Amusingly, when my (now retired) colleague, Tim Hazeldine, wrote at article about the Foodstuffs - Countdown duopoly, Auckland University got threatened with defamation. The letter from Chapman Tripp somehow found its way onto the government's own Commerce Commission Website - you can read it at the end of this link:
It says, "Foodstuffs, therefore, requests that the University amends the Article to remove these defamatory statements .. Yours sincerely, Justin Graham, Partner". Here's his bio:
It says "Justin lectures at the University of Auckland, at both undergraduate & postgraduate level, in corporate transactions, iwi governance & intellectual property law". Maybe you can get your head around how one can work for an outfit, like Auckland University during a part of the day, in the Law Department no less, then go walkies to your office a few hundred yards away & represent clients telling that same University to take down "defamatory statements". The University sent the letter to its own solicitors, bowed down, and dropped the article. We can't write more, for fear of rocking the boat, upsetting the apple cart, breaking the status quo, and riling NZ Big Business Incorporated.
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