Mike Ross Law Blog

Nelson agrichemical supplier Adama paid thirteen million dollars compensation following crop damage to apples caused by contaminated fungic...

Putting fishing ITQ into a family trust was easy, getting out caused heartbreak and heavy legal expenses as Wellington’s Ruocco family foun...

Having agreed collaboration with a neighbouring developer to complete infrastructure works for a Special Housing Area development in west A...

Potential deportation was not grounds for India national Krishna Malapaka being discharged without conviction following thefts from credit ...

Marketing meets law: related party debt was used as a teaser to get creditors onside in an Insolvency Act part-payment scheme offering cred...

Scene One apartment owners on leasehold land in central Auckland failed in their bid to force $35 million remediation costs on to managemen...

Seeking to enforce a claimed ten per cent interest in a west Auckland property development, it was not clear whether Chunhong Xie was part-...

Sunil Chand was sentenced to six months night time curfew for paying a backhander to an Auckland City employee corruptly pushing office sup...

Finding that the facts supposedly supporting a one-sided relationship property agreement between a couple married in Russia appeared contra...

After six years unpaid part-time work on the Scobie family farm in Taranaki, daughter Jan-Marie was awarded $163,500 but could not claim th...

Access to justice is a human right, but there are limits said the Court of Appeal when facing yet another court hearing in a line of sixty ...

Owing some $478,000, part of on an agreed out of court settlement in litigation over Biomex’s Marlborough Sounds mussel farming operation, ...

Worksafe attempts to lever greater earnings related compensation for accident victims through Health and Safety prosecutions were knocked b...

Gulled by an apparent fraud, Basecorp Finance is turning on its head the company law ‘indoor management’ rule seeking to enforce a million ...

Chaos followed in the wake of Bimlesh Ram, an entrepreneur described as having ‘a spotty business record.’  A debt factoring contract was v...

With legal costs in excess of $2.5 million after facing down now abandoned legal action over unpaid Chinese import duties, Zespri Internati...

Former Auckland City employee Sundeep Kilip Rasila was sentenced to five and a half months home detention for corruption after giving a fri...

Bowing to demands by niece Lara Unkovich that a $65,000 bequest from of her late grandfather’s estate be paid out early to support a tennis...

High profile restauranteur Leo Molloy failed in attempts to use trademark law’s ‘use it or lose it’ rules in a backdoor attempt to prise th...

Used by long time friend Raymond Smith as a foil to hide property development profits from Inland Revenue and also to hide assets from his ...

While parents had gone a long way in supporting a son with personal and mental health issues, the High Court ruled his mother did not have ...

Fletcher Construction was ordered to pay contractor Electrix an extra $7.4 million dollars, the consequences of Fletcher’s mismanagement of...

Beneficiaries of Percy Family Trust which is part owner of the Hawkes Bay farm where Shilo Stud breeds Santa Gertrudis cattle allege brothe...

Machinery is now in place to force compulsory licensing of insolvency specialists and the back biting is starting. The High Court dismissed...

Café Brioche formerly trading at Takapuna on Auckland’s North Shore was ordered to pay $272,500 damages for misrepresenting turnover when s...