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15 December 2025

Profit Margin: Knight Investments v. Hawkins Group

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   Any suggestion Auckland volume home builders are creaming it took a knock when the High Court reduced the profit margin Ha...

Champerty: Ingenious Asset Mgmt v. McConnon

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   The High Court dismissed as champertous and ‘trafficking in litigation’ a scheme seeing investors buying up unsecured cred...

Conversion: D&E Buses v. Anuj & Pallavi Family Trust

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   It began with a $65,000 loan, ending with creditor Gary Sword claiming damages of two million dollars for supposed convers...

Partnership: re Estate Peter Webb

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   Partnership law has business partnerships end automatically on death of any one partner, unless agreed otherwise, a rule t...

Relationship Property: 'Cooper' v. 'Smithie'

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   It was at times a tempestuous relationship.   He served a four year prison term for a serious criminal offence.   At one p...
12 December 2025

Maori Land: Smith v. Thompson

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   It took an arrest in 2019 for contempt of court to remove Bruce Smith and his family from land north of Wairoa in a wider ...
11 December 2025

Income Projections: Freedom Digital v. Moore

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   Former real estate agent Stuart Pope fronted a test case for multiple investors seeking compensation for their failed inve...

Reparations: Rajah v. Police

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   Three months after a sentence discount on grounds he would repay $420,000 stolen from his employer, Thirusivan Perumal Raj...
10 December 2025

Comparative Advertising: Zuru v. Lego

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   When Zuru’s negotiations with Lego came to naught over description on packaging for its ‘Max Build’ toy bricks as being Le...
09 December 2025

Arbitration: Garcha Brothers v. St Heliers 88 Ltd

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   Legal manoeuvring by investors Nicole and Victor Armani was described by the High Court as ‘smacking of tactical conduct’ ...

Limitation Period: Heartland Bank v. Campbell

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   The High Court allowed Heartland Bank to chase down part of a $910,000 debt otherwise statute-barred as being more than si...
08 December 2025

Restraint of Trade: Raine & Horne v. Bratschi

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   Rebranding Mike Pero real estate franchises as Raine & Horne still leaves real estate staff bound by earlier Mike Pero...

Maori Land: Malcolm v. Te Hana Trust

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   A 26 year delay in registering with Land Information a status change for Maori land led to protracted legal argument over ...

Cartel: Commerce Commission v. Sweetspot

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   Naively assuming that a proposed market share arrangement was industry practice, and comforted that a competition lawyer h...
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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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