New Zealand SLAPPs

This page adds to a list of Australian SLAPP suits and threatened law suits. It contains the references to SLAPPs in New Zealand. The full details of the list and the definitions used is at SLAPP's in Australia.

Cases

• Kop-Coat New Zealand Limited v Robin Wakeling, High Court, Rotorua Registry, CIV 2006-463-394

One of two cases where a timber preservation product company suing a scientist over reports and media comment on NZ building standards and the effectiveness of the company’s product.

• Osmose NZ v Robin Wakeling and Nicholas Smith, MP, High Court, Aukland Registry, CIV 2005-404-7195

One of two cases where a timber preservation product company sued over comment on NZ building standards and the effectiveness of the company’s product. The suit is over media comment by a leading scientist and by the Opposition spokesperson on the building industry.

Other SourceWatch resources

• SLAPP's
• SLAPP's in Australia

External Sources

• "Kop-Coat moves to restore confidence in Boron treatment," Friday Offcuts, 14 July 2006.
• Nick Smith, MP "$15 million writ an attack on free speech" Media Release from National Party Building Spokesperson (and defendant), 23 December 2005.
• Greg Ogle, The Bush Lawyer's Guide to Using Legal Threats as Wallpaper
• "Public Interest Lawyers' Statement in Support of Public Participation Law Reform" (pdf, 20KB)