The Whanau Ora Community Clinic is delighted that
Te Pou Matakana (Whanua Ora Commissioning Agency) has
dropped the injunction application filed against us, and
paid our costs.
The Community
Clinic’s Director, George Ngatai, said “We have always
thought it was misconceived to seek an injunction preventing
us from using Whanau Ora in our name in connection with our
work in the healthcare and wellbeing
sector.”
“Our lawyers were well
prepared to defend us against the injunction on 5-6 December
in the Wellington High Court, but now we don’t have
to.
Te Pou Matakana’s legal
submissions were due last Friday but instead, they withdrew
their injunction application and offered to pay us some of
the costs their injunction application put us
to.
That has now been agreed and
paid. The substantive proceeding remains on foot but without
urgency, we do not know when this will be heard by the
Court”
“No one organisation or
even an individual can own a kaupapa like Whānau Ora and we
are pleased with Te Pou Matakana (The Whānau Ora
Commissioning Agency) dropping the injunction application”
George Ngatai said.
“The Whanau Ora
Community clinic will continue to focus on serving our
patients and clients, many of whom are vulnerable and hard
to reach, as well as serving our more than 1200 active COVID
patients.”
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