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08 October 2025

Unit Title: Body Corporate 49407 v. Donovan

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  Amended Unit Title powers enabled a Tauranga body corporate to assume ownership of an apartment, forcing a sale after th...
03 October 2025

Mutton Bird: re Succession to Phyliss Harmon

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  Ten years on from Polly Harmon’s death, disputes over inheritance rights saw the Maori Land Court rule Polly validly ski...

Corporate Opportunity: Drycarbon GP One Ltd v. Leckie

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  Investment bankers Will Leckie and Chris Morrison were ordered to pay $12.1 million buying out Drylandcarbon joint ventu...
02 October 2025

Property: Schmidt v. Garrity

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  In jail and under financial pressure with properties at Mangatawhiri and Mangatangi south of Auckland at risk of mortgag...

Cryptopia: Sharma v. Cryptopia Ltd

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  Claiming to have lost Bitcoin currently worth $108 million in the 2019 heist which saw Christchurch-based Cryptopia hack...
01 October 2025

Charitable Trust: re Estate Thomas Burke

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  It was a touching gesture for Thomas Burke to provide for his sister and another friend, but leaving the residue of his ...
30 September 2025

Liquidation: Kiwicare Services v. Arachchilage

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  Kapila Arachchilage filed for bankruptcy just prior to a court hearing holding him liable to pay $1.03 million wrongly t...

Liquidation: Cato Bolam v. Mansion Rear Ltd

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  In a bind, with Auckland property developer June Xu stalling on payment, civil engineers Cato Bolam found they could not...
26 September 2025

Investment: Liu v. Wei

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  A $1.4 million debt is not yet due says property developer Chenyang Wei; written loan terms are a façade, drawn up for t...
15 September 2025

Seasonal Workers: Soapi v. Pick Hawke's Bay

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  Seasonal labour contracts for Pacific Islanders brought in for Hawke’s Bay horticulture and viticulture amounted to inde...

Tax Relief: Inland Revenue v. KD Transport Ltd

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  Narinder Singh Dhaliwal’s request for time to pay overdue tax debts exceeding one million dollars owed by his transport ...

Family Trust: Lassnig v. Zhou

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  Family trust assets are not sacrosanct when a relationship ends.   The Supreme Court set out guidelines: for a marriage ...
12 September 2025

Settlelement: Lepionka & Co Investments v. Gibson Sheat

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  Litigation costs were the killer in Stefan Lepionka’s foray into a Hawkes Bay lifestyle subdivision.   Attempts to recov...
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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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