Mike Ross Law Blog

Stan Semenoff Logging Ltd’s Northland operation habitually overloaded its trucks.  High Court evidence identified that some 11,700 out of 1...

Increased tourism to the Chathams makes access to cultural sites commercially valuable.  Claims to mana whenua do not create property right...

One brother failed in his claim that repayment of a million dollar loan from his brother was frustrated because of difficulties in completi...

Straining basic tenets of contract law, Justice Gault accepted variations to a Gloria Jean’s Coffee franchise were enforceable despite oper...

Owners of adjoining cross-leased units on Auckland’s North Shore in dispute over parking arrangements and the refurbishment of one unit wer...

An adjudicator’s Construction Act determination intended to settle a dispute over construction of a Northland house was quashed because of ...

Former UCFX Ltd employees: James Terry, Brent Colbert and Scott Maynard, were ordered to pay $681,200 damages for conspiracy after attempti...

Wrongly claiming GST had to be paid on a $2.43 million property deal is costing Auckland property company Y&P NZ Ltd $980 a day in inte...

Penalties totalling $1.4 million were imposed after Yat Ming Lau was sentenced to seven years imprisonment for illegally importing pseudoep...

Ten months home detention for Deepak Yogesh Lal after forging safety compliance certificates was confirmed by the High Court. In December...

Former police officer Shaun Joseph Keenan is to serve at least half of a three year eight month fraud sentence before eligible for parole. ...

Admitting to benefit fraud and dealing in cannabis, Richard James Nicholls and Sarah Michelle Nicholls agreed to pay $134,000 in a negotiat...

Two property companies part-owned by Chinese offshore interests were ordered to pay fines totalling $123,000 after breaching the Overseas I...

Convicted on seven charges of importation and supply of controlled drug N-ethylpentylone, Matthew Aaron Rowland surrendered assets to the v...

Unsuccessful in a complaint against Auckland real estate agent Barfoot and Thompson filed with the Real Estate Agents Disciplinary Committe...

A promise to ‘honour your mother’s wishes’ was not enough to establish existence of mutual wills when stepchildren sued unsuccessfully to r...

Development economists point to lack of secure title to land as a common feature holding back economic growth in third world countries.  At...

‘The greatest betrayal I have ever experienced:’ Sir Peter Jackson commenting on frauds perpetrated by former employee Eugene John DeMarco....

What South Waikato District described as a ‘pre-emptive strike’ blocking the Tokoroa purchase of a potential Head Hunters’ ‘gang pad’ saw C...

With a seventy per cent interest sold to Cambridge Stud in 2018 for $2.1 million, stallion  Highly Recommended  stands at the centre of a l...

Facing a rupture to online banking facilities after Credit Union Baywide moved to consolidate control, Co-op Money NZ had the High Court bl...

Paul Yarrow’s 2017 bankruptcy on a $14.8 million Westpac guarantee was confirmed by the Court of Appeal.  In successive claims, Mr Yarrow a...

Accident Compensation needs to reconsider weekly compensation payments due an Auckland hairdresser after the High Court overruled repayment...

After issuing trespass notices and calling for police assistance over an eight year period, all to no avail, owners of Taranaki Maori freeh...

Unless there is a countervailing customer benefit, retail vouchers which cannot be exchanged for cash or which expire after twelve months a...

Chased to New Zealand on debts allegedly arising from his failed Korean construction company, Jae Ho Huh hid from pursuers appearing in cou...

Insurance industry tactics of ‘deny, delay and dispute’ saw the Court of Appeal sharply criticise industry attempts to run out of town star...

Errol Anderson, founding trustee and former registrar of NZ Trustees Association, was ordered to pay $8000 and the Association itself pay $...

Fines in excess of one million dollars imposed for breaches of the Fisheries Act were followed with proceeds of crime penalties totalling $...