Mike Ross Law Blog

Former JP Morgan Chase CEO Rob Lewis’ $498,000 claim alleging injurious falsehood and negligent misstatement was dismissed by the High Cour...

Living rent-free on land owned by a family trust and growing produce for her own use and roadside sale did not give Sophie Lai any right to...

Vero’s exclusion clause in a construction-works insurance policy denying liability for defective workmanship did not exclude damage to wind...

Technical deficiencies in ‘pay now argue later’ Construction Contracts Act payment claims do not invalidate payment demands, but gross over...

Businessman Lofty Surridge died in December 2016 leaving an estate valued at some $8.6 million.  Daughter Anne on one side and son Paul wit...

Te Kuiti accounting firm Smith Mitchell had a freezing order imposed over assets owned by former employee Sharon Bradley after allegations ...

Insolvency Service is chasing down bankrupts using other people’s bank accounts to hide income which should be disclosed. When demanded, ba...

Shane Ray Stallard duped Glenfield acquaintance Lynda Ellice out of her $500,000 lotto winnings claiming he was seriously ill with cancer, ...

Companies controlled by contractor Paddy Hannan are in liquidation with liquidators looking to recover from Mr Hannan personally costs of d...

With the first of its planned ninety residential apartments on the market, Auckland’s International on Princes Street is in court trying to...

Body corporate managers owe no general legal duties to individual apartment owners.  If they have stuffed up, it is for the body corporate ...

Allegations that up to eight million dollars are missing led Financial Markets Authority to freeze accounts controlled by Dunedin financial...

Maori Trustee has taken possession of disputed land at Rautawhiri Station near Gisborne following the arrests of occupiers Bruce Smith, Rub...

A Companies Act compulsory buy-out for minority shareholders in Wellington property company Vey Group Ltd was ordered by the High Court fol...

William Robert Eskdale and Michael William Eskdale, directors of insolvent Northland freight-forwarder Esko Group Ltd, were held jointly li...

Sentences imposed on lawyer Gang Chen and bank employee Zongliang Jiang for their part in a $54 million dollar mortgage fraud were upheld o...

Tongan government is being sued in New Zealand for $US1.4 million remaining unpaid after linking to the Pacific-wide Hawaiki submarine cabl...

Deanna Trevarthen died aged 45, thirteen months after being diagnosed with mesothelioma, a fatal cancer caused by exposure to asbestos.  De...

Split 3:2, the Supreme Court denied Ruiren Xu’s claim demanding IAG Insurance pay replacement cost on an earthquake-damaged Christchurch pr...

Lynx Trustees Ltd, associated with frequent Wellington litigant Harry Memelink, faces liquidation if it fails to pay $289,000 owed the body...

McConnell Ltd has to pay Ministry of Education $1.1 million as a contribution towards government legal costs in its ‘leaky building’ claim ...

Fictitious trade transactions were concocted by Siu Shun Ho and Christopher John Christie in a ‘money-go-round’ defrauding ANZ bank to get ...

ANZ Bank faced heavy criticism over its miss-selling of swap contracts to farmers, with the Court of Appeal overriding disclaimer clauses w...

FIFA’s Oceania federation was ordered to pay $411,900 due on construction of its Auckland-based training facility while alleging the constr...

Michael Chua Khian Keng, sometime motor racing enthusiast based in Palmerston North, is alleged to have embezzled $26.5 million from Malays...

High Court approved an agreed Commerce Commission settlement having dairy technology firm GEA Milfos pay a $825,000 fine for fixing prices ...

Ordered to pay $545,000 compensation, Vernon Ruwhiu had promised to manage Takangaroa Moanaroa’s retirement savings.  Instead, he used her ...

It all turned on placement of a comma. Was The Phone Company entitled to a one per cent commission in perpetuity on all telco M2’s net rece...

Chinese investor Long Capital Holdings forfeited deposits totalling $2.61 million after pulling the plug on plans to build part of Queensto...

A $190,000 gift made eighteen months before death was treated as an advance on a daughter’s legacy, deducted from her share as a beneficiar...