Mike Ross Law Blog

Councils are responsible for damage caused by trees on their land where proper inspection would have identified rot and risk of falls with ...

Rusting solar energy storage systems installed on Auckland homes led Vector to sue California supplier Sunverge Energy for US$5.2 million. ...

Maori educationalist Toni Waho can hold his head high.  Vindicated by the High Court for bringing allegations of fraud within Te Pataka Oha...

Sometime Hells Pizza franchise holder Matt Blomfield failed in his claim for damages against former business associate Paul Claydon over th...

Brother has fallen out with brother in the face of declining profitability for their Auckland marine chandlery business.  Faced with increa...

Family trust discretionary beneficiaries cannot challenge trust operations; they have no precise right to trust assets, only an ‘expectancy...

Discharged from bankruptcy in July 2018, David John Hampton has been disqualified from managing any business for the next four years after ...

Landlords owning an apartment contaminated by methamphetamine manufacture were awarded $299,000 for lost rentals and decontamination costs....

While not conceding he is guilty of tax evasion, Yu Ping Gong agreed to surrender six tenanted properties having a net value of $4.9 millio...

Convicted of fraud in Australia and bankrupt in New Zealand, Rebecca Ange Kennedy was ordered to repay $653,000 stolen in a property swindl...

With a history of dishonesty, Isaac Rapana was sentenced to three years four months jail for frauds against his employer totalling just ove...

Convicted of manslaughter six years after lying to police about the circumstances of her husband’s death, Susan Mouat was forced to surrend...

Former Georgia Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili was told New Zealand courts were the wrong venue for recovery of some $US125 million inve...

With dwindling membership and $515,000 in the bank, Friends of Auckland Art Gallery is flying under the radar with an un-advertised  de fac...

Status as an ‘employee’ does not require a bilateral employer/employee relationship, the Court of Appeal held, ruling staff working fulltim...

Trend Publishing’s debt compromise is dead in the water following a Supreme Court hearing.  Manipulation of creditor classes for voting and...

Telcos are getting nervous about Clearspan Property taking control of multiple cellphone tower sites giving it greater negotiating leverage...

Amphibious boat supplier Sealegs is chasing across the seven seas those rivals copying its unique system of using retractable legs enabling...

It is open warfare at Raumati Dental Centre in Paraparaumu as the new lock horns with the old.  Rudayna Ibrahim and Hayder Al-Sabak have jo...

Maitland Booth, former director of Heyward Holdings Ltd (now in liquidation) has been ordered to pay $566,940 to his former company.  The H...

A seven-year ban for director of failed property developer Valiant Homes Ltd, Hamish James Clarke, was upheld by the High Court. Valiant ...

In February 2015, Taranaki aviation enthusiast Brett Emeny paid $90,000, strapped himself into a vintage Trojan T28 ‘war bird’ and flew hom...

Investors claim they were shafted by ASX-listed Bluescope Steel when bidding to buy Bluescope’s Taharoa iron sand mining business on North ...

Enquries into ‘cheating services’ offering tailored assignments to students led police to an apparent mortgage fraud.  Several days into a ...

Police can impound assets in New Zealand suspected to be proceeds of crimes committed overseas.  Xiao Hua Gong, also known as Edward Gong, ...

Under pressure from regional head office Ferrari Australasia to shift a prescribed quota of vehicles, Auckland dealer Continental Car Servi...

With revenue in excess of two million dollars for the 2015 and 2016 financial years, labour hire business Klavenes Construction Ltd operate...