Mike Ross Law Blog

Greenpeace has moved away from the pacifist underpinning of its original constitution by offering to change its rules in order to gain cha...

The trust owning earthquake-damaged Canterbury Cathedral must build a new cathedral on the same site using insurance money for the rebuild...

Court appointed receivers can take control of a financial adviser’s business where the Financial Markets Authority fears loss of client fu...

The forced sale of properties owned by high profile Auckland barrister Barry John Hart left him with a $20.5 million shortfall.   The High...

In a landmark ruling with huge costs for ratepayers, the Supreme Court has extended council liability for negligent building inspections t...

High Court orders have smoothed the way for Perpetual Mortgage Fund to be wound up.   The fund is illiquid.   It cannot honour the 437 red...

The Court of Appeal has dismissed challenges to search warrants obtained by Inland Revenue for access to private homes of people behind th...

Disgraced member of parliament Philip Hans Field has been ordered to pay $27,480 being the assessed value of work carried out on his prope...

With packaging company Visy Board fined $36 million in Australia for market rigging, the Commerce Commission is pursuing the company alleg...

Directors of failed finance company Capital + Merchant were described as being driven by self-interest and greed when sentenced to long te...

Assets held in family trusts set up by Hanover director, Mark Hotchin, remain frozen following a Court of Appeal ruling.   It is alleged t...

Extradition to the United States requires prima facie evidence that the suspect has committed a crime.   New Zealand judges are proving t...

In a ruling with implications for proportionate sales of commercial property, a substance-over-form approach has been adopted by the Supre...

Investors backing the Chrisco Hamper business looked to have fallen out with allegations of secret side deals surfacing in litigation betw...

Property values in relationship disputes are to be fixed as at the date of the first court hearing.   Long-running litigation following a ...

Business restructuring can result in a new employer taking over existing employment contracts.   Transferring employees might negotiate ne...

Government encouragement for inwards capital investment has been boosted by a broad Court of Appeal interpretation of what amounts to appr...

Pyne Gould Corporation is winding down its public borrowing through Perpetual Trustee after getting its hand smacked following allegations...

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...