Construction can start on Dunedin's $200 million stadium after a group opposed to the project failed in their legal bid to stop it.
In the High Court at Christchurch today, Justice Lester Chisholm dismissed the application for a judicial review brought by the Stop the Stadium group, the Christchurch Court News website reported.
The group filed the action a week ago to stop Dunedin City Council signing off on the contract, even after it passed a motion to go ahead with the construction at a meeting on Monday.
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