Why and how the Rules are changing
The Rules set out how the Court operates – including what the Court and Registrar s must do, and what applicants and other parties need to do when filing applications and documents.
Pātaka Whenua Guidance
Registered User Guide
Date produced: 15 August 2023
Last modified: 13 December 2023
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Registered User Guide
Te Kooti Whenua Māori – Māori Land Court
Being a registered user means you can:
• Create and submit applications online
• Save and return to your incomplete applications
• Track progress on your applications
• Pay filing fees
• Submit enquiries
• Receive notifications on your applications and enquir...
If a successor has passed away
If your whanaunga is named on the list but has passed away, apply to the Māori Land Court for succession.
View the Hāwea/Wānaka Succession Form here .
Developed by judges for judges and published by Te Kura Kaiwhakawā (Institute of Judicial Studies), the bench book offers guidance on what judges may need to know, understand, and do when hearing applications in the Māori Land Court (the Court).
Te tuku uiui
Submit an enquiry online
Submit an enquiry online in Pātaka Whenua. When you get there, click on submit enquiry.
Paneke
Upcoming paneke
Find out when the next paneke is coming to your area.
If you’d like to have your application heard completely in te reo Māori, please let us know when you submit your application, so that we can arrange te reo Māori speakers and translators to attend your court hearing.
He pānuitanga tēnei kia mōhiotia ai ka tū Te Kooti Whenua
Māori ki te whakawā, ki te uiui hoki, i ngā tikanga o ngā tono
a muri ake - Nau mai, haere mai
A Special Sitting
At Whanganui
Māori Land Court, Ingestre Chambers, 74 Ingestre Street, Whanganui
Tuesday, 22 April 2025
Judge A H C Warren Presiding
Join Via Zoom
Meeting ID: 879 6913 4540
PĀNUI
NO.
TIME APPLICATION NO. SECTION APPLICANT SUBJECT
SP12 12:00 PM AP-20230000029499 280/93 G...
He pānuitanga tēnei kia mōhiotia ai ka tū Te Kooti Whenua
Māori ki te whakawā, ki te uiui hoki, i ngā tikanga o ngā tono
a muri ake - Nau mai, haere mai
A Special Sitting
At Ōpōtiki
Te Aho Wānanga, 115 Church Street, Ōpōtiki
Tuesday, 17 June 2025
Judge C M Wainwright Presiding
PĀNUI
NO.
TIME APPLICATION NO. SECTION APPLICANT SUBJECT
SP31 1:00 PM AP-20240000008106 231/93 Te Raumiria
McRoberts
He whakarerekētanga ki ngā
tarahitī mō Pahaoa...
It includes:
Court files (the physical and electronic application file that holds all documents and correspondence about a matter in the Court)
Minute books (the physical copy of all conversations and decisions made by the Court)
Court orders (the decisions made by a Registrar or the Court)
Instruments of alienation (the legal tool used to make changes to a land block)
Block order files (the physical record of all dealings and decisions about a land block filed and held by th...
