High Court lets Carter Holt drag councils into leaky schools lawsuit

High Court lets Carter Holt drag councils into leaky schools lawsuit
Paul McBeth
By Paul McBeth March 20 (BusinessDesk) - Carter Holt Harvey won its bid to drag local authorities into its protracted leaky schools court case with the Ministry of Education, although the judge excluded buildings captured by a time-bar, and gave the building products maker a hurry-up to lodge more detailed claims. In the High Court in Auckland, Justice Sally Fitzgerald rejected an application by 54 councils to strike out Carter Holt's bid to add them as a third party to the broader leaky school claim while filing separate proceedings to s...