Mike Ross Law Blog

Poor financial advice is not excused simply by having clients complete a risk profile questionnaire. Financial advisers are still obliged ...

Individual hapu can have property rights which differ from iwi-wide claims. The Waitangi Tribunal has been told to exercise its statutory ...

Unsolicited mailshots to small shareholders in listed companies are misleading and deceptive where prominence given to the above-market offe...

Acting one day too soon cost a landlord dearly. The tenant was entitled to $100,000 from the landlord for destroying its business and was ...

While tax advantages flow from having charitable status, agitating for political change does not fit the legal definition of a charity – as ...

The Unclaimed Money Act applies to unpresented foreign currency drafts and bank cheques. Trading banks must hand over to Inland Revenue th...

White collar criminals are guilty of “using” a document to defraud when signing documents even if that person does not then physically perpe...

In what is a record damages award for defamation, the Court of Appeal left untouched damages totalling $900,000 awarded in favour of well-kn...

Blue Chip investors have been held to agreements for the purchase of Auckland inner city apartments. Any representations by sales staff t...

Creditors’ claims against Whitcoulls and other REDgroup companies have been frozen for an extended period after administrators claimed a lon...

John Lawrence Hotchin escaped a jail term after pleading guilty in a plea bargain prior to trial for securities offences in relation to fund...

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...