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New Zealand Case Law

Repayment allocation
  • 2 Aug 2018

    DAI v SETO & LI [2018] NZHC 1962

    Citation
    [2018] NZHC 1962
    Court
    High Court

    Court found defendants' evidence of additional cash payments implausible and rejected it; bank records and pattern of regular New Zealand dollar payments versus irregular yuan-equivalent amounts established allocation: regular round NZ$ deposits credited to the NZ loan and irregular deposits converted to round yuan amounts credited to the Chinese loans; the principal of the first Chinese loan (100,000 yuan) was due 1 February 2010 and is statute-barred, but interest accruing after 30 September 2010 remains claimable; expert accountant's calculations were accepted subject to deduction of statu…