Mike Ross Law Blog

For him the alias is Smith; for her the alias is Jones: judicial disguises used in the High Court to discreetly hide identities of the succ...

An estate agent’s failure to tell his client that a second potential buyer was interested in a Maketu kiwifruit orchard cost PGG Wrightson ...

He was one of law firm Buddle Finlay’s most valuable clients generating fee income in excess of ten million dollars over a fourteen year pe...

It was the views of an 86 year old matriarch that won out in a dispute over the sale of eleven hectares of valuable land on the outskirts o...

While Allan Hubbard, the autocrat controlling South Canterbury Finance, developed a sainted reputation as benefactor for good causes his fi...

Increased rents demanded by Cornwall Park Trust on its leased properties look to be too high when no bids were received for a Maungakiekie ...

Wellington accounting firm Accountants First Ltd has been removed from the list of Inland Revenue approved tax agents after convictions for...

The High Court dismissed claims by Chinese importer Shanghai Neudorf that Zespri was obliged to compensate it for fines totalling eight mil...

It was a dispute over repairs to only part of a small Wellington retaining wall but the Earthquake Commission poured a lot of resources int...

The over three thousand disgruntled Feltex investors who joined a class action demanding compensation after the 2004 public float were left...

Masterminds behind a commercial fraud against investors in Belgrave Finance have been ordered to pay $8.6 million dollars damages following...

Where an insurance policy provides for automatic reinstatement of cover following loss then cover does continue without a break.  If an ins...

A High Court challenge failed to overturn a trespass notice issued by Ports of Auckland against a former employee it alleges was disrupting...

ASB Bank is under investigation for tax avoidance over investments in Japanese bonds.  Following a preliminary court hearing, the High Cour...

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...