Haratua 2025 May – Contents

Te Kōti Pīra Māori – Māori Appellate Court

Trusts - beneficiary information request - Nikora v Trustees of the Tūhoe - Te Uru Taumatua Trust [2025] Māori Appellate Court MB 192 - Arthur Linkhorn

2025 Māori Appellate Court judgments - index

2024 Māori Appellate Court judgments - index

Te Kōti Whenua Māori – Māori Land Court

Jurisdiction - charitable trust - Skipper v Gibson – Ngāti  Tawhirikura Hapū Charitable Trust (2025) 498 MB Aotea MB 148 (498 AOT 148) - Craig Linkhorn

2025 Māori Land Court judgments - index

2024 Māori Land Court judgments - index

Te Rōpū Whakamana i Te Tiriti o Waitangi - Waitangi Tribunal

Kawanatanga - Interim Regulatory Standards Bill Urgent Report (Wai 3470, 2025) - Craig Linkhorn


Trusts – beneficiary information request – Nikora

Nikora v Trustees of the Tūhoe - Te Uru Taumatua Trust

[2025] Māori Appellate Court MB 192 (2025 APPEAL 192)

5 May 2025

Successful appeal against lower Court's refusal to make orders requiring the Trust to provide trust information requested by a beneficiary. Matter referred back to the lower Court for determination.

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Kawanatanga – Interim Regulatory Standards Bill Urgent Report

The Interim Regulatory Standards Bill Urgent Report

Te Rōpū Whakamana i Te Tiriti o Waitangi - Waitangi Tribunal (Wai 3470, 2025)

16 May 2025

This report concerns the proposed Regulatory Standards Bill. The Tribunal's report was prepared urgently and on an interim basis ahead of introduction of the Bill to the House of Representatives.

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