MÄORI LAND COURT & APPELLATE COURT
Apppointment of new Chief Judge
WAITANGI TRIBUNAL
Appointments of members
Ngäti Awa Raupatu Report
OTHER COURTS AND TRIBUNALS
High Court—issuing coastal permits for marine farms
High Court—registration of vehicle, Treaty argument
High Court—immigration, Treaty argument
High Court—Te Ati Awa settlement negotiations
High Court—Fisheries pre-settlement assets litigation
AUSTRALIA
High Court of Australia—Yanner v Eaton, customary taking rights
Annual index
Māori Law Review Index December 1998 to November 1999
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Māori Appellate Court
Status of land - Māori Land Court able to question Crown's reasoning - Ngati Rarua Iwi Trust v Minister in Charge of Treaty of Waitangi Negotiations and others - Section 38 Wairau West (1999) 4 Te Waipounamu Appellate MB 292
Māori Land Court
Status of land - investigation of customary title - Great Barrier Islands
Other courts and tribunals
Court of Appeal—fisheries assets allocation and “iwi”
High Court—closure of school—Treaty principles applying
Other
Boast, Erueti, McPhail, Smith—Mäori Land Law
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Ngati Rarua Iwi Trust v Minister in Charge of Treaty of Waitangi Negotiations and others - Section 38 Wairau West
Māori Appellate Court (1999) 4 Te Waipounamu Appellate MB 292 (4 APTW 292)
26 October 1999
Successful appeal against a decision of the Māori Land Court changing the status of the land from Crown land to Māori freehold land and vesting it in Te Runanga a Rangitane o Wairau Incorporated. Court should have adjourned to make fuller enquiries as to entitlement. It was appropriate for the Court to question the reasoning of the Crown in identifying the entitled group.
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WAITANGI TRIBUNAL
Memorandum—urgency hearing re Dairy Board restructuring
OTHER COURTS AND TRIBUNALS
High Court—Mäori land and the RMA 1991
High Court—preventing sale of family land
High Court—rating of Mäori land
Environment Court—Mäori marine farming applications
District Court—traffic conviction, blood sample refused as tapu
PARLIAMENT
Resource Management Amendment Bill 1999
OTHER
Law Commission—Coroner review
Annual index
Māori Law Review Index December 1998 to November 1999
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Māori Land Court & Appellate Court
Status of land – land will be more effectively managed and utilised as General land - White – Maketu A2A Lot 4 DPS 63036 (1999) 1 Waiariki Appellate MB 116
Waitangi Tribunal
Appointment of additional members
Other Courts and Tribunals
High Court – Ngāi Tahu claim boundaries
High Court – meaning of "Māori"
Environment Court – use of Māori in the Court
Parliament
Education (Te Aho Matua) Amendment Bill
Māori Purposes Bill 1999
Ngāti Türangitukua Claims Settlement Bill 1999
Hauraki Gulf Marine Park Bill 1998
Forests Amendment Bill 1999
Other
An Unsettled history. Treaty Claims in New Zealand Today
Annual index
Māori Law Review Index December 1998 to November 1999
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White – Maketu A2A Lot 4 DPS 63036
Māori Appellate Court (1999) 1 Waiariki Appellate MB 116 (1 AP 116)
11 May 1999
Successful appeal against decision of the Māori Land Court declining to grant an order changing the status of land from Māori freehold land to General land.
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Mäori Land Court & Appellate Court
Designations and trespass to Mäori land
Other Courts and Tribunals
Court of Appeal – review of Mäori land trust
High Court – heritage protection order, Kaituna river
High Court – export of South Island indigenous timber, exemption for landless Mäori
Other
D Williams - The Land Taking Court
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Māori Law Review Index December 1998 to November 1999
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Letters to the Editor
Mäori Land Court & Appellate Court
Roadline over Mäori Land
Land Court computer imaging project
Waitangi Tribunal
Proposal for a special Tribunal
Other Courts and Tribunals
High Court – restructuring of Mäori studies at Waikato University
High Court – valuation of Crown forest licences
High Court - valuation of Crown forest licences, Mäori participation
High Court – Fisheries, constitutional challenge
Environment Court – coastal works and kaitiakitanga
Parliament
Children, Young Persons, and Their Families Amendment
Budget initiatives
Other
Review of the Mäori Development Act 1962
Mäori women’s experiences of the law
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Waitangi Tribunal
Wänanga Capital Establishment Report
Other Courts and Tribunals
Court of Appeal – public works offer back
High Court – Mäori trust winding up
High Court – customary fisheries defence
High Court – fisheries settlement allocation
High Court – Electricity Corporation split up
Parliament
Ngäi Tahu Claims Settlement (Resource Management Consent Notification)
Regulations 1999 10
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Mäori Land Court & Appellate Court
Application to terminate trust – notice required
Waitangi Tribunal
Radio Frequencies interim report
Whanganui River cross claim
Other Courts and Tribunals
Privy Council – Public Works Act offer back requirements
Environment Court – Mäori protocols
Environment Court – standing for Mäori
Parliament
Security Intelligence Amendment
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Māori Law Review Index December 1998 to November 1999
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Mäori Land Court & Appellate Court
Succession – application of the 1993 Act
Waitangi Tribunal
New members appointed
Other Courts and Tribunals
High Court - hapü representation in settlement negotiations
Other
Turangi Deed of Settlement
Crown policy re rivers, lakes & geothermal claims
Proposed changes to Resource Management Act 1991
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Māori Law Review Index December 1998 to November 1999
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Other courts & tribunals
Court of Appeal - Cannabis & customary rights
Court of Appeal - fiduciary relationship & s18(1)(i)
High Court – attempt to wind up a Mäori society
High Court – fiduciary relationship, public works, & title registration
High Court – sale of Crown interests in Nelson airport
High Court – customary fishing & Poor Knight Islands marine reserve
District Court – South Island customary fishing rights
Parliament
Treaty of Waitangi Amendment Act 1998
Treaty of Waitangi (Final Settlement of Claims) Bill 1998
Customary fishing regulations – North Island
Education Bill – special character of Kura Kaupapa Mäori
Other
Ngäti Awa Heads of Agreement
Sir Graham’s speech re Treaty settlements
Annual index
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