Mike Ross Law Blog

Minority shareholders in Port Underwood forestry company Marlborough Country Ltd allege Auckland director Frederick Pereira conspired to rip...

The Ombudsman’s office acted unlawfully when not bothering to consider on its merits Financial Services Complaints Ltd’s application to use ...

When buying ex-RAF Wessex helicopters, Mark Ford took a punt on getting Civil Aviation certification to use them for heli-logging operations...

It was not just about the letterbox, but the letterbox proved to be the blue touch paper which set off legal fireworks following a falling o...

Having lost control of Weiti Bay development north of Auckland, Taiwanese investor Tong-Kuang Liu failed in legal arguments that he still ha...

Having a wastrel for a father, Christine and Te Rahui Cowan tried to prevent him selling houses they said should be kept in the family.  The...

Ian Farquharson breached a moral duty owed his only son when he left everything to former wife Opal in a will signed before they had separat...

Accidentally emailing the wrong file to its landlord’s lawyer triggered legal argument over whether there was any agreement forcing Levin Fo...

It was not a breach of privacy for Xero to disclose personal financial transactions of David Henderson’s spouse as part of Insolvency Servic...

Noel Macnamara’s obstructive behaviour in blocking attempts to sell the family home at Karaka, part of a relationship property split, saw th...

A pre-emptive strike in a relationship property dispute by Winton farmer Janeen Drummond in unilaterally taking $78,000 out of their family ...

Promoted as eco-friendly co-operative living, Kotare Village north of Wairoa has collapsed into an avalanche of claims and counter-claims as...

High Court ordered disclosure of patent discussions about PATeye and Dataeye, intelligent road-marking cats eyes providing real time data on...

Heartland Bank is chasing down money used by Andrew Jeffery to purchase property with long-term partner Christina Domecq at a time her busin...

Doctors Vandana Rasela and Shigy Thachankary used differing corporate structures for their two jointly operated medical practices in south A...

Described as erratic, impulsive and lacking empathy, Anne Brosnahan was warned by lawyers preparing her will that failing to properly provid...

Taranaki chartered accountant Tandem Group is suing ASB Bank alleging it failed to properly follow up on forged amendments to a $200,000 che...

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...