Mike Ross Law Blog

Using a series of ‘phoenix’ companies to cheat creditors of his Auckland business trading as Compass Roofing in what was labelled as deliber...

As a discretionary beneficiary in the Lambie Trust, Prudence Addleman wants to know why $44 million dollars of trust money was paid across t...

Homes built on Maori freehold land cannot be seized under proceeds of crime legislation even if built using ill-gotten gains, the High Court...

A decades old family dispute again surfaced with sale of Whataroa Hotel on the West Coast to pay rates arears. Patrick Dennehy’s claim to $1...

Evading tax leaves taxpayers open to all undeclared taxable revenue being confiscated as proceeds of crime together with any assets purchase...

Deer farmers Steve Borland and Bob Sharp recovered $371,000 damages following purchase of their Oparau farm, near Kawhia.  Vendor Robert Gra...

Property developer Tony Gapes was ordered to pay $286,200 damages to civil engineers Dempsey Wood after his Springpark development in Auckla...

On their mother’s death, three siblings agreed to pool their inheritances enabling disabled brother Stephen to continue living in the family...

Dennis Bartulovic and sister Winnie rented out three shops in Auckland suburb Ellerslie, a commercial holding built up from the profits of t...

Former Bay of Plenty contractor Haoyu Gao was ordered to pay $12 million dollars for illegally exporting kiwifruit budwood to China.  Zespri...

Works of art produced during a relationship are relationship property as also is copyright in the finished product, the High Court ruled in ...

High Court appointed interim liquidators to Warkworth Holdings Ltd after allegations high-profile investors Todd Strathdee and Andrew Guest ...

West Coast miner Allan Birchfield has been strongly advised to accept a reasonable offer for his 25 per cent shareholding in Birchfield Hold...

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...