Mike Ross Law Blog

High Court authorised a class action against directors and promoters of Intueri Education’s $175 million public float with allegations infor...

Customers owed $26 million feature in the first liquidators’ report for NF Global, propelled into liquidation by international customers una...

Plans by Queenstown Airport, part-owned by Auckland International Airport, to pre-empt Christchurch International Airport’s development of a...

Challenges to resource management fines imposed for a 2018 ammonia leak killing aquatic life in Christchurch’s Kaputone Creek were dismissed...

With fourteen previous convictions for fraud-related offences, Begum Samuels Farina gained work as an accounts clerk for Horizon Radiology u...

Brother and sister Ivan Erceg and Vinka Sain each claim ownership of an Auckland Epsom property on Withiel Drive with a rating valuation of ...

The concurrent bankruptcy imposed on litigious Wellington debtor Harry Memelink in March 2020 was set aside because debts allegedly due were...

Yang Li claims the amended price on an agreement to sell her south Auckland rental for $1.14 million was simply a ploy to drive up the price...

First use of new powers allowing receivers to take control of deadlocked family trusts was put on hold by the High Court.  In the absence of...

Disgruntled investors owning apartments in the same building as Sofitel Auckland Viaduct Harbour Hotel failed to overturn body corporate rul...

Clumsy legal drafting saw government mistakenly write in a ten million dollar discount on price of properties being purchased by Te Atiawa a...

With no written agreement for their multiple property developments and with movements of money between accounts not clearly documented, two ...

Ground rules for assessing damages following insolvent trading were set down by the Court of Appeal, part of long-running litigation followi...

Foreigners holding a residence class visa must be ‘ordinarily resident’ in New Zealand to avoid being caught as an ‘overseas person’ when it...

With fraud suspected, Callaghan Innovation sued to recover a $383,000 initial instalment on a $17.2 million Science and Innovation grant mad...

Waitangi Tribunal powers to order return of land to iwi could not be used to poach land off another iwi, the High Court decided in a ruling ...

As a negotiating tactic, it failed. Challenged by Commerce Commission that its platform fee was an unreasonable credit charge, Harmoney aske...

Attempting to smuggle cash out of the country should generally result in all the money being confiscated the High Court ruled, sending back ...

Sisters Jazz and Ann Scott want to know what happened to between $200,000 and $400,000 of their mother’s assets that disappeared when under ...

Anmol Seth, falsely representing himself to Auckland’s Hindu community as Lord Anmol, was ordered to refund $239,320 to Mirza Taimoori, mone...

Minority investors in Christchurch’s Parkview on Hagley successfully challenged moves by VR Group to corral hotel common area for its own be...

Within months of selling Trans-Space Industries for $1.92 million and agreeing not to set up a rival business within the next three years, T...

Complaints that investments by Guardians of New Zealand Superannuation in the disputed territory of Western Sahara are unethical failed in t...

Financially overstretched, Simon Francis Scott and Leone Margaret Scott of Beckenham in Christchurch have done a deal with creditors paying ...

Dr Sarah Glassey was blind-sided when she found fellow medical professionals Drs Luc Wee and Anitha Nair had gone behind her back setting up...

Inland Revenue had Auckland property company NSTK Investments Ltd, owned by Navjot Singh Sidhu and Tanvir Kaur, restored to the Companies Re...

Fines totalling $5000 were imposed on Melbourne-based consultant Mark Lester and his company Spud Consulting for contempt of court following...

Station at Waitiri Ltd controlled by developer Tim Edney has upped the ante claiming default interest at $4500 per day from last December af...