Mike Ross Law Blog

Lawyer Ronald Bruce Johnson was suspended from practice for three months after failing to give full advice to ill-informed trustees of a Sa...

Convicted of fraud after milking government guarantees put in place after the 2008 global financial crisis: Paul Bublitz was sentenced to t...

Owning forestry land near Kaitaia, Maori-owned Peria Charitable Trust is accused of selling the same cutting rights twice over.  A Mark Hot...

Facing a seven million dollar penalty for GST and unpaid duty following a customs fraud, Auckland-based vehicle importer Acacia Motorhomes ...

Property manager Jules Consultancy Ltd breached the Fair Trading Act when failing to make full disclosure to potential purchaser Michael Ro...

As loving sons, Huljich brothers drew on the $80 million generated from their 1995 sale of Best Corporation to support mother Elizabeth.  H...

First legal action for breach of Overseas Investment Act ‘good character’ rules saw the High Court approve negotiated penalties of $100,000...

Mark Coggan, joint owner of Superthriller Jet Sprint operating out of Manukau in south Auckland, has been ordered to hand over all Superthr...

Insolvency Service has to bear the cost of a potential $2.41 million GST lability arising from its $18.5 million settlement with auditors o...

Quin Environmentals breached the Fair Trading Act by linking its superphosphate fertiiser to Fertmark accreditation when it did not comply ...

With trustees of Oldfield Family Trust estranged and deadlocked, the High Court removed husband and wife appointing New Zealand Guardian Tr...

With unsecured debts of $566,800 and declared assets of only $3000, John David Sandford’s part-payment Insolvency Act proposal was refused ...

Established to commercialise ice-warning devices for roads, Christchurch-based Solar Bright recovered company assets from founders Patrick ...

To date, the nearly one thousand investors snared in BlackfortFX’s Ponzi fraud have got back thirty cents in the dollar. The High Court has...

Lawyer Kristin Cato alleges  Horse & Pony  magazine defamed her in published comments subsequent to a private mediated settlement which...

Eric Watson’s Cullen group use of tax provisions intended for genuine overseas third party lenders amounted to tax avoidance the High Court...

On home detention, Otaki lawyer Quentin Haines gained a High Court injunction blocking a forced sale of his property by Harry Memelink seek...

Decisions by the director of an insolvent property company to box on and complete houses under construction to sell for a better price were...

Legal fees on all sides totalled over four million dollars.  Of that, fees totalling $1.26 million incurred by estate executors defending u...

Plans by Mainzeal’s Richard Yan for a hotel and vineyard on Waiheke Island hosting Chinese Communist Party officials are at standstill.  Is...

Insolvent for nearly a decade from 2005 through to its collapse in 2013 leaving creditors owed some $110 million, Mainzeal was weakly capit...

Details of an attempted coup by disgruntled members of Auckland’s Gold Line Co-Operative Taxi Society Ltd played out in the High Court.  In...

Shan Ling was ordered to repay $400,000 taken from Apollo Bathroom and Kitchen to pay a personal tax bill.  Her claim the money was owed fo...

A classic case of the big operator screwing the small guy, seeking to reduce market competition: Commerce Commission intervention saw First...

Duoyu Bei claims he is owed $1.28 million; Chao Wang claims he is owed $1.1 million.  The two businessmen are at each other’s throats with ...

Out of the wreckage of South Canterbury Finance, government sold to interests associated with failed property developer David Henderson the...