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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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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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