Mike Ross Law Blog

A court-ordered freeze imposed on finance company NZF Money Ltd has been extended to protect investors.   But NZF Money is still allowed t...

Rodney Michael Petricevic has been sentenced to six and half years jail for making false statements to Bridgecorp investors.   The High Co...

Minority shareholders in a closely-held company won the battle but lost the war in their attempt to gain a share of business profits gener...

Of the four Lombard directors convicted of Securities Act offences only two were ordered to pay reparations totalling $200,000: one director...

Breaking into the lucrative value-added dairy market does not require ownership of a processing plant. New entrants can demand Fonterra pr...

Bail conditions creating an personal electronic prison will suffice for individuals held in New Zealand pending extradition. Internet entr...

Any failure to properly document drawings from a closely-held company can result in court orders for repayment. Liquidators of an Auckland...

Interests associated with Sir Michael Fay and David Richwhite are running a canny strategy of disruption against Chinese interests looking t...

It was an abuse of process for a taxpayer to try and circumvent the prescribed tax disputes process by claiming Inland Revenue was refusing ...

Australian investors needed High Court approval to support their claim to three million dollars used to prop up Blue Chip operations in Aus...

Sixteen different taxpayers and revenue totalling $300 million is in dispute with Inland Revenue as it targets use of hybrid securities to f...

A court ruling that $227,000 be repaid by a family trust following bankruptcy was reversed on appeal when the bankrupt argued that payments...

In disputes over burial custom, it is the executor who has final responsibility for decisions over the manner and place of burial. With a ...

Valuation of infrastructure assets got an airing in Supreme Court litigation closing out a long running dispute over the cost to Telecom of ...

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...