Māori Appellate Court - Te Kōti Pīra Māori
2013 Māori Appellate Court judgments - index
Māori Land Court - Te Kōti Whenua Māori
2013 Māori Land Court judgments - index
Practice Note - November 2013 - citation of Māori Land Court and Māori Appellate Court decisions
Chief Judge's powers – succession to Tītī Islands confined to blood descendants – Coote - Titi Islands [2013] Chief Judge's MB 1018
Vesting land in hapū - Manuirirangi v Parininihi ki Waitotara Incorporation - Waiokura Te Kauae blocks (2013) 311 Aotea MB 104
Status of land - no change to General land simply so land can be sold - Manunui v Church - Lot 37-49 DP 34051 (2013) 313 Aotea MB 260
Trusts - appointment of trustees – no appointment where relationship may cause bias – Brown v Brownlie - Pipituangi A Ahu Whenua Trust (2013) 36 Tairāwhiti MB 78
Trusts - interim decision - trustee entitled to remain until replacements appointed - Puriri – Okaihau No3C No2 (2013) 28 Takitimu MB 129
Legislation
Treaty settlement legislation before the House of Representatives in 2013
Book review
Māmari Stephens reviews Lords of the Land – indigenous property rights and jurisprudence of empire
Professor David V Williams reviews The Native Land Court: A Historical Study, Cases and Commentary, 1862-1887
Māori Law Review news
Editorial - Remarks at the celebration of the Māori Law Review’s 20 year anniversary - Māmari Stephens
Print version
Download the Māori Law Review December 2013 (589 KB PDF).
This table lists the 2013 judgments of the Māori Appellate Court and contains links to reports about the decisions.
For other years: 2010, 2011, 2012, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023. For the 2013 Māori Land Court judgments index.
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This table lists the 2013 judgments of the Māori Land Court and contains links to reports about the decisions.
For other years: 2010, 2011, 2012, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023. For the 2013 Māori Appellate Court judgments index. read more
The Māori Land Court bench has issued a new Practice Note about the citation of Māori Land Court and Māori Appellate Court decisions.
Download the 2013 Practice Note regarding the Citation of Māori Land Court and Māori Appellate Court decisions here (276 KB PDF). read more
Coote - Titi Islands
Māori Land Court [2013] Chief Judge's MB 1018 (2013 CJ 1018)
6 December 2013
Orders vesting interests in Tītī islands in legally adopted children cancelled. Succession to the islands is determined not by the general law of intestacy but in accordance with Māori custom. Rakiura custom holds that only those related by blood may succeed.
Download Coote - Titi Islands here (242 KB PDF). read more
Manuirirangi v Parininihi ki Waitotara Incorporation - Waiokura Te Kauae blocks
Māori Land Court (2013) 311 Aotea MB 104 (311 AOT 104)
29 November 2013
Application dismissed to compel respondent Incorporation to alienate land so it could be vested in hapū title.
Download Manuirirangi v Parininihi ki Waitotara Incorporation - Waiokura Te Kauae blocks (2013) 311 Aotea MB 104 (311 AOT 104) here (88 KB PDF). read more
Manunui v Church - Lot 37-49 DP 34051
Māori Land Court (2013) 313 Aotea MB 260
20 December 2013
The Māori Land Court dismissed an application for the status of land to be changed from Māori freehold land to General land on the basis that it would be inconsistent with the principles of Te Ture Whenua Māori Act 1993 to change the status so that the land could be sold.
Download Manunui v Church - Lot 37-49 DP 34051 (2013) 313 Aotea MB 260(138 KB PDF) here. read more
Brown v Brownlie - Pipituangi A Ahu Whenua Trust
Māori Land Court (2013) 36 Tairāwhiti MB 78 (36 TRW 78)
23 December 2013
Application to appoint two people as additional trustees dismissed. The nominees would not be able to administer the trust in an unbiased and non-partisan manner due to their family relationships with the incumbent trustees.
Download Brown v Brownlie - Pipituangi A Ahu Whenua Trust here (84 KB PDF). read more
Puriri – Okaihau No3C No2
Māori Land Court (2013) 28 Takitimu MB 129 (28 TKT 129)
20 December 2013
Interim decision following an application for directions from the Court. Sole responsible trustee entitled to remain until the appointment of replacement trustees or until further order of the Court.
Download Puriri – Okaihau No3C No2 (169 KB PDF) here. read more
This year has again seen a considerable amount of activity relating to Treaty settlements and a significant amount of settlement legislation has been before the House of Representatives. Only two pieces of legislation were enacted this year, but eight settlement bills were introduced, and a number of those bills are major pieces of legislation. read more
Overview
Lords of the Land – indigenous property rights and the jurisprudence of empire
Mark Hickford
Oxford University Press 2011 (523 pages, ISBN: 9780199568659, eISBN: 9780191731273)
Reviewed by Māmari Stephens, senior lecturer, Faculty of Law, Victoria University of Wellington. read more
Overview
The Native Land Court: A Historical Study, Cases and Commentary, 1862-1887
Richard Boast
Thomson Reuters, Wellington, 2013 (xiii + 1407 pages, ISBN 978-0-86472-765-7).
Reviewed by Professor David V Williams, Faculty of Law, University of Auckland read more
Māmari Stephens, senior lecturer in law at Victoria University of Wellington and consultant editor to the Māori Law Review, spoke at the function held on 28 November 2013 to celebrate 20 years of publication for the Māori Law Review. read more
