Mike Ross Law Blog

Paul Bublitz’ and Bruce McKay’s current disqualifications from acting as company directors were extended to 2026 by the High Court.  Compani...

Nelson business owner Thomas Green had difficulty convincing the Court of Appeal that his company now known as Roofpower Installations Ltd w...

Valuable family vineyards now claimed to be worth some $70 million at Seddon carefully set up in 2009 to avoid any tax liability on subdivis...

With unsecured creditors of Auckland’s failed Ormiston Rise development currently claiming $20.9 million, liquidator Damian Grant questions ...

Vilmos Gaitz arrived in New Zealand as a teenager fleeing the abortive 1956 Hungarian uprising against Russian domination.  On his death in ...

Theo van den Brink walked away from a proposed joint venture with Shanghai-based interests who control Carrington Resort at Northland’s Mata...

  Xieyan Mao sold an Auckland property ripe for redevelopment supposedly free of any tenancy then argued it was the purchaser’s problem to r...

Instructions to be acted on after death entered on a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet were validated as a will by the High Court. The Wills Act p...

Auckland water bottler Pure Dew claims distributors Kyle and Selina Paniora have stolen Pure Dew customers and have been selling their own r...

It was a lawyers’ delight: the original developer of Gulf Harbour subdivision on Auckland’s Whangaparoa Peninsular was wound up at a loss; i...

Having a letter from builder of their high-end Queenstown home to get release of bank funding did not give owners Simon and Judith Davies gr...

Mount Maunganui-based Jorge Arizaga and Coromandel supplier Erion Figueiredo are disputing whether a joint venture exists in their argument ...

In 2019, Parminder Bawa purchased an Oamaru dairy from the wife of Aman Saini.  Aman’s brother Akashdeep Saini paid Bawa $35,000, part of a ...

Convicted in 2017 of customs fraud, Amar Raouf Shakib’s assets including an Auckland property with net equity of some $1.2 million have been...

For Jane Austen devotees, it has the making of a thousand page novel; a moving story of a blended family, inheritances and a multi-million d...

Allegations of fraud and loss of family money lent on mortgage featured in what Justice Duffy called a unique case. Members of the Bolton fa...

Northland construction business Kiwi Sheds Northland Ltd is being wound down under court supervision after directors Robert Gauld and Deane ...

Jason Payne and Laurence van Dam, co-founders of Auckland’s Beer Spot, fell out and Payne is entitled to immediate payment of $171,500 lent ...

Spending money generated by her then partner’s drug dealing resulted in Joanne Lisa Marie Wilson’s conviction for money laundering.  Sentenc...

Paying subcontractors direct at a time when the head contractor was having cashflow difficulties had a cost for Tony Gapes Mico Development ...

Behind the banal puffery of Auckland Council-controlled ATEED promoting its 2017 lease of film studios in west Auckland lay a dispute over f...

Ten years on from Customs seizure of imported furniture, Early Settler was ordered to pay $221,000 after selling product held to be in breac...

Social media is awash with intemperate language, but that alone does not amount to harassment under the Harmful Digital Communications Act. ...

Construction Contracts Act ‘pay now, argue later’ rules are designed to protect contractors’ cash flow.  Arguing first and delaying payment ...

Christchurch investment adviser Hamilton Hindin Greene alleges former director James Small is stringing out legal action over a disputed $2....

If catfishing on dating sites is not sufficiently rewarding, scammers are now catfishing clients of professional service firms.  Auckland la...