Dairy company Fonterra has obtained a High Court injunction gagging former director Leonie Guiney and preventing media from using information received from her.
The orders from Justice Clark in the High Court late on Friday restrain published NZX Rural Limited from using, publishing or disseminating confidential information received from Guiney.
The injunction also restrains Guiney "from breaching her duties of confidentiality" to Fonterra.
Other unnamed media, cited as third respondents, are also prevented from using or publishing any confidential information that may have been received from Guiney.
Media, including the New Zealand Herald, were advised of the orders in an email from Fonterra's lawyers Chapman Tripp.