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The possibility partially privatised energy companies could sell off dams and other major assets has opposition MP's worried. Audio

The Government's Green Paper for Vulnerable Children, and is the Privacy Act a barrier or opportunity to minimise harm to these children? Audio

The families of four murder victims have spoken out at a protest today about the bail laws they blame for letting criminals go free. Audio

Families campaigning for major changes to the laws surrounding bail say the current justice system is failing the victims of violent crime. Audio

A campaign to hold judges accountable for bailing violent offenders who go on to commit serious crimes is to be launched today outside the High Court in Auckland. Audio

Sweeping changes to the court system are being proposed by the Law Commission. Audio

The US lawyer for the MegaUpload founder Kim Dotcom says the case against him is politically inspired and American authorities are wrong on the facts and wrong in law. Audio

Practical, legal and ethical issues surrounding disaster reporting in Christchurch in the last two years. Audio

Communities that are fed up with liquor licences being granted, allowing stores to operate in vulnerable neighbourhoods, are appealing for laws around the process to be tightened. Audio

Briefings to incoming ministers. Audio

The Law Commission has suggested creating a sexual violence court and giving judges more power to call and question witnesses, as it looks to review the way criminal trials are conducted. Audio

Radical changes to the way criminal trials are conducted, particularly those involving sexual offences, have been floated by the Law Commission. Audio

More than 2700 teenagers have been charged since 'zero alcohol for drivers under 20' came into force last August. Audio

The Labour Party is calling for a review of election laws and the way they are enforced, in the wake of the police's Radio Live investigation into the Prime Minister's pre-election show. Audio

Relationship Services is running a survey on its website to help inform its submission to Government about Family Court counselling. Audio

Debate over Thailand's Lese Majeste law is heating up, with a group of law professors calling for the penalties to be loosened. Audio

National and the Maori Party remain at loggerheads over how legal protections for Maori will apply to the four State-owned companies up for partial privatisation. Audio

Andrew Scott Howman discusses 'subsequently discovered evidence'. Audio

The Prime Minister says the laws governing land sales to foreigners could be changed if the sales accelerate and alarm New Zealanders. Audio

Mai Chen casts a legal eye across the Government's programme for 2012. Audio

The Law Society president, Jonathan Temm, has been listening to that and joins us now. Audio

The maker of the the Inside Child Poverty documentary, Bryan Bruce, says the Electoral Commission has ruled the screening of the programme - just three days before the election - did not breach the… Audio

A prisoner advocate who has known the notorious criminal, Dean Wickliffe, for nearly 30 years, says he is institutionalised and incapable of living a law-abiding life. Audio

The end of martial law in Fiji has been cautiously welcomed by pro-democracy advocates. Audio

The abuse case sparked an independent report into the West Auckland girl's abuse, which has found a total of 25 government and other agencies were involved in her life from when she was just four… Audio