Whiringa-ā-rangi 2020 November – 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

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.

Print version

Download the Māori Law Review November 2020 (571 KB PDF)