Mike Ross Law Blog

Service industries are permitted to discriminate against customers with special needs where it is not reasonable to provide the service with...

Service industries will be re-doing their sums after a Court of Appeal ruling that staff on call overnight are entitled to at least the mini...

Exercising its new powers to make pre-emptive strikes, the Securities Commission has gained a court order freezing the New Zealand assets of...

Local councils must accept responsibility for negligent inspection of leaky homes, ruled the Supreme Court. North Shore City, now part of ...

Company directors purchase of shares from other shareholders are required to be at “fair value”. A discount to the price may be appropriat...

Just because a commercial transaction runs at loss doesn’t mean that it is an “oppressive” transaction justifying court intervention. And ...

First use of legislation enacting cross-border insolvency rules shows you can run but not hide: a Lloyd’s name bankrupted in England has be...

Receivership of Lighter Quay, the company leasing Auckland waterfront property to Westin Hotel, resulted in an arm wrestle for control of i...

Telecom holds a dominant position in the telecommunications industry, but it is allowed to fight its corner as fiercely as any other telecom...

The High Court ruled that directors of a finance company must have some degree of financial literacy as it upheld a two and half year prohi...

Described as polluting for profit, a landowner was fined nearly $175,000 after pouring industrial waste into a local river. This after sig...

Local councils bear no responsibility for leaky homes when developers choose to use independent building certifiers rather than paying for a...

Orthopaedic surgeons use of family trusts to transfer profits to family members has been ruled tax avoidance by the Court of Appeal. By ex...

Having a work pattern of contract staff doing line maintenance on aircraft in conjunction with employees saved Air Nelson from allegations o...

New Zealand rules allowing insurance claims directly against the policy when the insured is insolvent cannot be used where the insolvent co...

Blue Chip loan agreements entered into by Mr & Mrs Bartles, a retired Whangarei couple, have been ruled oppressive by the Court of Appea...

The shortcut summary judgment procedure used to enforce fixed sum contracts cannot be used for property transactions where the vendor is in ...

An Australian manager of the Fernz Group has been removed by the Supreme Court from price-fixing litigation brought by the Commerce Commissi...

Further fallout from the Digi-Tech tax scheme has left a financier high and dry. A financier could not use a power of attorney clause in m...

While the ship captain’s behaviour was described as “outrageous”, insurers of the Tasman Pioneer were held not liable for cargo losses follo...

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...