Mike Ross Law Blog

Losses following the Canterbury earthquakes have been shifted from the private sector to the Earthquake Commission following a High Court ru...

Two directors of Nathans Finance have been jailed for their part in the company’s failure; two others received home detention. Just over on...

Proposals which force owners in leaky apartments to pay over the odds for water damage to other owners’ apartments do not find favour with t...

Artificially low salaries having the effect of diverting taxable income to other taxpayers on a lower marginal tax rate will be hit as tax a...

While banks might have legitimate concerns about liability for assisting money laundering, they are not entitled to block money transfers u...

Exporters selling into Australia are not directly responsible for ensuring goods comply with Australian regulations. A Queensland buyer ...

There is no injustice in having to do without a lawyer in a criminal trial. Rodney Michael Petricevic, charged with criminal offences foll...

Directors of Nathan Finance have been convicted of misleading the public about the company’s financial position when they failed to disclose...

The family trust of bankrupt Bridgecorp director, Rodney Michael Petricevic, had a net worth of $5.2 million dollars as at March 2009 accord...

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...