Mike Ross Law Blog

Canterbury barrister and solicitor Murray Ian Withers was disbarred from practice after being found guilty of professional misconduct when ...

Air New Zealand had its wings clipped when it miscalculated the tax effect from purchasing the “tail” of a Boeing 747 lease.  Attempts to r...

Statements by Tower Insurance that it would always act reasonably when dealing with clients were quickly dismissed by the Court of Appeal. ...

Court-appointed liquidators were reinstated after allegations that voting on the appointment of a replacement liquidator was rigged to curt...

Failing to arrange insurance cover for clients and then dishonestly stating that he had done so meant an insurance broker was liable for hi...

Orthopaedic surgeon Gregory Dale Finch has been ordered to pay $1.08 million for unpaid medical supplies and further ordered to pay extra c...

Auckland ratepayers face a ten million dollar cost to remove contaminated subsoil before completing redevelopment of the Wynyard Quarter, s...

Company directors everywhere are urgently renegotiating terms of their liability insurance following Supreme Court rulings in the Bridgecor...

The chaotic state of Alan Hubbard’s investment empire was laid bare when a US investor sued to prove her entitlement to $5.5 million.  Hubb...

Bridgecorp receivers were playing within the rules said the Supreme Court when they obtained judgement for over $65,000 against a lawyer wi...

Insurers have been held to the strict wording of the policy in a claim by a substantial commercial property owner in Christchurch who owns ...

Perpetual Trust pre-empted an investor mutiny by having the High Court unilaterally remove it as trustee of a host of failed finance compan...

One creditor’s unsuccessful High Court challenge to Solid Energy’s capital restructuring has exposed how government held a pistol to the ba...

Taxable income was increased by over $63 million after the Court of Appeal ruled against attempts by Sovereign Assurance to exploit timing ...

A Christchurch couple increased their earthquake insurance payout by over $100,000 after a dogged battle against Southern Response Eart...

The 46 self-styled Quake Outcasts received little comfort from the Court of Appeal as owners of uninsured property in the Christchurch ...