Mike Ross Law Blog

Autoterminal was refused an interim injunction blocking Hohua Hemi from supplying Japanese used car imports for 2 Cheap Cars, allegedly in ...

CBL Insurance directors’ Peter Harris and Alistair Hutchison were described by Justice Courtney as lacking commercial probity, manipulating...

Having Social Development as a motel’s sole customer using motel units to temporarily accommodate beneficiaries did not change the site’s u...

Claims for payment on a Blue Chip litigation funding agreement by financier Terry Haydon failed.  Allegations Blue Chip liquidators Meltzer...

Waterstone Insolvency has the difficult task of unravelling fluid financing arrangements for a lifestyle subdivision at Hakaru between Kaiw...

Augustine Lau’s two year’s imprisonment was upheld by the High Court for his multiple resource management and building offences committed o...

Attempted use of receivership as leverage by property developer Gregory Olliver in an acrimonious relationship property dispute with his fo...

The extent to which Maori land reparation claims extend to resources owned by state-owned enterprises and other Crown entities is gaining m...

Sold by politicians as protection for sub-contractors, changes to the Construction Contracts Act requiring contract retentions to be held ‘...

Despite personally owning no property in New Zealand and spending on average eight months a year at sea, China Navigation captain Gerardus ...

Inland Revenue’s claim that Frucor’s capital restructuring amounted to tax avoidance was dismissed by the High Court. Tax deductions totall...

NRS Media Holdings won twice over; exempt foreign income totalling $3.67 million tumbled into the till while it was also able to claim expe...

After pleading guilty to methamphetamine supply and sentenced to six year’s jail, Boon Hooi Cheah will have assets seized following a High ...

While farmer Marcelyn Barnes prided herself on keeping family finances well recorded, her practice of mixing together business and personal...

Worldclear looks to have pinned down all but $720,000 of the $4.6 million former employee Richard Witham is alleged to have stolen when fle...

Three years after Geoff and Aria Small built equestrian facilities on their South Auckland lifestyle block, neighbours turned on them.  The...

Having purchased a fifty per cent stake in Whitford Properties Ltd at public auction enforcing a court judgment, Owen Harnish is suspicious...

Chris Gillibrand’s legal action against his solicitor for allegedly not curtailing a ‘hopeless’ legal defence to claims from Bupa for $53,0...

It was commercially absurd to argue wholesaler Petroleum Logistics Ltd had agreed to charge Whitianga reseller Acme Fasteners the ex-Singap...

After being twice-married to the same man with both marriages subsequently dissolved, Theresa Cossio was in court claiming a share of forme...

Sydney company director Gabriel Ehrenfeld barred by ASIC from managing any Australian corporation for five years from 2016 but not before h...

The Court of Appeal forced full disclosure of SkyCity’s recoveries from fraudster Tessa Fiona Grant before reducing her jail term to six ye...

For over two decades Robert Stone and Hohua Hemi built up their business exporting used cars from Japan to New Zealand and other countries....

A speculative insurance claim by litigation funder Risk Worldwide New Zealand that commercial buildings in Christchurch could be destroyed ...

Vintners Stephen and Wendy Parkes were convicted of selling product in breach of the Customs and Excise Act after their Sentry Hill winery ...

'Proceeds of crime’ confiscations extend to assets held overseas.  Convicted for possession and sale of class C drugs, Allen Bryan Cho ...