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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 dozen people ready to hear the case. The 12 chosen for the jury will decide whether the man on trial i...