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New Zealand Tiny Homes (Tiny Homes) fell victim to liquidation on 15 November 2022. After its incorporation in 2020 this was a short, but most certainly not sweet, business affair for its director James Cameron of New Plymouth.
The liquidation of Tiny Homes was said to be linked to the liquidation of Tiny Town Projects Limited (Tiny Town) which was also liquidated on 15 November 2022, another of Mr Cameron’s companies incorporated in 2017.
Tiny Town and Tiny Homes were related companies. Tiny Homes held the intellectual property for the creation of building small properties in New Zealand, whereas Tiny Town was the company that actually attended to the building of these properties
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This judgment has been described as ‘ground-breaking’ and that certainly is the case. This judgment will change the way assets in liquidation are dealt with. The judgment gives rights to the purchasers in a situation where in the normal course of the liquidation it would be common for them to lose their assets.
This decision plays on the fairness of the justice system and emphasises the importance of natural justice in a situation where typically there really are no winners. Although it is arguable this ruling is to the disadvantage of other unsecured creditors in the liquidation, it is weighed on the balance of taking away homes from 6 individuals who in some cases may have been left homeless without this judgment.

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