Mike Ross Law Blog

Kiwifruit growers class action against government claiming losses of $400 million after PSA bacteria ravaged orchards resulted in a payout o...

Patricia Gemmell was removed as administrator of her late husband’s estate after selling his farm at Raupunga between Napier and Wairoa to h...

Robyn Andrews wrote into her will that loans made to each of her sons were to be taken into account before dividing her estate equally betwe...

Roseanne Armitage’s company Hum Hospitality Ltd persistently failed to pay rent on time for its lease of 123 Grafton Road in central Aucklan...

Australian-owned business Open2View took its time challenging New Plymouth real estate photographer Deane Riddick’s actions in setting up in...

After another unhappy client bailed out of a proposed class action seeking compensation from Claims Resolution Service for allegedly doing a...

Overseas investment in dairy factories does not amount to investment in ‘farm land’ triggering need for Overseas Investment Office approval,...

Spending $234,700 defrauded from Accident Compensation to impress his new girlfriend did not lessen Cheng-Yin Wu’s culpability for fraud the...

Food Supplier Pacific Dairy walked away from its promise to finance completion of Dairy Solutionz’ yoghurt culturing plant near Hamilton wit...

Failing to complete agreed joint venture capital contributions for a Tauranga residential subdivision meant investor Jinho Kwon did not shar...

Automatically disqualified from acting as a company director after conviction for a $1.7 million customs fraud, Paul Clarke got High Court r...

Behind a claim that nearly $600,000 is due on a $70,000 loan made in 2009 lies the tale of a 1949 Aston Martin DB1 recovered at some painful...

Auckland lawyer Jesse Nguy was ordered to pay $873,600 damages for negligence after failing to seek Overseas Investment Act clearance for a ...

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...