Mike Ross Law Blog

  With its Christchurch site lease expiring in August 2016, Fletcher Steel and landlord Gama Foundation were poles apart ...

  Facing significant reputational risk for cost overruns on a delayed $56 million HR software makeover for New Zealand Po...

  On her death in 2019, Palmerston North resident Margaret Barnard left an estate valued at $4.4 million with son Graeme ...

  Members of the west Auckland Nobilo wine dynasty are back in court.   Having agreed to bail out brother Steve with a sh...

  A property sharing agreement between relatives morphed into a legal argument whether it was a landlord/tenant relations...

  Rights to share in family trust assets were front and centre in a dispute over housing used communally by a Pasifika fa...

  Tensions between two children and their stepmother coupled with confusion over ownership of estate assets caused the Hi...

  Unsympathetic to claims he had no assets, the High Court bankrupted Ticket Rocket entrepreneur Matt Davey owing BNZ mor...

  As bankrupt creditors of their family trust, any pretence that use of a trust protected their lifestyle block from cred...

  Still fighting for recognition of customary rights over Waikato riverbed underneath the Maraetai and Whakamaru hydroele...

  Bitter that his wife was claiming a half share of relationship property when he had provided the bulk of relationship a...

  Facing possible sale of ancestral land, Pessiman Te Whata attempted to use the Companies Act voluntary administration p...

Expecting that the family home would remain within their family, it was a shock to find descendant Kellee Lowe had borro...

New owners cannot be forced to comply with a Building Act ‘notice to fix’ ignored by a previous owner, the High Court ruled in a test case w...

Auckland-based David Stewart Henderson was banned from managing any company for three years expiring March 2025 after mi...

  Censured by the Law Society for professional misconduct in what was alleged to be sham billing designed to increase vot...

  Alleging that Ross Meurant had emptied their company bank account without authority, trustees of a family trust had a H...

  Falling Auckland house prices saw a buyer ordered to pay $553,300 damages covering loss on resale after he defaulted on...