Whiringa-ā-nuku 2020 October – Contents
Indigenous peoples and COVID-19 – online seminars
Māmari Stephens chairs a panel discussion with presentations by Professor Margaret Mutu, Julia Whaipooti, and health academic Dr Rhys Jones. They discuss Māori experience of law and justice in Aotearoa New Zealand through the COVID-19 pandemic to date
Dr Carwyn Jones chairs a discussion with presentations by Courtney Skye, John Borrows, Jess Housty, and Jeff Corntassel on Indigenous peoples and COVID-19: issues of law and justice in Canada
Dr Claire Charters chairs a discussion with presentations by Aliza Organick, Kelsey Leonard, and Miriam Jorgensen on Indigenous peoples and COVID-19: issues of law and justice in the U.S.A.
Dr Fleur Te Aho chairs a discussion with presentations by Alison Whittaker and Larissa Behrendt on Indigenous peoples and COVID-19: issues of law and justice in Australia
Legal education in Aotearoa New Zealand
Educating for a bijural Aotearoa New Zealand legal system - the aspirations of Māori academics - Professor Jacinta Ruru
Te Kōti Mana Nui - Supreme Court
Pūnaha whakawā - criminal justice - jury racial bias - right to be free from discrimination - leave to appeal refused - Borell v R [2020] NZSC 101 - Craig Linkhorn
Te Kōti Matua - High Court
Raupatu - declarations of unlawfulness and breach of fiduciary duties refused - Te Ara Rangatū O Te Iwi O Ngāti Te Ata Waiohua Incorporated v The Attorney-General [2020] NZHC 1882 - Craig Linkhorn; comment on Te Ara Rangatū O Te Iwi O Ngāti Te Ata Waiohua Incorporated - David V Williams
Injunction - enforcement - contempt - Booth v Tito [2020] NZHC 1071 - Zoe Rose-Curnow
Te Kōti Pīra Māori – Māori Appellate Court
2020 Māori Appellate Court judgments - index
Te Kōti Whenua Māori – Māori Land Court
2020 Māori Land Court judgments - index
Te Rōpū Whakamana i Te Tiriti o Waitangi – Waitangi Tribunal
Waitangi Tribunal procedure - decision on urgent inquiry adjourned - Whakatōhea - Wai 2961, #2.5.4 - Zoe Rose-Curnow
Ngā Whakahaere Rauemi - Resource Management
Māori interests in natural resource management - 2019 and (much of) 2020 in review - Dave Randal with Chelsea Easter, Alanna Garland Duignan and Frances Wedde
Student editor 2021
Applications are now open for our student editor position for 2021. See the details here. (Applications close on Friday 6 November 2020.)
Sir Edward Taihakurei Durie student essay competition 2020
Our judges have decided. Elliot Harris is the winner of the 2020 student essay competition. His essay, on the Ellis case and tikanga Māori in the common law will be published in the February 2021 issue of the Review.
Print version
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