BB Ltd OD Ltd v ED Ltd [2019] NZDT 1532 (18 December 2019) [pdf, 93 KB]
...priority over a security interest relating to same goods. 9. However, I am not persuaded that ED has a lien over the vehicle. There is no worker’s lien for mere storage of goods: a worker’s lien only applies where someone has improved goods by performing work on those goods, not where goods have only been maintained. 10. ED claimed that there was a contractual lien based on verbal agreement. However, the applicants’ representative UN denied any such agreement. ED produced an emai...