Mike Ross Law Blog
Legal issues: Inside out
11 July 2025
FMA: Lindeman Investment v. Financial Markets Authority
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Financial Markets Authority power to intervene in capital markets does not make it guarantor of investors’ investments r...
10 July 2025
Insolvent: Fenning v. Lexus Trustees
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Creditors short-changed after debtor Warren Fenning set up an Insolvency Act part-payment scheme to avoid bankruptcy, th...
09 July 2025
Estate: re Estate Mary Tahuhu Edmonds
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Identifying with the sovereign citizen movement and expecting to be addressed as dora-elizabeth-mary:house of edmonds, D...
08 July 2025
Asset Seizure: Commissioner of Police v. Hansen
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Police went too far in seeking court approval to pre-emptively seize vehicles from Auckland pensioner Brian Hansen witho...
07 July 2025
Bequest: re Estate Helen Moeroa Snowball
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A potential $20,000 bequest to a wayward son that disappeared out the front door following a court ruling, then re-appea...
04 July 2025
Off-shore Trust: Maiolini v. Fideis (New Zealand)
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There is over twenty million euros at stake with the Maiolini family, living in Italy and the Emirates, claiming profess...
03 July 2025
Trust: Doig v. Kahia
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With trustees failing to account for trust money received, making payouts in cash with no receipts, and some enjoying pe...
01 July 2025
Liquidation: Khov v. Waitotara Farms
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With relationship property claims stalled in the Family Court, Linda Smiley joined court-appointed receivers having the ...
30 June 2025
Joint Venture: Brown v. TF5 Ltd
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With their proposed joint venture Auckland property development in negative equity, Julian Brown had no further legal cl...
26 June 2025
Negligence: Routhan v. PGC Wrightson
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Businesses might expect that by time a disputed negligence case reaches New Zealand’s highest court there would be some ...
Director's Duties: Classic Flights v. Li
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Part of a carefully camouflaged plot, a Cessna 172 aircraft registration was changed from ZK-DXP to ZK-LIT. Junjie Li ...
25 June 2025
CBL: FMA v. Mulholland
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Chief financial officer of failed insurer CBL Corporation, Carden Mulholland, was hit with a double whammy: ordered to p...
16 June 2025
Asset Forfeiture: Commssioner of Police v. Le
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It was guilt by association, with police alleging Ut Don Le and Hai Thi Thu Le had profited from cannabis dealing by rea...
Radio Spectrum: Cayman Spectrum v. Spark NZ
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Market dynamics a decade ago set the scene for a High Court order that Cayman Spectrum pay Spark around $2.3 million for...
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