Mike Ross Law Blog

Youth travel specialist STA Travel (NZ) Ltd collapsed into liquidation in September 2020 after its Swiss holding company shut up shop in the...

Dynasty Capital could not use a ‘sunset clause’ to back out of its Kaiapoi fixed price house build when it deliberately stopped work attempt...

Ten per cent of the $32 million received by Taranaki iwi Ngaa Rauru Kiitahi in 2003 as its Treaty settlement was lost in a fraud perpetrated...

In 2020, Jihong Lu died in Taiwan. In Auckland he had a reputation for throwing money around like confetti; staging a dismally unsuccessful ...

A 500,000 dirhams deferred bride price agreed as part of an Islamic wedding in UAE was enforced in the New Zealand courts as a contractual p...

Over four million dollars in cash was uncovered including $3.2 million stuffed into rubbish sacks at a storage unit during an Auckland Custo...

Claiming $548,000 was still owed after a mortgagee sale, Merchant Finance was instead forced to pay Cheryl Xu and Karl Litt $145,800 followi...

High-powered cars supposedly subject to proceeds of crime restraining orders are proving elusive as police attempt to track down what are al...

Corporate Cabs throwing  the book at a former driver as a warning shot for other drivers was of limited success when the High Court ruled th...

Smuggling cigarettes from China through their Auckland company Enternal Trading Ltd resulted in proceeds of crime orders totalling $900,000 ...

Described as holding other beneficiaries to ransom, Gregory Mulholland was removed as administrator of his late mother’s estate and ordered ...

Black Diamond Technologies allege vendor of a property in Lower Hutt deliberately went bush to prevent completion of due diligence causing i...

An Auckland light industrial unit converted without resource consent into residential accommodation for immigrant workers and WINZ beneficia...

As project manager for multiple Tauranga housebuilds, Danny John Cancian was liable to ensure work complied with building consents.  He was ...

Bankrupted more than eight years ago and sentenced to two years three months imprisonment during that time for Insolvency Act offences, form...

Investors allege Pandey-controlled CP Group running the Sofitel Auckland Viaduct Harbour Hotel put on the squeeze; blocking disgruntled abse...

Talley’s claim MacLab is not properly paying royalties for supply of mussels resulted in a counterclaim by MacLab for $3.4 million alleging ...

Family confusion over financial assistance to support their mother came to a head when Robin van der Byl needed a High Court order to force ...

Fiddling the books to avoid payment of $391,000 GST came at a cost; liquidator of Wellington-based Matrix Homes clawed back $2.1 million as ...

Wei Hu alleges he was defrauded by foreign currency dealer Chunglin Yu.  He now has a further problem; she is detained in prison in China. T...

Low interest rates are starting to bite in the life assurance sector.  Lifetime Income Ltd paid out annuity holders leaving them to fend for...

Selling parts for cars is a different market segment to a dealership selling cars, the Court of Appeal observed when ruling Tim Gordon was n...

Christine and Te Rahui Cowan’s attempts to stop their father selling the Wellington family home to a property developer have foundered while...

Alex van Heeren has spent in excess of $11 million dollars on legal fees in twenty five years of litigation in which he was found to have de...

Greymouth Holdings’ director Robert Dunphy claims there was no mistake when his company agreed to buy an Auckland property for $5.9 million ...

Ordered to repay $67,500 received as a ‘wasted costs’ order claiming to be out of pocket following a trial delay, the High Court was told la...

Maria Young forced liquidation of their Queenstown joint venture property company after suspicions colleagues Geoffrey Short and Katrina War...

Trustees of a Taupo ahu whenua trust put loyalty to a friend ahead of their duties as a trustee, the Court of Appeal said, confirming remova...

High Court approval was needed to amend terms of two Taranaki family trusts to avoid a potential $320,000 tax liability and to protect asset...