in this morning's NZ Herald headlines former green MP darling Tanana heads to court over the party's move to oust her from Parliament fears over redundancies at Health New Zealand and kiwi athletes take center stage at the paralympic games in [Music] Paris M here I'm Willam shrimpton it's Thursday the 29th of August former green MP darling Tana has filed an injunction to try and prevent the party's special general meeting this weekend it's where delegates are a to decide whether to invoke the Waka jumping law to oust her from Parliament Tana's challenge against the greens will be heard in the high court in Oakland today OTA University law professor Andrew gtis says the Court's been asked to intervene in the internal affairs of a political party which is a voluntary organization it's hard for the courts really to tell a voluntary organization hey you have to run in a particular way fears voluntary redundancies at Health New Zealand will further destabilize the health sector the Public Service Association sees Specialists working in administration advisory and knowledge roles are among those affected expressions of interest for redundancy opens today and will last a fortnight National Health lead asach Shankar says on top of a hiring freeze earlier this year taking more people out will overload the sector even more and a number of them are already frustrated with the amount of work they're having to do I mean this is just likely to keep a lot more people just over and they might decide to leave the bar association's raising concerns about ministers making statements about Judges that go further than criticisms or discussions of judgments it comes after Shane Jones referred to a judge as a communist judge the association says ministers have a duty to uphold the role of Judges Association president Maria du KC says they've written to the attorney general seeking action on the comment we would like to see an independent investigation some advice been taken if it hasn't already been from the solicitor general and we would like whatever the outcome of that investigation to be published the crown case in the Philip pulin horn murder trial is nearing completion at the high court in ockland the eye surgeon is accused of killing his wife Pauline Hannah in 2021 but his defense claims she took her own life yesterday digital forensic analyst JN Lee pushed back on defense claims that Hannah had drafted messages on her phone at 4:00 a.m. the morning she died the crown will wrap its case after calling around 60 witnesses to give evidence with the defense now preparing to call a list of its own to the stand before a jury of nine women and three men retire to consider their verdict the par Olympic games are about to begin in Paris New Zealand has sent 25 par athletes plus 41 support staff to compete across eight Sports over the next 11 days Paris swimmer Cameron Leslie and Par athlete Anna galdi will carry the flag at the opening ceremony shief demission railing bait says everyone has worked so hard to make it to Paris and those are the latest NZ Herald headlines for more news worth knowing here to nzherald.co.nz thanks for watching this news and Herald Focus video to stay up to date click the Subscribe button below or check out some of our other videos here and head over to nzherald.co.nz for more news worth knowing