Mike Ross Law Blog

Recognising that its ruling might open future political claims by Maori for resource rents on water used to generate hydroelectric power, t...

Policy wording enabled a Christchurch building owner with an underinsured property recover more than the amount nominally insured because a...

The dominant headline message in any advertisement must not be misleading the Court of Appeal ruled.  It is a breach of the Fair Trading Ac...

After gaining total management control in 2006 of the 12,000 seat Vector Arena in Auckland, the Australian-based Jacobsen family has cheerf...

Kim Dotcom has been forced to disclose the extent and value of his worldwide assets to Hollywood film companies who allege he profited from...

While not directly involved in management of failed finance company Belgrave Finance, Hawkes Bay lawyer Hugh Edward Staples Hamilton receiv...

Stalled Treaty negotiations between government and Waikato iwi are hampering operations at the Glenbrook steel mill owned by Australian lis...

An immediate paper profit of some $217,000 was at stake when a company controlled by two chartered accountants with Gilligan Rowe and Assoc...

The legal profession is placed in a special position when it comes to defamation: anything said in court and everything said or written whe...

Having given up her own career to support her husband in his career as a medical specialist, a former nurse was awarded seventy per cent of...

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...