Mike Ross Law Blog

  IAG Insurance and Graeme Moore were nearly two million dollars apart in agreeing the insurance payout on a Christchurch home damaged twice...

  Long-standing family bakery and café Il Forno in Auckland’s trendy Ponsonby has seen legal fisticuffs behind the scenes; Andrew Kleine fen...

  Medicann touted plans to develop and commercialise medical cannabis when seeking two million dollars private investment capital in 2018.  ...

  Outdated technical standards for farm fertiliser were the weapon of choice between competitors Ballance and Quin disputing the validity of...

  Complaining that fellow investor Peter Murphy held a pistol to their heads to extract an extra four million dollars on sale of their Queen...

  Auckland financier Commercial Factors, owned by the Haydon family, stuck with a Tongan hotel it does not want failed in High Court legal a...

  More evidence that having too much money can bring misery; Erceg family members are in court arguing over their late mother’s former home ...

  Family ties are strong on the West Coast, but not between cousins the Minehans and the McGuigans with ongoing disputes over operation of a...

  Working from a shed at the back of his Auckland property, Kevin Parkinson manufactured Namuru GPS receivers and provided electrical engine...

  Mihiteria King’s film company Blacklime Ltd used a circuitous route to pay wages for her son, allegedly part of scheme allowing him to esc...

  Attempts to bankrupt Mainzeal director Richard Yan are on hold while he appeals a High Court order to pay $18 million damages for his role...

  Multiple breaches of money-laundering legislation coupled with efforts to frustrate Internal Affairs investigations resulted in fines tota...

  Otago farmer Tony Haines was ordered to pay Heartland Bank $754,200 after a bank loan was called up because Mr Haines failed to pay stock ...

  In a decade long relationship, model Kylie Bax and fashion photographer Spyridon Poros lived variously in Los Angeles, New York, Athens, S...

  Accident Compensation successfully appealed a High Court test case requiring ACC to compensate all adverse medical outcomes.  Accident com...

Estate of Auckland financial adviser Mark Norrie has been frozen following allegations he deceitfully rerouted funds from a planned Queenst...

  Bay of Islands real estate agent Dianne Wynyard failed in a claim to commissions totalling $457,000 earned by former business associate Ir...

One million dollars lent to Craig Johnson as beneficiary of a family trust is centre of a relationship property dispute as estranged spouse...

Scott family interests from Oropi, near Tauranga, failed in their claim Malaysian investor Thean Kai Sheung owed $1.17 million for harvesti...

Nine years after the Stalkers paid $1.35 million buying a sheep and beef farm in north Otago from Phil Duncan, they were awarded $515,000 d...

Tim Gordon pushed the boundaries after agreeing to a restraint of trade when selling Trans-Space Industries for $1.92 million and then prom...

Schemes to remediate leaky apartment buildings must have ‘broad support’ before costs can be forced onto unwilling owners.  Remediation of ...

Land taken under the Public Works Act but now surplus to Auckland’s Waterview tunnel connection should first be offered back to the origina...

Corporate owners of unit title offices with unpaid levies can avoid threats of winding up by offering mortgage security for delayed payment...

There was a practical solution enabling her to inherit, but Larissa Sabin made the point that while pakeha-inspired adoption law deemed her...

Hawkes Bay olive grower Matapiro Olives was liable under a ‘take or pay’ contract to pay Wairarapa processor Olive Press a $129,300 process...

Liquor industry specialist Drink Tank Ltd was told to sue in Australia on its US$10.1 million claim for alleged negligence in a forced buy ...

Thomas Lochore was refused discharge without conviction after pleading guilty to benefit fraud whilst a commerce student at Waikato Univers...

Deloitte’s Auckland office had liquidator’s fees for a straightforward company liquidation slashed by the High Court after charging large a...