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20 May 2025

Asset Forfeiture: Commissioner of Police v. McMillan

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  Claims by travel broker Jitesh Mistry that his $50,000 payment six years ago to now convicted drug dealer Kenny Leslie M...
19 May 2025

Mortgagee Sale: Lau v. Silver Harbour Capital

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  Investors supporting a failed South Auckland property development have returned to China, leaving in their wake a claim ...
14 May 2025

Family Trust: Everiss v. Long

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  Having a family trust own business assets allows considerable dexterity in distribution of taxable profits, but has led ...
13 May 2025

Fraud: Pearson v. Commonwealth of Australia

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  After a five year battle to avoid extradition, financial adviser Marion Joan Pearson now faces charges in Perth alleging...
09 May 2025

Subdivision: Buchanan v. Buchanan

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  It took threats of legal action to have Lesley Buchanan agree to family plans for subdivision of their Wanaka property. ...

Forestry Rights: ADM International v. Kiwi Forests

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  With litigation spanning the globe, Swiss-based ship charterer ADM International Ltd failed in its Fair Trading Act clai...
08 May 2025

Insider Trading: Huljich v. R.

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  Court of Appeal doubled Peter Huljich’s Pushpay Holdings insider trading fine to $200,000, expressing concern the trial ...

Secret Commission: Spark NZ Ltd v. Bryan

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  Spark is chasing backhanders totalling $3.5 million paid by Sean Bryan’s Victory IT Ltd, being secret commissions reward...
07 May 2025

Bankruptcy: Seven Brews v. Flavell

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  Proof is required, not promises.   Graeme Pierre Flavell was bankrupted on a $51,500 debt owed liquor wholesaler Seven B...
02 May 2025

Bankrupt: Wenzhou Hongliang v. Williams

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  With Insolvency Service about to close the file on bankrupt Gerald Norman Williams, unpaid creditor Wenzhou Trading had ...
01 May 2025

Canam Construction: Miedema Family Trust v. Petrou

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  Directors Loukas Petrou and Stephen Jones were ordered to pay $513,400 damages to Mark’s and Julie’s Miedema Family Trus...
30 April 2025

Mortgagee Sale: Bank of India v. Gupta

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  Partly constructed buildings left abandoned are the most difficult to sell in a mortgagee sale; a point accepted by the ...

Trust: Huang v. Chen

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  Renovate or sell: a decision splitting trustees of Auckland’s North Shore Bread of Life Christian Church, currently occu...
28 April 2025

Reckless Trading: Batley v. MacDonald

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  Hamilton builder John MacDonald was ordered to pay nearly $290,000 to two customers after what the High Court described ...
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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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