Mike Ross Law Blog
Legal issues: Inside out
11 May 2023
Mortgage: Perpetual Trust v. Bolton
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With Ken Bolton refusing to remove a mortgage blocking transfer to his sibling of their late father’s Tauranga property...
10 May 2023
Wireless Spectrum: Cayman Spectrum v. Spark
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Part of an ongoing spat with Spark, telco entrepreneur Malcolm Dick alleges Spark made false statements intended to def...
Real Estate: James v. Luxury Real Estate
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Ordered to pay a $125,000 commission on sale of their Queenstown property, claims by Ross and Nona James that real estat...
Contract: Progressive Livestock Ltd v. Donaldson
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Failing to clearly show that a livestock contract was signed on behalf of his company meant director Scott Donaldson was personally liable t...
09 May 2023
One Pure: Wang v. Kang
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Jianping Wang, majority shareholder in bottled water exporter One Pure, finds business operations are being hampered by ...
05 May 2023
Bankruptcy: Scott v. BNZ
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More than ten years after his bankruptcy started, self-employed artist Michael Craig Scott, also known as Makoure Scott, remains bankrupt wi...
02 May 2023
Whales: Hart v. Director-General Conservation
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In England, stranded whales become the personal property of King Charles III, though in practice it is the quaintly name...
01 May 2023
Bankruptcy: Westpac v. Chen
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Now working in Dubai as a self-proclaimed forex trading specialist, Jiayuan (Georgia) Chen said she should be excused a $350,000 Westpac deb...
26 April 2023
Leaky Home: MacFarlane v. Sewell
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Mark Sewell was ordered to pay $524,500 damages for negligence after telling a Lower Hutt purchaser that her intended purchase was ‘definite...
24 April 2023
GST: Aggarwal v. DSD Homes
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Dalvir Dhaliwal was ordered to repay fifteen per cent of the purchase price on an Auckland house sale after promising his vendor company was...
Farm Sale: PGG Wrightson v. Routhan
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Ordered to pay $1.6 million for negligence on sale of a West Coast dairy unit, PGG Wrightson Real Estate had damages reduced to $300,000 on ...
21 April 2023
Court Delays: PBL Solutions v. AFT Pharmaceuticals
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PBL Solutions alleges NZX-listed AFT Pharmaceuticals stole a drug they were jointly developing. Delays in issuing a co...
Asset Forfeiture: Commissioner of Police v. Liu
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It read as a long rap sheet: smuggling, illegal gambling and loan sharking; none of which led to a criminal prosecution but instead to a cou...
20 April 2023
Partnership: Moses v. Stark
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With their Waikato farming partnership dissolved automatically on George Stark’s death in 2020, family complain son Keit...
Legal Costs: New World v. Wang
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A rap over the knuckles for New World, ordered to pay the full legal costs of Shaojun Wang who needed court assistance to extract her Auckla...
19 April 2023
Guarantee: Sika (NZ) v. Lawry
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Crossing out references to a guarantee on his company’s credit application with supplier Sika (NZ) Ltd meant company director Gavin Lawry wa...
18 April 2023
Asset Forfeiture: Commissioner of Police v. Marshall
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As the proceeds of crime regime beds in, it is becoming a simple cost/benefit analysis as police and dealers negotiate over the dollar amoun...
17 April 2023
Sham: Maryland Bassett Co. v. Taihe Innovation
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Auckland mortgage funder Taihe Innovation Management Ltd is in receivership with receiver Chris McCullagh left trying to enforce a deal whic...
Squatter: Pascoe v. Ngati Tama Custodian Trustee
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Squatters rights do not exist under New Zealand law, defeating claims by a North Taranaki farmer that his long-term use of neighbouring land...
Asset Forfeiture: Commissioner of Police v. McQuade
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Seized by police as proceeds of crime, Alan McQuade protested that his Holden motor vehicles should not be sold ahead of next year’s schedul...
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