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
Pūnaha whakawā - criminal justice
Getting the most out of section 27 of the Sentencing Act 2002 - Oliver Fredrickson
Mōtika tangata - human rights
Prisoner voting rights - Electoral (Registration of Sentenced Prisoners) Amendment Act 2020 - Charlie Cox
Te pūnaha ture kākano rua - bilingual legal system
He Kākano Rua te Pūnaha Ture? - Alana Thomas
Te Kōti Pīra – Court of Appeal
Chief Judge's powers - order varying trust annulled - upheld on further appeal - Inia v Julian [2020] NZCA 423 - 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 - Natural resource management
Notification of resource consent applications - breach of Te Tiriti - Reto Blattner de-Vries
Student editor 2021
Applications have now closed for our student editor position for 2021.
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.
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Download the Māori Law Review November 2020 (571 KB PDF)
Charlie Cox discusses the Electoral (Registration of Sentenced Prisoners) Amendment Act 2020, the most recent legislation modifying the ability of sentenced prisoners to exercise their right to vote.
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Inia v Julian
Court of Appeal [2020] NZCA 423
17 September 2020
Unsuccessful appeal from the Māori Appellate Court. The trustees of the Inia Whānau Trust had successfully appealed from the Māori Land Court to the Māori Appellate Court where orders from the Māori Land Court varying the terms of the Trust were cancelled. The Appellate Court's approach was upheld.
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Oliver Fredrickson discusses the range of steps that can be taken under section 27 of the Sentencing Act 2002 to ensure that sentencing decisions take account appropriately of the circumstances of the offender.
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I te tau 1987, i whakaturehia te reo Māori hei reo mana mō Aotearoa e te Ture mō te reo Māori me te ahei o ētahi tāngata ki te kōrero i te reo Māori i ngā kōkiritanga o te ture. Taka rawa mai ki te tau 2016, ka whakakorengia taua ture, kātahi ka whakakapingia tana tūranga e te Ture mō Te Reo Māori hou. Ko ngā hua o tēnei ture nei, ka pūmau tōnu te reo Māori ki tōna taumata hei reo mana mō Aotearoa, āpiti atu, i whakaūngia te reo Māori hei taonga mō te iwi Māori, he reo e kaingākautia ana e te motu whānui, ko te reo taketake ake o Aotearoa, ka mutu, he reo whakahirahira te reo Māori i te ahurea whānui o te motu. Toru tekau mā toru ngā tau ināianei mai i te whakaturetanga o te reo Māori hei reo mana o Aotearoa me te ahei ki te kōrero i te reo Māori i ngā Kōti, e uia tonu ana te pātai nui, āe rānei, nā ēnei whakaturetanga tō tātou reo Māori i whakaora i te pūnaha ture o Aotearoa?
E aro atu ana tēnei ātikara ki ngā whakaūnga a te Kāwanatanga e rārangihia ana i te Ture mō te reo Māori me te whakaaro mēnā e ngākau pono ana te Kāwanatanga ki aua whakaūnga me ā rātou here, ā rātou kawenga anō hoki i roto i Te Tiriti o Waitangi, me kōkiri tika atu te pūnaha ture o Aotearoa hei pūnaha ture kākano rua. read more
Notification of resource consent applications - decision-making in breach of Te Tiriti o Waitangi
Reto Blattner de-Vries
Reto Blattner de-Vries discusses discretionary decision-making around notification provisions under the Resource Management Act 1991 in contexts where a taonga resource of historical and cultural importance to tangata whenua is identified. read more
