Mike Ross Law Blog
Legal issues: Inside out
21 December 2023
CBL: FMA v. CBL Corporation
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Source of funds settling multiple claims against directors of failed CBL Corporation have never been made public, but th...
Property: re Estate Eric Hart
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Family financial arrangements enabling a daughter to buy a home came unstuck with a later dispute over ownership. Cash...
Franchise: Waterworld v. Taupo Wake Park
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The water-borne inflated playground franchised by Kelvin Travers as Waterworld did not excite one High Court judge, indi...
20 December 2023
Bankruptcy: re Fonagy
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Persons must be just before they are generous and debts must be paid before gifts can be made; words spoken by an Englis...
Estate: Waite v. Waite
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Stepson was pitted against stepmother when Graeme Waite found as residuary beneficiary of his late father’s estate that ...
19 December 2023
Family Trust: Noyce v. Prendrell Investments Ltd
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Last ditch efforts to prevent sale of a family trust’s prime asset in Auckland suburb Remuera were overridden by High Co...
18 December 2023
Property: Wu v. Tan
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It was a clash between Chinese custom and legal property rights in a cross-cultural chasm as a relationship property dis...
Property: Kereopa v. Brunsha Ltd
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It was a family transaction designed to keep former Maori land at Raglan within the family Rangimonehu Kereopa claims, h...
Property: NZ Tourist Investments v. Vast Investments
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Auckland property investor Vast Investments Ltd, controlled by Dabin Wang, was held liable for a $800,000 loss on resale...
Property: Xu v. Meng
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Wei Xu and Huimin Guan went to school together in China. Two decades later they were facing off in the New Zealand Hig...
15 December 2023
Property Sale: Harsono v. Fang
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High Court fast-track summary judgment following default on a $3.5 million Auckland property purchase was refused on gro...
Building: Body Corporate 91535 v. 3A Composites GMBH
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German manufacturer 3A Composites GMBH has been forced to face in the New Zealand courts complaints that its aluminium c...
Banking: Co-Operative Bank v. Opai
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The High Court put on hold attempts by Co-Operative Bank to enforce a $375,000 personal loan, first requiring evidence t...
14 December 2023
Teaxas shoot out: Karikaas Natural Dairy v. Arundel Farm Holdings
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The High Court was called to unravel attempts by shareholders to game a ‘Texas shoot out’ clause triggered in a sharehol...
Unit Titles: McIntyre v. Body Corporate 80146
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Having botched a re-allocation of insurance costs between residential apartment owners and then hampered attempts to rem...
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