Mike Ross Law Blog

   Pulling hire equipment from a building site months before an insolvent developer went under negated benefit of the so call...

   Real estate commission of $120,000 was at stake with the High Court ruling Savills (NZ) Ltd’s failure to get its agency ap...

   It was a chapter of errors: Christchurch dealer Devin Inch was unaware his car yard lease had rolled over automatically fo...

   Some of Auckland City’s building-defect insurance compensation claims were struck out by the High Court following confusio...

   A ‘dislike of being with other offenders’ was Cameron Jones excuse for failing to carry out 200 hours community work, sent...

   Graham Fisher’s continuing control over further subdivision of a Masterton lifestyle subdivision three decades after selli...

   The ‘vision’ expressed in computer-generated images of a pool studio was not mirrored in later plans and specifications, b...

   Forensic accountants have a new income stream; challenging Police assessments of revenue earned as proceeds of crime. Au...

   Struck off for misappropriating client funds, Auckland lawyer Aaron Rodney Nicholls was bankrupted by a former client who ...

   Parking vehicles to block a concrete pour for foundations at a new build on a site neighbouring their home at Bay Hill sub...

   Court of Appeal ruled new Trust Act powers can force disaffected family trust beneficiaries into mediation and arbitration...

   It is not government’s job to referee intra-iwi disputes over allocation of Treaty settlement assets the High Court ruled,...

   Indecision by Maori artist and sculptor Para Matchitt over purpose of a trust to hold his artwork saw his children in cour...

   Assets totalling $3.29 million were forfeited as proceeds of crime with police evidence that Daniel Hu facilitated cross-b...

   Ohura A&P Showgrounds near Taumaranui is proving a legal battleground with dispute over who is in control of Ohura’s A...

   Agreeing not to sue for balance of a debt due did not prevent financier Otis Trustee Ltd voting against a scheme of arrang...