Mike Ross Law Blog

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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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Mike Ross
Mike Ross spent nearly thirty years teaching all aspects of commercial law to business students and almost as many years writing variously for The New Zealand Herald, The National Business Review and The Chartered Accountants' Journal. He authored two books on legal principles governing business reconstructions. Mike Ross holds degrees in both law and economics from the University of Auckland.
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