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Bank of New Zealand and other secured creditors in two collapsed forestry companies can't reclaim $127.5m that was paid to Inland Revenue by a partnership owned by the companies, the Supreme Court has ruled.
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A High Court judge has imposed a rare "justice tax" on a decision involving struck-off lawyer Barry Hart’s bank battles.To get a copy of his reserved judgment in a case involving Mr Hart and ANZ Bank, Associate
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Disgraced former Waipawa accountant Warren Pickett is being released from prison today after a minimum non-parole period of three years and four months, for two decades of deceit in which he robbed more than 200 friends and other trusting clients of up to $20 million.
Sentenced in 2009 to five years, to serve a minimum of two thirds, the
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An Australian consumer rights activist claims New Zealand banks used predatory lending practices to profit from widespread mortgage fraud.
Denise Brailey has sparked calls for a royal commission into the Australian banking sector on the same issue, and hopes to head to New Zealand this year to continue her crusade. Addressing the Australian
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Fraudulent Wellington accountants Barrie James Skinner and David Ingram Rowley have today been bankrupted. The pair were found guilty earlier this month on more than 100 charges of fraud,
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Eight New Zealand lawyers, including a prominent University of Auckland professor, have been appointed Queen's Counsel under a new process that includes
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A man who feigned illness to escape police custody before leaping over a fence with the help of a dog kennel and sparking a manhunt has been jailed. It
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Eight New Zealand lawyers, including a prominent University of Auckland professor, have been appointed Queen's Counsel under a new process that includes
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