Mike Ross Law Blog

A $2.8 million damages claim for breach of a forestry contract hangs in the balance after Marlborough District Council advised no further re...

Arguments over who ‘won’ and who ‘lost’ in estate litigation over a $1.3 million Northland property centred on wording of ‘Calderbank’ lette...

For holiday pay calculations in the tourism industry, commission payments are ‘earned’ when the activity is booked, not when the customer pa...

Voluntary administration disrupts contractors who do not get Construction Contract Act charging orders registered in time.  They remain unse...

Wages must be paid in cash or credit to a bank account, unless otherwise agreed.  Help for a mate came unstuck when courts ruled a transfer ...

Christchurch earthquake litigation specialist Claims Resolution Service together with lawyers Grant Shand are facing a class action from dis...

Raised by a solo dad in tight financial circumstances, Elijah Taylor made it in the tough professional arena of rugby league playing for the...

While upholding eight years ten months imprisonment for Barry Edward Kloogh’s $15.7 million Ponzi fraud, the High Court overturned a five mi...

Just supervising another contractors’ work is sufficient to incur workplace Health & Safety liability.  WorkSafe took a test case to the...

After getting a wide-ranging court order to seize business records from a rival construction business set up by former general manager Haemi...

Informal nature of Chinese adoption law proved critical in a dispute between two families over inheritance of a house in south Auckland.  Qi...

Frucor’s V energy drink and Energy Beverages’ Monster Energy both feature colour green as distinctive markings on their product.  Legal argu...

Manuka honey is the new gold. Whanganui neighbours are at war with allegations of ‘boundary stacking;’ placing hives on boundaries to harves...

For the Zadeh family it was the tenant from hell when property agents installed a member of the Nomad gang as tenant in their Richmond inves...

In an insurance test case, the High Court ruled a licensed driver supervising a learner driver is not ‘in charge’ of the vehicle if asleep i...

Described as a generous sentence, the High Court confirmed a community detention sentence for recidivist fraudster Brian Damian Hunter after...

Six years after private investigator Mark Walker left Alligator Security alleging business colleague Paul Coffey had misrepresented Alligato...

Seven years after Maurice O’Reilly agreed to pitch in and financially assist old school friend Stuart Morrison the two were in court bitterl...

Frustrated by Evan Stewart’s failure to provide detailed financial information about Eversons International, his insolvent legal-high busine...

Status of a redeemed $250,000 life assurance policy raised legal arguments about ademption on death of Faye Leslie Taylor in 2018.  Did the ...

After promising to pay SPCA $50,000 as a mark of remorse and pleading guilty to consumer fraud when re-packaging over three million eggs lai...

Accused of downloading and selling pirated movies, Hamilton-based Jaron David McIvor surrendered bank accounts holding $818,000 and control ...

Forced liquidation of a family company was refused by the High Court as it would force one spouse out of their Motueka family home.  A court...

Allegedly part of $US119 million embezzled from Venezuela’s state-owned oil company, the Court of Appeal confirmed $US11.85 million held in ...

In financial difficulty and bankrupt with trustees of a family trust refusing to help, Pauline Harrison challenged actions taken by trustees...

What was a backdoor attempt to protect a profit share agreement benefitting bankrupt property developer Mark Ensom to the tune of four milli...

Yongnan Kang, former director and shareholder of Auckland-based One Pure International Group Ltd, claims a $1.7 million court judgment issue...