Synlait still comfortable after Supreme Court hearing

Synlait still comfortable after Supreme Court hearing
Rebecca Howard
Synlait Milk chief executive Leon Clement said the company is “really comfortable” in its legal position after a two-day Supreme Court hearing wrapped up on Thursday on land use where its Pokeno factory is located. The milk processor was appealing a May 2019 Court of Appeal decision which ruled covenants that restrict land use on a small tract must stand.  “We inadvertently ended up breaching its covenants there because we settled on land that had covenants that had been removed off it and then an appeal process placed those covenants bac...

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