Māori Law Review

Te Kōti Matua – High Court

Insolvency - relevance of tikanga - Bamber v Official Assignee [2023] NZHC 260 - Elizabeth Derby

Te Kōti Pīra Māori – Māori Appellate Court

Trusts - trustee removal - payments - Henderson v Brooking - Wharekahika A47 [2023] Māori Appellate Court MB 17 (2023 APPEAL 17) - Elizabeth Derby

Costs - unsuccessful appeal - Special Aid recipient - Tawa v Tuaropaki E Trust [2023] Māori Appellate Court MB 1 (2023 APPEAL 1) - Elizabeth Derby

2023 Māori Appellate Court judgments - index

2022 Māori Appellate Court judgments - index

Te Kōti Whenua Māori – Māori Land Court

Chief Judge's powers - partition amendment cancelled - Williams - Hohotaka 2A Section 4 and other blocks (2023) Chief Judge's MB 2 (2023 CJ 2) - Elizabeth Derby

Chief Judge's powers - succession - birth certificate - Smith v Bristowe - Succession to Eruera Pereto (2023) Chief Judge's MB 39 (2023 CJ 39) - Elizabeth Derby

Partition - effective use of land - Hinaki - Whāngārā A5 (2023) 116 Tairāwhiti MB 143 (116 TRW 143) - Elizabeth Derby

Trusts - appointment of trustees - Wray v Heath - Ongaonga No 1G Sec 2 (2023) 247 Waikato Maniapoto MB 250 (247 WMN 250) - Elizabeth Derby

2023 Māori Land Court judgments - index

2022 Māori Land Court judgments - index

Te Rōpū Whakamana i Te Tiriti o Waitangi – Waitangi Tribunal

Tino Rangatiratanga me te Kāwanatanga - Te Paparahi o Te Raki Inquiry - Elizabeth Derby

Waikanae: Report on Te Ātiawa/Ngāti Awa claims - Elizabeth Derby

Arotakena pukapuka - Book review

The Constitution of New Zealand: A Contextual Analysis - Mihiata Pirini

Sir Edward Taihakurei Durie student essay competition 2022

Te Ture o Takutai Moana kei muri i te kēhi o Re Edwards: examining approaches to overlapping claims for customary marine title - William Morrison

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Bamber v Official Assignee

High Court [2023] NZHC 260

21 February 2023

Unsuccessful appeal from a District Court decision vesting the appellants' property in the Official Assignee under insolvency legislation. Grounds advanced on appeal included that the vesting was contrary to tikanga.

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Attorney General v Waitangi Tribunal 

High Court [2023] NZHC 132

17 February 2023

Application by the Crown for judicial review of Waitangi Tribunal recommendations for the resumption of Crown Forest licensed (CFL) lands and the payment of associated compensation.

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[2023] Māori Appellate Court MB 17 (2023 APPEAL 17)

8 February 2023

Unsuccessful appeal against removal of the appellant as a trustee.

Download Henderson v Brooking - Wharekahika A47 (335 KB PDF). read more

Māori Land Court (2023) Chief Judge's MB 39 (2023 CJ 39)

2 February 2023

Application seeking to amend succession orders made to Eruera or Eru Pereto. The applicant claimed that the orders were incorrect because of a mistake, error, or omission in the facts presented to the Court as the deceased's children from his other marriages were omitted from the succession orders.

Download Smith v Bristowe - Succession to Eruera Pereto also known as Eru Pereto or Eruera Taituha Pereto (396 KB PDF). read more

Māori Land Court (2023) 247 Waikato Maniapoto MB 250 (247 WMN 250)

24 January 2023

Application seeking an order for the appointment of two additional trustees to the Ongaonga 1G2 Block Trust.

Download Wray v Heath - Ongaonga No 1G Sec 2 (222 KB PDF). read more

The Constitution of New Zealand: A Contextual Analysis

Matthew SR Palmer and Dean R Knight

Hart Publishing, Oxford, 2022 (ISBN9781849469036)

Reviewed by Mihiata Pirini, law lecturer at University of Otago. read more

[2023] Māori Appellate Court MB 1 (2023 APPEAL 1)

19 January 2023

Application for costs. The respondent, the Tuaropaki E Trust, sought costs against the applicant following her unsuccessful appeal of an earlier decision in the Māori Land Court.

Download Tawa v Tuaropaki E Trust (241 KB PDF). read more

Sir Edward Taihakurei Durie student essay competition 2022

Te Ture o Takutai Moana kei muri i te kēhi o Re Edwards: examining approaches to overlapping claims for customary marine title

William Morrison*

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