• A small business-owning couple say a $2 million victory over Rich List hotel magnates following a 10-year legal battle has changed their lives.

Brigit and Brian Lawrence operated a Rotorua motel owned by the Pandey family in the mid-2000s, but their business failed when the property was beset with plumbing problems which the Pandeys refused to fix.

Despite a 2011 court order that the Rich Listers pay the Lawrences over $1m in compensation the couple never received a penny.

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ROSS BROWN
Former moteliers Brigit and Brian Lawrence have survived solely on the pension since they were forced to leave the motel in 2008.

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