Mike Ross Law Blog

   It was a commercial arrangement between friends, not a consumer credit contract requiring precise statutory loan disclosur...

   Unit title apartment owners can be separately billed for any ‘substantial benefit’ to their apartment following body corpo...

   With Christchurch Airport as landlord attempting to evict 3i Southern Cross Ltd from a leased commercial site, the High Co...

   Claimed to be without precedent, a company owned by Queenstown-based entrepreneur Henry van Asch had the High Court block ...

   A family trust can never be a company director nor an employee, with multiple court rulings following Convendium Ltd’s ins...

   Seeking to recover lost income from legal aid work, Palmerston North lawyer Jeremy McGuire was ten years too late suing AI...

   Mohi Manukau died without leaving a will.   It was eleven years after his 2008 death before daughter Isabel obtained Admin...

   Ian Blair-Bellamy could not be held to promised payouts for his three step-children after their mother’s death because a s...

   Criticised for pressing on with its ultimately unsuccessful prosecution of Whakaari/White Island landowners following a fa...

   Part of the ‘sovereign citizen’ movement, Russell Ward failed in his claim that bankruptcy rules do not apply to him. Mr...

   Trustees of a substantial private trust obtained judicial protection from potential liability while at the same time askin...

   ASB Bank mortgagee sale standard terms have the effect of potentially reducing the sale price and in one case allowed a de...

   Carefully staged around the Christmas holiday break, Brendon Karl Dean Harris and Tipa McQueen exploited the fact that jun...

   Pre-paid funeral managed funds, now holding assets totalling sixty million dollars on behalf of some 7000 customers with m...

   Colin Hugh Gillies two years six months imprisonment for defrauding his employer of $125,800 was confirmed by the Court of...

   Australian tax law forced trustees of an Auckland family trust to get court approval extending life of their trust to avoi...

   Wellington dog breeder Jhanzi Afghan Hound operated by Will Hansen and Mary Phillips claimed their business suffered one m...