Meat works fight continues

Disputing parties confront each other in the Court of Appeal today as the legal fight over a $22 million Waitara meat works development continues.

Christchurch-based Anzco Foods is appealing against a High Court ruling that has halted the former Waitara freezing works site from being used for the manufacture and export of a range of meat products for the Japanese market.

The ruling follows legal action by the works' former owner, Affco New Zealand, which says the development is in breach of a 20-year encumbrance stopping the site being used for the slaughter, processing, cooling or freezing of lamb, sheep, calves, cattle or goats.