Mike Ross Law Blog

Raymond Anthony Andrews committed multiple frauds running businesses whilst bankrupt including conviction in 2013 for failure to pay for bea...

Tipare Hokimate Ropitini’s two years three months’ imprisonment was confirmed by the High Court for multiple social welfare frauds over nine...

Learning that former bankrupt Edward Johnston had wrangled a $100,000 concession out of secured creditors claiming rights to his forestry in...

Bronwynne Durney left legal carnage in her wake after splitting with Gabor Kemeny: she borrowed $100,000 to help fund her relationship prope...

It took a High Court order to enforce rights of vehicle access to their Auckland property after owner of a neighbouring flat extended his ou...

Having forfeited a $2.5 million deposit in 2009 to Auckland property developer Parklands Properties, Reynolds family interests had the upper...

Hitching its bandwagon to a low carbon economy and claiming an interest in exploiting solar energy, David Henry’s Kinleith Land & Infras...

The lessor has choice of valuer when owners of leasehold interests want to freehold Freemans Bay townhouses build by Auckland city in the 19...

Properties owned by companies controlled by Auckland property developer Teik Huat Ghee were frozen by High Court order following allegations...

General liquidation creditors should not bear the cost of sorting out entitlements to Construction Contracts Act retentions when the there i...

Body corporate management controlling the high-rise Links apartments at Paraparaumu Beach was described by a High Court judge as being obstr...

Legal action has been taken against King Country accounts clerk Sharon Bradley in an attempt to recover $2.4 million stolen from farming cli...

Born in London, Graham Rowles died at Whangarei in 2017 leaving an estate valued at four million dollars. In an unsigned typewritten note, l...

Daughters Lorraine and Jolene were each awarded $950,000 from their late mother’s $5.4 million estate after left nothing in her will, all as...

Bankrupted once in Australia and twice in New Zealand over a five year period, Hawkes Bay property developer Garth Bowkett Paterson was barr...

It took a High Court order to remove intending purchasers Xing Meng and Huimin Guan from an Auckland property after they were allowed to mov...

Facing a mortgagee sale, Northland contractor Jimmy Daisley was buoyed by an offer from neighbours the Kellers to step in and help with refi...

Having lost $3.2 million lent to Mako Networks, Adam Banks failed in attempts to recover from directors: there was no liability for their re...

At a time of rapidly escalating property values, the Court of Appeal emphasised proceeds of crime legislation allows any capital gain to als...

Attempts to force her husband to the negotiating table in a relationship property dispute failed when the High Court ruled Relationship Prop...

Auckland developer Greg Olliver ran into legal difficulties trying to pick and choose how best to extract money claimed from his failed Auck...

Marrying in Dubai under Sharia law, Rafid Salih paid an immediate bride price of $12,700 to his new wife Rahla Almarzooqi, promising a defer...

With conflicting aims for their joint venture project, Michael McGehan and Jeffrey Clarke fell out, coming to blows over plans for their Te ...

Six hectares of land on the Weiti River near Whangaparaoa Peninsular was settled on a charitable trust by Andrew Weatherspoon in 1901.  His ...

Having warned against the danger of judges departing from the plain wording of commercial contracts, a majority of judges in the Supreme Cou...

With a low risk of reoffending and having taken steps to deal with methamphetamine and gambling addictions, Kelly Samantha Tollemache’s pris...