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In
her book The Treaty of Waitangi (1987), Claudia
Orange argued that the Native Lands Act
1865 ‘effectively severed the threads of Crown
protection and nullified the treaty’s second
article’ (p 179). David Williams’ book Te Kooti
HISTORICAL FOUNDATIONS OF THE COURT 1862–1890s
Tango Whenua: The Native Land Court 1864-1909
(1999) was a generally critical study of the Court,
arguing that it was so closely interconnected
with government policy that it essentially should
not be...
SECTION APPLICANT SUBJECT
SP 5 10:00 AM AP-20250000010880 58/93 David Taui Appeal 2025/19 - Lot 3 Deposited Plan
South Auckland 19992 block (Tura Te
Ngakau Lands Trust) and an order
removing a trustee made at 344 Waiariki
MB 9-14 on 30/7/2025 - Notice of
Appeal (Respondent: Joseph Edwards)
SECTION APPLICANT SUBJECT
SP8 10:30 AM AP-20240000014080 240/93 Shelly
Puohotaua
He whakarerekētanga ki ngā
tarahitī mō Rakato B Trust
Reduce the trustees of Rakato B
Trust by removing Taara Green,
David Puohotaua, Mary Whanarere,
Matariki Cribb-Fox, and Kim
Ranginui
Judicial Conference.
SECTION APPLICANT SUBJECT
SP 1 10.30 AM
AP-20250000013877 19(1)(b)/93 David Albert
Mercer
Ongarahu B - Injunction against any
person in respect of any actual
threatened trespass or other injury to
any Māori land or Māori Reservation.
SECTION APPLICANT SUBJECT
SP 6 10:00 AM AP-20250000011912 58/93 Sara Terehia
Hona
Appeal 2025/21 - He whakarerekētanga
ki ngā tarahitī mō Oriwa Hereaka
Whānau Trust – Remove Sara Terehia
Hona as responsible trustee of the
Oriwa Hereaka Whānau Trust and an
order dismissing a strike out application
made at 347 Waiariki MB 65-78 on 15
Hepetema 2025 – Notice of Appeal
(Respondents: Anthony James Marino,
Catherine Te Waaka, David Herewini,
Geoffrey Keith Marino, Jacqu...
Te Kooti Whenua Māori/ Te Kooti Pira Māori Pūrongo-A-Tau - Matariki 2023 - 2024
ANNUAL
REPORT
Te Kooti Pīra Māori
Māori Appellate Court
Matariki 2024
Matariki 2025
2 Māori Land Court / Māori Appellate Court Annual Report • Matariki 2024 – Matariki 2025
Nau mai e te ao
Haere mai i te pō
Kuhu mai e te wairua
Tū mai…
(c) Third, where tikanga values comprise a source of the New Zealand common law.44 or
have been integrated into law by statutory reference45
41 Tautari v Mahanga – Mohinui 3B2B (2011) 18 Taitokerau MB 6 (18 TTK 6) at [33].
42 Te Ture Whenua Māori Act 1993.
43 See Ani Mikaere “The Treaty of Waitangi and Recognition of Tikanga Māori” in Michael Belgrave, Merata Kawharu and
David V Williams (eds) Waitangi Revisited: Perspectives on the Treaty of Waitangi (2nd ed, Oxford Univers...
