When a drunk man staggered onto Auckland's Queen St shortly before dawn on Saturday, April 20, last year, a car stopped and words were exchanged.

What might have ended with the drunk walking off and a car driving away instead left Jerico Telea​ dead and Joseph Antonio Halaholo Larson charged with manslaughter.

But Larson, 21, will spend no time in prison, after the the High Court at Auckland heard the catastrophic burst of violence also sparked a journey of forgiveness.

A 21-year-old man who admitted assaulting two young men at a Young Labour summer camp is appealing a judge's ruling not to grant him permanent name suppression.

The man was originally charged with five counts of indecent assault against four complainants, which he denied, after the 2018 incident.

However, he pleaded guilty to two amended charges of assault halfway through the trial.

He was discharged without conviction in November, but Judge Russell Collins did not grant him permanent name suppression.

A young father at "chronic risk" of self-harming took his own life while under compulsory mental health care after a series of failures by health staff.

He is the fourth mental health patient to die while under compulsory care at Waitematā District Health Board in just two years, including two suspected suicides within days of each other at a North Shore unit last May.

And while the board acknowledges failings, it says changes have been implemented to improve patient safety and prevent further tragedies.

The man's grieving mother, Margaret Lees, is now racked with guilt, having admitted her son to West Auckland's Waiatarau acute mental health unit because she feared he was suicidal, and believing he would be safe.

Lees' lawyer has suggested laying a police complaint to determine if staff at the facility could face criminal charges of neglect.

A Northland police officer who had no legal authority to stop a man from checking his dogs was punched twice in the face.

The violence Nathan John Theobald perpetrated in a forestry block in Dargaville resulted in him being sentenced to nine months in jail but since he's served a significant amount of time in custody, he won't spend any time in prison.

A week-long jury trial started in the Whangārei District Court after he pleaded not guilty to one charge of wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm.

However, he then pleaded guilty to an amended charge of injuring with intent to injure and waived his right to a pre-sentence report.

A 21-year-old man who admitted assaulting two young men at a Young Labour summer camp has been discharged without conviction. 

The young man was originally charged with five counts of indecent assault against four complainants, which he denied. 

However, during his trial in September, the Crown withdrew the indecent assault charges, amending them to assault, withdrew a third charge and offered no evidence on the remaining two charges. 

A bartender has admitted to killing a man in an attack over Easter weekend.

Jerico Telea, 24, was critically injured in an assault on Queen St in central Auckland about 4.20am on Easter Saturday. 

He died at Auckland City Hospital two days later.

Fallout from the Labour Party summer camp case continues as the lawyers involved in the trial are at odds over the details.

The prosecutor in the Labour Party summer camp trial says the Crown does not accept there was no sexual offending, despite taking a downgraded plea deal to resolve the case.

The partner at the law firm Meredith Connell, which holds the prosecution warrant for Auckland, added "the correct position" was that the Crown "did not consider it necessary in the public interest for the jury to resolve the point".

He said the defendant's plea offer came during the evidence of the second male complainant.

"It necessarily involved the defendant recognising that the touching of the two males did happen largely in the way the Crown alleged, but disputing that the defendant knew either that touching was indecent or of the circumstances that made it indecent," Johnstone said.

"And it necessarily involved the Crown accepting that if guilty pleas were entered to assaults on the two males, there was insufficient public interest in continuing the prosecution. No more than that."

More women have approached lawyers in search of compensation after prison authorities subjected them to "cruel and degrading" illegal searches.

The intrusive, unauthorised searches were carried out for a decade on female inmates at Auckland Region Women's Prison suspected of concealing contraband. The Department of Corrections in March said it had apologised to 15 women and paid them $25,000 each in compensation for the searches.

This week, Auckland lawyer Emma Priest said six women had approached her and colleague Sue Gray seeking legal advice.

A man jointly accused with an Auckland lawyer of attempting to pervert the course of justice by pressuring two witnesses to stop co-operating with police has seen his charges dropped.

A young Auckland bartender will face a manslaughter charge after allegedly assaulting a man who later died.

Joseph Antonio Halaholo Larson, 20, appeared today in the Auckland District Court to seek bail from Judge Rob Ronayne.

Jerico Telea was left in a critical condition after what police said was a serious assault on Queen St near Vulcan Lane at about 4.20am on Saturday.

The 24-year-old later died in hospital on Monday afternoon.