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Pātaka Whenua Step-By-Step Guides
Search for a document
Date produced: 25 July 2024
Last modified: 25 July 2024
You do not need to be a registered Pātaka Whenua user in order to search and access
documents for information.
You can search for the following document types in Pātaka Whenua:
• Derivation search report
• Historic record sheet
• National Pānui
• Special Pānui
• Survey Plan
• Judgment
• Orders
• Minute
• Minute Book Index
• Historic Ownership Sc...
TIP: For Excel files, you will need to have access
to software that can view the file type. If you do not
have any, try downloading the file as a PDF instead.
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Step 1
After navigating to the required block information page, scroll down until you see the block map.
Pātaka Whenua Guidance
Guest User Guide
Date produced: 14 August 2023
Last modified: 14 December 2023
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Guest User Guide
Te Kooti Whenua Māori – Māori Land Court
You do not need to register in Pātaka Whenua to be able to access information or make an application or enquiry.
However, the reality was that some of our Māori Land Court staff were ill-equipped to do this due to both a lack of resources, and a lack of access to court records. While the Ministry of Justice tried to disseminate resources such as laptops and tablets, preference was given to the courts dealing with priority proceedings.
Increasing the skills and capabilities of those in governance, or improving their access to others who do have the requisite skills and capabilities, is the key challenge to improving the utilisation of Māori land.
We are working to
make it easier for all users to access the technol-
ogy’s features, including accessing information
about your whenua, search and viewing the
court record, download reports and making an
application or enquiry online.
Benefits beyond Registration First The project provided an opportunity to clean up Māori Land titles providing more certainty for owners keen to develop their lands, including improving their access to loan finance. Second The Ministry now has a large human resource pool with specialist knowledge of the Māori Land title system.
That was an environment of predominantly Māori students, set timetables, specified study periods, limited or no access to technology (and by that I mean televisions) and no wāhine.
The website was substantially upgraded in early 2011 and now provides:
Judgments;
one page summaries of all decisions except decisions by judge alone;
transcripts of oral argument;
summaries of pending cases;
public access to the parties’ written submissions in upcoming cases.
