19 Dec 2017
NZME LIMITED v FAIRFAX MEDIA LIMITED [2017] NZHC 3206
- Citation
- [2017] NZHC 3206
- Court
- High Court
The Court dismissed the appeals, upholding the Commission's findings of likely SLCs in specified reader and community newspaper markets, rejecting the likelihood of an advertising-market SLC for Sunday newspapers and the likelihood of a post-merger paywall, and holding the Commission lawfully could and properly did take into account media plurality and reduced quality as material detriments such that authorisation could not be justified because public benefits were insufficient.