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10 December 2025

Comparative Advertising: Zuru v. Lego

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   When Zuru’s negotiations with Lego came to naught over description on packaging for its ‘Max Build’ toy bricks as being Le...
09 December 2025

Arbitration: Garcha Brothers v. St Heliers 88 Ltd

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   Legal manoeuvring by investors Nicole and Victor Armani was described by the High Court as ‘smacking of tactical conduct’ ...

Limitation Period: Heartland Bank v. Campbell

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   The High Court allowed Heartland Bank to chase down part of a $910,000 debt otherwise statute-barred as being more than si...
08 December 2025

Restraint of Trade: Raine & Horne v. Bratschi

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   Rebranding Mike Pero real estate franchises as Raine & Horne still leaves real estate staff bound by earlier Mike Pero...

Maori Land: Malcolm v. Te Hana Trust

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   A 26 year delay in registering with Land Information a status change for Maori land led to protracted legal argument over ...

Cartel: Commerce Commission v. Sweetspot

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   Naively assuming that a proposed market share arrangement was industry practice, and comforted that a competition lawyer h...
05 December 2025

Lawyer: Stebbing v. Stebbing

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   Law firm Farry Law was disqualified from acting in fiercely fought litigation between two branches of the Stebbing family ...

Insurance: FMA v. Tower

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   For the second time, Tower Insurance has overcharged customers entitled to multi-policy discounts.   The first, saw Tower ...

Asset Forfeiture: Commissioner of Police v. Jacobson

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   With an extensive marketing campaign for his business and an impressively diversified investment portfolio, Sharma Saili J...

Structured Finance: Nirvana Farm v. FR Waipuna

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   It was a structured finance deal akin to a mortgage Nirvana Farm claimed, trying to revive its lapsed option to repurchase...

Mutual Wills: re Estate of Brian Monk

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   Despite increasing numbers of blended families, the High Court refused to budge from a long-standing rule that assets disp...
04 December 2025

Asset Forfeiture: Commissioner of Police v. Morrison

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   Police continue to be commercially flexible when negotiating Criminal Proceeds (Recovery) Act asset confiscations.   Convi...

Mortgagee Sale: Loan Investment Trustees v. Burrell & Porter

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   Owners of a distinctive Wellington ‘arts and crafts’ style property were still both liable for a one million dollar shortf...
03 December 2025

Fraud: Thompson-Bell v. R.

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   Promoted to finance administrator on her mother’s recommendation, Ariana Thompson-Bell stole nearly half a million dollars...

Treaty Settlement: Smith v. Te Ara Tipuna

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   Lady Smith did not get High Court support for a representative class action seeking to hive off $50 million dollars from N...
28 November 2025

Insurance: IAG v. Aubrey

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   The score sits at a one-all draw.   IAG Insurance said there is no insurance cover.   The Insurance Ombudsman said the Aub...
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Mike Ross
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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