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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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Mike Ross spent nearly thirty years teaching all aspects of commercial law to business students and almost as many years writing variously for The New Zealand Herald, The National Business Review and The Chartered Accountants' Journal. He authored two books on legal principles governing business reconstructions. Mike Ross holds degrees in both law and economics from the University of Auckland.
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