Mike Ross Law Blog

Wrongfully locked out of premises set up as Imaxx Café & Bistro at Parakai near Helensville, Madhan Bisht’s claim to some $66,000 damage...

Shaojun Wang needed a court order to prevent her Auckland investment property being sold to recover money colleague Qian Zhang stole from Ne...

Suspecting some claims underwritten on a marine cargo policy for used cars exported to New Zealand from Japan were for vehicles already dama...

With extended Chinese family spread across several generations and living in four different continents, the High Court ruled legal dispute o...

Discretionary bonuses do not form part of gross earnings for calculation of holiday pay where the employer truly has a discretion whether to...

Allowing customers to keep derivative trading positions open when Halifax went bust did not mean they personally kept investment gains accru...

Three years on from the collapse of Accent On Construction Ltd’s new build in Auckland for Housing New Zealand, Accent director Ian Fistonic...

Lockdown restrictions keeping an Auckland restaurant closed was no defence to Inland Revenue forcing liquidation for unpaid tax debts totall...

Auckland surgeon Mark Gittos was ordered to pay $33,900 damages after backing out of an agreement to sell a McLaren Formula One body shell. ...

F ailing to push on with a court case filed some nine years previously alleging embezzlement was dismissed for want of prosecution; part of ...

She ran a string of racehorses and managed the Kumara town dump.  Now long-time West Coast identity Eileen Topliss claimed she was harassed ...

When Denise Ellis died in 2019 she bequeathed $4.2 million to her brother Martin.  Siblings of her late husband sued.  She had agreed with h...

High profile insolvency practitioner Damien Grant gained wide publicity and some sympathy fighting for registration as an insolvency special...

Over a period of 28 years Ken Bolton not only failed to finalise his late father’s estate but lived in one of the properties rent free while...

Convicted of failing to properly manage effluent discharges from his Marlborough dairy farms, Philip John Woolley sued Fonterra for some two...

Raymond Law was nicked mid-afternoon breaking into machines at a self-service laundromat carrying in his bag a chisel, hammer, crowbar and …...

Attempts to enforce in New Zealand a $23 million judgment of a China court has New Zealand courts in a bind. Can it be considered a court ju...

Wairarapa beekeeper First Honey NZ Ltd has been ordered to hand over $492,800 to Whanganui honey producer Settlers Honey Ltd, proceeds of an...

It was a pre-packaged deal: Dayle Walker called up her loan to the Learning Ladder early childhood centre in Auckland that she ran jointly w...

Incorrectly denying she was registered for GST on sale of a commercial property in Auckland cost vendor Caroline Marr $121,600; the irrecove...

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...