7 Mar 2014
DANONE ASIA PACIFIC HOLDINGS PTE LTD v FONTERRA CO-OPERATIVE GROUP LTD [2014] NZHC 393
- Citation
- [2014] NZHC 393
- Court
- High Court
Weighing the r 3.16 factors the Court refused media access to the court file pending determination of the defendant's application for a stay because the risk of defeating the confidentiality of the arbitration process and the contractual right to private resolution outweighed the media's public interest claim at this preliminary pleading stage; open justice is less significant where jurisdiction to hear the dispute is contested and no defences have been filed.