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Fines, court rulings and incidents from Europe, North America and Asia-Pacific: 1,838 cases from 37 jurisdictions, each with an official source and checked against that source before publication. Filter by country, area of law and sector. Click a chart to drill down one level.
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by authority- High Court Auckland (Anklage: Commerce Commission) 1 case 50 % · €273,179
- Waitakere District Court (Anklage: WorkSafe New Zealand) 1 case 50 % · €19,586
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per quarter, by date of decision| Period | Cases | Total |
|---|---|---|
| Q4 2023 | 0 | – |
| Q1 2024 | 0 | – |
| Q2 2024 | 0 | – |
| Q3 2024 | 0 | – |
| Q4 2024 | 1 | €273,179 |
| Q1 2025 | 0 | – |
| Q2 2025 | 0 | – |
| Q3 2025 | 0 | – |
| Q4 2025 | 0 | – |
| Q1 2026 | 0 | – |
| Q2 2026 | 0 | – |
| Q3 2026 | 1 | €19,586 |
| Q4 2026 | 0 | – |
2 cases
20 Aug 2026 Grace Motors Limited (Grace Construction)Grace Construction: 38,500 NZD for working at height despite a prohibition notice €19,586
At a site for two-storey residential units in Kelston (Auckland), workers were working on the upper floor without adequate fall protection, and the site also had temporary platforms, partially removed scaffolding and unsecured ladders; WorkSafe (New Zealand's workplace health and safety regulator) therefore prohibited work at height on the second floor by a prohibition notice on 30 August 2024. Because work continued there on 2 and 4 September 2024 nonetheless, the Waitakere District Court imposed a fine of 38,500 NZD on 20 August 2026, plus costs of 1,099.10 NZD.
A prohibition notice means an immediate stop to the work – site management must actively enforce it until the risk has demonstrably been remedied.
Fall protection and compliance with regulatory stop-work orders
- Authority / court
- Waitakere District Court (Anklage: WorkSafe New Zealand)
- Area of law
- Health and safety and employment law · Workplace safety and accidents
- Legal basis
- Health and Safety at Work Act 2015, s 107(1), (2)(b)
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- unknown
- Sector
- Construction and real estate
- Liability of senior managers
- The prohibition notice had been issued to one of the directors.
- Published
- 4 Sep 2026
Original amount 38,500 NZD, converted at the ECB reference rate of 20 Aug 2026.
- WorkSafe New Zealand: Company falls short after ignoring WorkSafe notice (04.09.2026) Press release of an authority
Checked against the official source on 3 Oct 2026 · Direct link
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18 Dec 2024 MaxBuild LimitedMaxBuild: 500,000 NZD in New Zealand's first criminal cartel case €273,179
The construction company coordinated its bids with a competitor in tenders run by the NZ Transport Agency (national transport authority; Northern Corridor Improvement Project) and Auckland Transport (refurbishment of the Middlemore Bridge). After guilty pleas to four charges of price fixing, the High Court in Auckland imposed a fine of 500,000 NZD on 18 December 2024 in the country's first criminal cartel prosecution; without the mitigating factors, around 1 million NZD would have been appropriate according to the court.
Cover bids in favour of a competitor have been a criminal offence in New Zealand since 2021 – tender teams must never coordinate prices with competitors.
Bid rigging and cover pricing in public tenders
- Authority / court
- High Court Auckland (Anklage: Commerce Commission)
- Area of law
- Competition law · Cartels and collusion
- Legal basis
- Commerce Act 1986, s 30 (Kartellverbot, seit 8. April 2021 strafbewehrt)
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- final
- Sector
- Construction and real estate
- Culpability
- intentional
- Mitigating circumstances
- Guilty pleas; the court took account of several mitigating factors, without which around 1 million NZD would have been appropriate.
- Liability of senior managers
- Measures against individuals are not set out here.
- Published
- 18 Dec 2024
Original amount 500,000 NZD, converted at the ECB reference rate of 18 Dec 2024.
- Commerce Commission: “Cheating the system” – sentencing in country’s first criminal cartel case (18.12.2024) Press release of an authority
- Commerce Commission: Cheating the system: Bid-rigging of roading contracts sees firm fined (23.10.2025) Press release of an authority
Checked against the official source on 3 Oct 2026 · Direct link