Mike Ross Law Blog

Angry that it was the only outside creditor not paid in full, construction company Watts & Hughes took over from liquidator of Christchu...

With legislation clarifying class actions making little progress since 2008, Supreme Court stepped in allowing flexible use of High Court pr...

Construction company Shotcrete (Auckland) is in liquidation with police assistance sought to recover company equipment forcibly removed to B...

Christchurch businessman Evan Stewart transferred $3.1 million to Australia over a twelve month period; cash generated from sale of legal hi...

Convicted fraudster Eugene de Marco was ordered to return a $120,000 deposit paid on a $1.2 million cancelled sale of his Wellington three-l...

Corrections problematic ‘rapid deployment’ of modular prison cells agreed with Decmil Construction in 2017 winds its way through the courts....

Dubai distributor Sky Scrapers claims $US3.6 damages alleging Auckland company Zoono stopped supplying sanitiser when covid-19 spread, inste...

Increased penalties for regulatory offences led to a Court of Appeal review of sentencing rules for corporate offenders.  Harshness of fines...

Street prices for meth at seventy times the price for same quantity of cannabis were quoted by police getting High Court approval for a forc...

Unaware they were beneficiaries of their father’s family trust, estranged children of the late Jack Enright were entitled to a share of Duns...

Black Diamond Technologies’ neighbour on Parliament Street in Lower Hutt was under no obligation to extend time for due diligence on a $1.5 ...

Danny Cancian, director of failed Tauranga builder Bella Vista Homes Ltd, was ordered to pay Carters $1.078 million on his guarantee of buil...

Overseas tourists’ plans to finance their holiday around New Zealand with profits from drug dealing came unstuck when Sven Stephen Harrieder...

Notorious Wellington debtor Harry Memelink, now bankrupt, remains trustee of a family trust owning commercial units on Hutt Road/Wakefield S...

Inland Revenue dismissed as forgeries contractors’ invoices supplied by Surasak Pootinun to support his GST claim when bankrupting him on ta...

Required to pay $860,580, Harkirat Gill and Maher Jammal challenged their guarantee of a Northland Regional Council loan for a Marsden Point...

Auckland lawyer Boon Gunn Hong was refused leave to appeal his striking off for what was described as disgraceful, unprincipled and wrongful...

When her marriage ended, Leanne Little was not entitled to a half share in the net worth of her husband’s funeral business since it was owne...

Assets in family trusts controlled by now-bankrupt businessman Paul Yarrow have been frozen by court order. Insolvency Service alleges asset...

High Court warnings to Leslie Fugle that control of Wellington property company Vey Group Ltd would be taken from him if he did not co-opera...

Wenyan Kuang has been ordered to stop running his own real estate photography business in South Auckland, in breach of his agreement with fr...

Attempts by financially-pressed Cambridge horse stud Linwood Park to do a deal with creditors fell apart when news leaked that Stuart Brauni...

New Zealand’s ‘do it yourself’ tradition does not extend to corporate turnarounds.  It is a breach of director’s duties to self-manage corpo...

It was their German Shepherd cross Louis which gave them away.  An Australian insurer chasing Darryl and Linda Millar tracked them down to I...

Signature Developments acted in a high-handed manner when it tried to railroad investor Robert Downer into purchase of a Pukekohe early chil...

Used-car importer Auto Terminal’s restructuring in 2009 was triggered by a scheme to hide its true financial position; a restructuring which...

  Taken to arbitration after defaulting on long-term UHT milk purchase agreements, Chinese-owned Pengxin Group was ordered to pay Miraka Mil...

Hamilton based Lodge Real Estate and Monarch Real Estate have been ordered to pay price-fixing penalties nearly double that of competitors w...

Potentially liable for fire damage to a rented Auckland property, tenant Kevin Patterson claims his landlord agreed that his money as tenant...