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14 May

‘Boston Legal’ Ends at Season 5

Boston Legal may have been renewed for another season but that doesn’t mean that ABC will run the legal dramedy for a long time. The network has just decided that the show’s fifth season will also be its last.
Though many were shocked by the announcement, McPherson went on to explain the ABC remake of the [...]

04 May

Judgement day looms for overloaded legal system

SENIOR judges will oversee out-of-court mediation of serious disputes in an attempt to unclog Victoria’s legal system.
For the first time in Australia, the Supreme and County courts will be able to send disputes — even large commercial cases — out of the courtroom and into mediation, in a pilot project to be announced by Attorney-General [...]

12 Apr

Stormtrooper in court for Star Wars legal fight

George Lucas, creator of the blockbuster intergalactic sagas, and his billion-dollar merchandising arm are suing Andrew Ainsworth, a small-scale prop designer who sells replicas of the film characters from his southwest London studio.
Lucasfilm and related parties have already won a 2006 court case against Ainsworth in California, where the judge awarded the firm $20 million [...]

03 Apr

Protest calls for prisoner release

Six helicopters and a light aeroplane took to the skies above Paparua Prison yesterday in support of two of the facilitys inmates.
The aircraft flew over the jail where father David Saxton and son Morgan Saxton are being held after they were convicted in February of stealing greenstone valued at $680,000.
Behind the plane a giant banner [...]

01 Apr

Velvet Revolver dump bad boy singer

The announcement came in a terse statement from the groups management company as Weiland, 40, and his recently reunited original band, Stone Temple Pilots, were set next week to announce plans for a highly anticipated summer tour.
The Pilots, also known by their acronym, STP, already have confirmed a handful of upcoming dates, beginning with the [...]

22 Feb

Castro foes want him to face murder charges

Representative Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, a Cuban-born south Florida Republican, said Castro should be charged with murder for the Cuban governments February 1996 shootdown of two planes belonging to the Cuban exile group Brothers to the Rescue.
Three Cuban-Americans and a Cuban exile died when Cuban government MiGs shot down two of the Brothers small planes over international [...]

03 Feb

Your say: Labour to lift school leaving age

What do you think of Labours plans? Click here or email editorial@stuff.co.nz to send us your feedback
Great ideas but 20 years too late. Helen wins by points, it is far better to educate youngsters with a purpose, whether technical or academic rather than Johns ideas of turning out thugs even more skilled in the ways [...]

03 Feb

European player eyes Kiwi aircraft maker

The light aircraft maker was put in liquidation on Tuesday by Australian owner Inventis with the loss of about half its 70 workforce.
The interested buyers are understood to have a role in purchases involving the Royal New Zealand Air Force.
In October the air force chose Italian-made Agusta-Westland helicopters to replace its 40-year-old fleet of Sioux [...]

03 Feb

Legality of flight queried

Adventure tourist Gerry Mayr flew over New Zealands highest peak on Wednesday in a powered paraglider, at one stage cheating death when the chute deflated in turbulent winds.
Other pilots could not contact Mayr by radio during the flight in the busy airspace where the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) requires broadcasts at 15-minute intervals.
The CAA also [...]

31 Jan

A US-style horn bag

The Hollywood actress Selma Blair has been cast to play Kim, the
younger of the foxy morons, in the US version of Kath
Kim.
The 35-year-old actress is set take on the role of the bratty
daughter of Kath, who will be played by the comedienne Molly
Shannon of Saturday Night Live in the NBC pilot of the
sitcom.
Blair starred opposite [...]


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