Mike Ross Law Blog
Legal issues: Inside out
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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