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Objectivity at risk, Supreme Court tells law firms

The Supreme Court has rapped two of the country’s major law firms over the knuckles for acting for parties in a major gas dispute where their own letters were part of the issue.

In a six-year dispute between Vector Gas and Bay of Plenty Energy over the price of gas under a supply contract, Justices Bill Wilson, Andrew Tipping and Peter Blanchard voiced disapproval of law firms Russell McVeagh and Chapman Tripp.