Mike Ross Law Blog

  Owners of a tenanted south Auckland property failed in their fire insurance claim because of a material non-disclosure when taking out the...

Piqued at losing a USD40 million claim in the Supreme Court by a narrow 3:2 margin, L&M Holdings then claimed Bathurst Resources subsidi...

  With 2.76 hectares of her land in Howard Street Hastings re-zoned residential in 2019, Karen Cooper was entitled to compensation at reside...

Suing his brother alleging he welshed on an agreement not to go into competition, Mathew Colville is in court seeking detail of what he clai...

Internal Affairs scrambled to restore Auckland money remitter Qian DuoDuo Ltd to the Companies Office register after the company quietly dis...

Intended to provide a short breathing space keeping creditors at bay allowing a decision on whether a struggling business is viable, Welling...

Artificial intelligence cannot be an ‘inventor’ registering a patent for a novel product, ruled the High Court in a landmark case.  An inven...

Charitable trusts live forever.  When their charitable purpose has ended, they have to be legally killed and buried; now required for a Whan...

Christopher Swann’s sale of part interest in his Canterbury David Reid Homes franchise sees a dispute with new business partners over paymen...

They thought they were buying houses, but in court it was legal argument about sale of goods when New Plymouth-based Tiny Town Projects Ltd ...

  It is just another Eric Watson fraud, designed to hamper recovery of GBP129 million damages due following an earlier fr...

  ‘Judy bullied me to do it:’ an anguished complaint by a 97 year old widow or words spoken in mischievous jest, the Cour...

  Ordered to pay $240,000 damages, Manaia Media could not claim its defamatory comments about lawyer Kristin Cato were jus...

Struck-off Cambridge lawyer Murray Osmond claimed to act as consultant only to Delta Shared Services Ltd, now in liquidation insolvent.  Rul...

Appeals to tikanga Maori did not override bankruptcy legislation allowing Insolvency Service to seize a Rotorua home, evicting Kathleen and ...

Rules restricting real estate agents from benefitting in a property sale beyond their commission do not apply to subsequent deals done after...

Promoted during 2015 in a blaze of publicity, construction of Island Grace resort on Fiji’s Malolo Island now sees the original investors da...

Twenty years after agreeing to settle out of court a defamation claim alleging he was a credit risk, Hamilton accountant Philip Young filed ...

Described variously as a shack, a shed and a house, the dwelling on Maori freehold land in the North Island West Urewera mountains became th...

Saved from immediate bankruptcy, the High Court approved a part payment scheme put up by Accent on Construction’s Ian Fistonich offering cre...

Bankrupt with creditors owed nearly one million dollars and also charged with fraud offences totalling some $1.7 million dollars Rebecca Ken...

  Receivers Peri Finnigan and Boris van Delden are potentially liable for damages in excess of $150,000 after Dayle Walker forced business c...

Keith Marshall, former CEO of Nelson City Council, sued Tasman District recovering some $270,000 damages for negligent pool inspections of h...

  Taking out a $2.35 million short-term loan in the heat of the covid-19 property boom came unstuck when Auckland development plans collapse...