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18 April 2024

Security: Davies v. Zhong

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  Storage costs are adding up, with multiple claimants disputing ownership to barrels of honey under control of Oceania Na...

Subdivision: Lu v. Wila Developments

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  The High Court allowed property developer Kenny Li to cancel contracts and keep $128,000 in deposits received after aggr...
17 April 2024

Asset Forfeiture: Commissioner of Police v. Stevenson

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  Claims that cannabis was cultivated for personal therapeutic use only did not prevent the High Court making a proceeds o...

Breach of Trust: Venkataswamy v. Kodoor

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  With substantial commercial holdings and expertise in the hospitality industry, Murali Kodoor encouraged California-base...
12 April 2024

Liquidation: Grant v. BNZ

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  Left out in the cold after financial restructuring of Rotorua-based wood processor Claymark Group some five years ago, f...

Maori Land: Boon v. Estate of Niki Tuwhangai

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  The default rule for Maori freehold land is that multiple owners hold their ownership interest as tenant in common, with...

Estate: Gibson v. Makgill

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  Aged in her seventies, Lynette Gibson was in the High Court challenging terms of her father’s will nearly fifty years af...
11 April 2024

Eversons: Stewart v. Eversons International

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  A four year battle to recover two million dollars allegedly spirited across the Tasman by Eversons International directo...
09 April 2024

Construction: Lynch v. FCL CL Ltd

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  Increased costs are not a force majeure event justifying a Queenstown developer’s cancellation of pre-sold residential u...

Family Arrangement: McNaughton v. McNaughton

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  After Richard McNaughtons’ parents purchased his Masterton property, he turned around and claimed they held in trust for...

Exports: A-Ward Ltd v. Raw Metal Corp

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  Exporter A-Ward Ltd has been forced into the Australian courts in a customer’s dispute over machinery supplied, despite ...
08 April 2024

Insurers: re CBL Insurance

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  CBL Insurance liquidators have a High Court order that Danish insurer Alpha Insurance A/S repay EUR 25 million received ...

Debt: Binxi Foods NZ Ltd v. Progressive Meats

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  Hastings based Progressive Meats has been dragged unwillingly into customer Binxi NZ’s internal management dispute with ...

Employment: Caisteal An Ime Ltd v. Labour Inspector

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  Owner of Akaroa Village Inn failed in his challenge to a labour inspector’s powers to make unannounced inspections of wa...
03 April 2024

Partnership: Bary v. Bary

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  Twenty years after their acrimonious fallout, Dave Bary was in court claiming unsuccessfully that brother Aron had wrong...
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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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