan has stage-three cervical cancer, the Labour MP revealed on Tuesday. Getting to know Kiritapu: This article is republished following the Government minister’s announcement of her battle with cancer, and the revelation of her personal health struggle on the day of the tsunami. Kiritapu Allan (Ngāti Ranginui & Ngāti Tūwharetoa) replaced Jacinda Ardern as New Zealand’s youngest Cabinet minister at the election, and shot into the headlines as the threa...

Arthur Taylor and Hazel Heal in Dunedin. It was a few days into the new year and while most of the country had fled to the beach, Hazel Heal was in her Dunedin study, crafting a lengthy submission to the Parole Board. Shortly before Christmas career criminal and jailhouse lawyer Arthur Taylor had been plucked from her rural property near Dunedins student-town – where he resides in a cabin – and recalled to prison amid allegations he’d supplied methamphetamine. (Taylor strongly denies the...