Mike Ross Law Blog

Where Council inspectors have failed to pick up deficiencies during a building’s construction, a Council is liable for the cost of repair ev...

Council liability for leaky homes extends beyond standalone dwellings to include multi-unit apartments. Attempts by North Shore City to...

Having a reputation for good business judgment and integrity means liability follows for honest but misleading statements made without quali...

Widely viewed as a retail park with airport attached, Auckland International Airport expansion has been protected by a Court of Appeal rulin...

With shades of goldminers racing to be first to stake a claim, the Court of Appeal has ruled the first to file a complete application for w...

For 800 investors bringing a class action following complaints about the 2004 Feltex float, it is going to be a long haul before they see an...

Using legal concepts of relational good faith should be to the fore in dealing with historical Treaty grievances, suggests the Court of Appe...

With the wisdom of Solomon, the courts have split a family trust in two to accommodate a marriage split and to settle disputes between a for...

Christchurch retirement village residents found their rights of occupation were worthless when the owner failed to properly bring them unde...

The Kiwi share created when Telecom was privatised is annoying Telecom’s competitors. They are obliged to contribute each year to Telecom’...

Residents of a Petone retirement village failed in their attempt to escape a 99 year service agreement. A charge registered against their ...

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...