Mike Ross Law Blog

Fraudulent GST invoices totalling $9.5 million which generated personal benefits exceeding $2.3 million for two Wellington tax agents resu...

Two directors of Capital + Merchant Finance, Wayne Leslie Douglas and Neal Medhurst Nicholls, have been acquitted of criminal charges laid...

Perpetual Trustee has been forced to accept independent minders monitoring its board.   This after allegations that interests associated w...

Water rights for generating hydroelectric power will become an issue following a landmark Supreme Court decision on the ownership of river...

Telecom used its network dominance to inflate prices charged to data transmission wholesalers over a four year period ending late 2004 the...

Reparations totalling $1.08 million paid by convicted Nathans Finance directors will not be paid directly to investors but can be used by ...

Some twenty-one investors in a personalised investment fund managed by South Canterbury Finance director Allan Hubbard have been overpaid ...

The High Court has ordered that $7.8 million dollars held by LDC Finance supposedly as a secured creditor of failed Nelson finance company...

Two further Bridgecorp directors convicted of making false statements have been sentenced: Cornelis Robert Roest sentenced to six years si...

The medical profession continues to enjoy statutory protection from negligence claims now that a Middlemore hospital surgeon has been held...

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...