06 June 2013

Insurance: NZ Local Authority Disaster Fund v. New India Assurance

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The High Court ordered reinsurer New India to pay $17.5 million on claims for earthquake damage to infrastructure assets suffered by Wa...
23 May 2013

Dominion Finance & North South Finance: R. Cropp

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Paul William Cropp, formerly chief executive officer of the Dominion Finance Group, has been sentenced to two years seven months impris...
03 May 2013

Hanover: Hotchin v. Sheppard

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Two Hanover directors who allege they have been defamed by shareholder activist Bruce Sheppard obtained a High Court order that the trial ...
12 April 2013

Dominion & North South: R. v. Whale, Cropp & another

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Paul William Cropp, CEO of both Dominion Finance Group and North South Finance, has been convicted of theft by a person in a special relat...
05 April 2013

Insurance: O'Loughlin v. Tower Insurance

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In a test case on the “repair in red” proposal by one insurance company following the Christchurch earthquakes, the High Court ruled an in...
27 March 2013

Insolvency: re Contract Engineering Ltd

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Creditors of an insolvent company resisting liquidators’ demands to repay money received in the two years prior to liquidation need to do ...
15 March 2013

Capital + Merchant: R. v. Ryan, Sutherland & Tallentire

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Three directors of finance company Capital + Merchant have been sentenced after pleading guilty to Securities Act offences.   Over two yea...
05 March 2013

Tax avoidance: Alesco v. CIR

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Inland Revenue decisively won round two in a tax avoidance test case centred on use of hybrid securities to finance transactions.   The Co...

Tax advisors: Alesco v. CIR

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Creative use of tax rules is getting short shrift from the courts with criticism aimed at tax advisors who promote the schemes and then st...
27 February 2013

Mighty River Power: Maori Council v. Attorney-General

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Maori interests failed to convince the Supreme Court that partial privatisation of Mighty River Power will materially impair government ab...
11 February 2013

Extradition: Radhi v. Police

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An alleged people smuggler wanted in Australia following the deaths of illegal immigrants who drowned when their boat sank off Indonesia c...