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The High Court will hear a bid for a judicial review into the decision to allow Chinese investors to buy the Crafar farms.
A consortium of investors, led by Sir Michael Fay, is taking legal action over the decision by Ministers Maurice Williamson and Jonathan Coleman to approve the Pengxin Group's bid to buy the farms.
The hearing, set for Friday at the High Court in Wellington, comes as the Government claims they were forced to approve the farm sale to Chinese interests because of a free trade deal struck by Labour.
Labour's finance spokesman David Parker says both the Prime Minister and Land Information Minister have made the claim but the relevant clause in the free trade deal doesn't change New Zealand's ability to turn down applications for land purchases.
