The real estate agency price-fixing court case – arising from meetings of real estate company chiefs in 2013 after Trade Me Ltd changed how it would charge for their ads – began…
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Pokeno covenants dispute back in court in April
The Supreme Court has set down Synlait Milk Ltd’s appeal over reinstatement of covenants affecting its new infant formula powder factory at Pokeno for a 2-day hearing next April.
Read more →Synlait goes to Supreme Court over Pokeno debacle
Synlait Milk Ltd applied to the Supreme Court on Friday for leave to appeal over the reinstatement of land covenants on its Pokeno land.
Read more →James Hardie parent company fails to move Supreme Court on cladding case jurisdiction
Dublin-registered but historically Australian building materials supplier James Hardie Industries plc has failed in an attempt to limit, to local subsidiaries, a court action over defective cladding taken by 5 Metlifecare retirement village companies & individual unit owners.
Read more →Kauri export opponents get partial win in Supreme Court
The Northland Environmental Protection Society has won one ground of appeal to the Supreme Court on the export of kauri products, but has failed to get a declaration from the court on exports of swamp kauri.
Read more →Top court rejects golfcourse levy on Pauanui Lakes subdivision section owner
Pauanui Lakes homeowner Hartley Vincent has defeated the final attempt, in the Supreme Court, to make him pay levies to the golf club which runs the Coromandel development’s golfcourse.
Read more →Supreme Court rejects individual owners’ case against body corp on leaky repairs
The Supreme Court has rejected an appeal by 5 of the 22 owners of the Bridgewater Bay block of apartments in Paihia who opposed a comprehensive repair that the majority wanted.
Read more →Supreme Court rejects Mangawhai Ecocare case
The Supreme Court has declined the Mangawhai Ratepayers & Residents Association’s application for leave to appeal against the Court of Appeal’s dismissal of its claim against the Kaipara District Council.
Read more →3 appeal points to argue in schools’ leaky claims against Carter Holt
The Supreme Court approved 3 grounds for appeal & cross-appeal today in Carter Holt Harvey Ltd’s defence of leaky building claims against it by the Ministry of Education & a number of schools.
Read more →Insurance Council wins again in court battle over quake-strengthening
The Insurance Council has won again in its third court battle over Christchurch City Council’s attempt to force owners – and thereby their insurers – to strengthen buildings beyond the “earthquake-prone” level, 34% of new building standard.
Read more →Unit owners win Empire access case in Supreme Court
A group of owners of units in the Empire Apartments in Auckland, privately managed as a student hostel, has won a Supreme Court appeal over access to the building at 21 Whitaker Place, 7 years after taking court action.
Read more →Supreme Court denies Pouakani right to Waikato River ownership
The Crown can rest easy in its ownership of the Waikato River, which means power station owner & operator Mighty River Power Ltd can also rest easy.
Read more →After 17-year fight, highest court rules couple did have eligible leaky home claim
The Supreme Court declared yesterday that an Auckland couple’s 17-year-old leaky home claim against Auckland Council was eligible to be heard by the Weathertight Homes Tribunal.
Read more →Supreme Court rejects Pandey bid to continue scrap over running of liquidation
CP Asset Management Ltd (Prakash Pandey) has lost a Supreme Court bid to overturn a Court of Appeal judgment which reinstated the original court-appointed liquidators to another Pandey company.
Read more →Discord on the Supreme Court bench
Published 15 August 2012 The Supreme Court has split 3-2 in a decision dominated by non-production of a collateral settlement agreement. The dispute was between Wiltshire Investments Ltd (Alan Wiltshire), defending the High Court award of summary judgment that was confirmed by the Court of Appeal, and brothers Robert & Greg Symons, protesting the award […]
Read more →Supreme Court rejects appeal by Wenzel-backed “person or persons unknown”
Published 27 August 2010 The Supreme Court has dismissed an appeal by “a person or persons unknown” – backed by jailed Australian business “guru” Shane Wenzel – against stay of execution of an order for vacant possession of a Takanini property. The nation’s top court also questioned how the application made its way through […]
Read more →Supreme Court refuses Wenzel appeal for a jury trial
Published 10 June 2009 The Supreme Court has refused Shane Wenzel’s appeal against a district court decision that his trial on 36 dishonesty charges should be before a judge alone, not a jury. The Supreme Court bench of Judges Peter Blanchard, Andrew Tipping & John McGrath ruled yesterday: “The district court judge’s order involved […]
Read more →Supreme Court decrees $65 million Ashby rort was tax avoidance
Published 9 September 2007The Supreme Court has given the final thumbs down to a tax avoidance scheme devised by twice-bankrupt North Shore property investor Nigel Ashby in the late 1990s. The court of Justices Peter Blanchard, John McGrath & Noel Anderson rejected the claim by Ch’elle Properties (NZ) Ltd against an Appeal Court decision in […]
Read more →Bhanabhai refused leave to argue Nautilus gst case again
Published 29 April 2007 Lawyer Manu Bhanabhai has failed to convince the Appeal Court that he shouldn’t pay gst on the sale of units in the Nautilus apartment on Hobson St 10 years ago, and failed to convince the Supreme Court he should have leave to take the case further. Mr Bhanabhai & the law […]
Read more →Walsh fails to overturn fraud convictions on technicality
Published 24 January 2007 The Supreme Court unanimously dismissed an appeal by Howick conwoman Patricia Walsh against conviction on a technicality relating to her defrauding of 10 people of more than $2 million, which she then lost to Nigerian scamsters. The court released its judgment on 19 December. The appeal related to 34 documents forged […]
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