Mike Ross Law Blog

Adolescence is a time for asserting independence and for testing boundaries. In a High Court challenge to rules governing hair length at St...

The Court of Appeal has set parameters for warring parties within dysfunctional Greymouth Petroleum to negotiate the sale of a 13.8 per cen...

A legal spat between two overseas millionaires over ownership of Huka Lodge has returned to the New Zealand courts. Once they were friend...

Despite a last-ditch offer of an out of court settlement by Auckland City nervous that the Supreme Court would rule against it in a leaky h...

Mangawhai ratepayers got sympathy but not much more in their High Court challenge to cost blowouts exceeding $20 million on their local sew...

Insolvency practitioners chasing down funds for creditors of the Mainzeal Group are having their difficulties pinning down Richard Yan, the...

Hugh Edward Staples Hamilton, lawyer and former mayor of Central Hawkes Bay, has been convicted of being party to theft by a person in a sp...

The FMA acted properly and in the public interest when intervening in legal arguments over how much Hanover Finance director Mark Hotchin c...

Home detention imposed by the Court of Appeal on former directors of Lombard Finance has been set aside by the Supreme Court.  Sentences of...

It is easy to spend money when it is other people’s money: a maxim exemplified by the Historic Places Trust claiming domain over earthquake...

The High Court has declared Vincent Ross Siemer a vexatious litigant.  Without first getting court approval, he is barred from taking legal...

Lack of rules governing class actions has left Feltex shareholders wandering through a maze as they attempt to recover compensation for all...

Eight million dollars paid in return for a promise not to compete could be retained as separate property when selling a health food busines...

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...