Mike Ross Law Blog

The boys from Sydney sneaked into New Zealand under cover of darkness, incurring a $1.54 million Commerce Act fine, planning to seize contro...

The High Court refused Rajesh Sami leave to appeal his 2017 conviction for tax fraud; his last ditch effort to avoid deportation to Fiji. Sa...

Owners of twenty-one leasehold apartments on Auckland’s Remuera Road have had their leases cancelled following a rent strike when annual ren...

Facing allegations of fraud from Wellington lawyer and entrepreneur Mike Garnham and his Garnham group of companies, ANZ Bank spent some $25...

Auckland commercial landlord Neil Christian thought he was dealing with just one pesky leaseholder running a hopeless legal argument about l...

Whilst living back in China, Jie Cao left fellow shareholder Yi Wang in sole charge of their Auckland health food store.  Ms Wang was ordere...

Creditors can be told details of a $3.5 million confidential settlement between liquidator of Stonewood Homes and directors James Boult and ...

It seemed like a good idea at the time; have an acquaintance hold deposits as a stakeholder for later onward payment to a builder.  Now both...

Sued for more than one million dollars in a dispute over lease of commercial space intended for use as a childcare facility, tenant Kid Coun...

It was a game of high stakes poker. Interests associated with Annie Shui and her much litigated attempts to develop a residential subdivisio...

German manufacturer of aluminium cladding alleged to be high fire risk fended off litigation funders saying there was no ‘commonality of int...

Confirming Sione Na’aniumotu Pome’e 27 months’ imprisonment for a $1.8 million tax fraud, the High Court said this sentence was generous giv...

Litia Rokele Vuniduvu’s conviction for fraud after stealing over $360,000 from Ports of Auckland in a false invoicing scam was upheld by the...

Judges frequently chide litigants for failure to follow the rules.  You might expect the High Court to be a paragon of virtue when it comes ...

Described by Judge Lester as an attempted ‘gotcha’ moment in highly charged pre-trial challenges to document discovery, Arrowtown hoteliers ...

Chris Arbuckle’s Crown Finance Ltd was ordered to compensate Matvin Group after unilaterally taking over a joint property development at Auc...

It came as a surprise to Steven Dallinger when accountants holding a High Court order told him they were now in charge of Murupara farming d...

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...