Judge keeps Stuff info secret - and her reasons why

Judge keeps Stuff info secret - and her reasons why
Victoria Young
Information relating to the dispute between Australia's Nine Entertainment and local media group NZME will stay under wraps until December, following a court ruling. The companies ended up at loggerheads over whether the Kiwi firm could force the larger Australian group to stick to exclusive negotiations over the future of Stuff. In May, Justice Sarah Katz ruled she couldn't hold Nine to the talks, which were the latest in multiple attempts to merge New Zealand's two-biggest newspaper publishers.  Following the ruling, Stuff chief executi...

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