Mike Ross Law Blog

Port companies are permitted to shelter under the statutory liability limits contained in transport legislation even when cargo is damaged b...

Nine structured finance transactions involving funds totalling $4.36 billion engineered by Westpac Bank have been struck down by the High Co...

Pharmaceutical companies are given special exemptions from the general provisions of anti-trust law when dealing with Pharmac. The Commerc...

Employees cannot be forced to cover for striking colleagues, they must agree to taking on the work. The Court of Appeal ruled that Atlas S...

Cross-cultural differences in “body snatching cases” pit rights of individual freedom against the collective decisions of tribal custom. ...

Discrimination on grounds of age can be applied to airline pilots, but employers must first make an effort to adjust scheduling to minimise ...

It looked like an unequal match: a sixty year old sole litigant arguing his own case in the Court of Appeal against the moneyed might of the...

The High Court has disallowed as tax avoidance a series of BNZ structured finance transactions described as tax machines having no commercia...

Westpac Bank learnt it had no security worth enforcing after it was the victim of a sophisticated fraud lending $180,000 to a con artist ma...

On separation, a wife was able to claim a substantial share of her husband’s business on the basis that her work around the home and her inc...

A deferred gifting programme used by Public Trust clients has survived attack by Inland Revenue in the Court of Appeal.   The programme was...

Which insurance companies will have to bear insured maritime losses turn on whether reckless navigation increased losses after the Tasman Pi...

Ripping off merchandise sold to supporters of the Crusaders rugby team cost one entrepreneur $50,000 in payment of profits made.   The Supre...

Kawarau Jet Services fought hard to prevent a competitor breaking its monopoly on tourist operations down the Kawarau River near Queenstow...

Auckland real estate firm Premium Real Estate was ordered to pay $660,000 damages and refund commission of $67,000 for failing to tell its c...

Resource management applications and appeals extending over nearly two decades in a commercial dispute between competing supermarkets added...

General tax avoidance provisions can be used to hammer taxpayers not party to the tax scheme but who enjoy the benefit, the Supreme Court e...

Scalpel or sledgehammer?   Judges in the Supreme Court are divided on how anti-avoidance rules in tax law should apply. While the general...

Company reconstructions using the court supervised Part 15 procedure risk legal challenges if there is a failure to fully disclose details ...

The judicial system does not operate to further personal crusades into maritime accidents once a wrong has been remedied.   So ruled the Co...

Litigation is an expensive way to settle family arguments over money.   The High Court recommended that Whangarei “Lion Man”, Craig Busch, ...