Ngā Pānui Mai i Te Whakamāene – Special Applications The earlier part of the reporting year saw a team focus on progressing new applications to Court in a timely fashion in conjunction with progressing our oldest on hand applications (being those applications on the team filed in 2013 or earlier).
Documents/Articles/Maori-Land-Court-Annual-Report-Matariki-2022-Matariki-2023.pdf (11 mb)
SECTION APPLICANT SUBJECT SP6 10:00 AM AP-20240000013666 67/93 236/93 237/93 238/93 240/93 Tarina MacDonald, Glen Skipper, and Rangi Kipa Ngāti Tawhirikura Hapū Charitable Trust – Injunction against any person in respect of any actual threatened trespass or other injury to any Māori land or Māori Reservation (Respondents: Ngāti Tawhirikura Hapū Charitable trustees Beverly Gibson, Sam Williams, and Sharron Wipiti) The Court may convene...
Consideration of an application On receiving an application, the trustees can request further information.
Documents/Guides-Templates-Factsheets/MLC-maori-reservations-english.pdf (389 kb)
Before you apply, you need to choose the type of partition that fits your situation. Option one – Hapū partition A hapū partition means the new land blocks stay with owners who are members of the same hapū.
How-do-I-user-guides/How-to-apply-for-Partition-of-Maori-freehold-land.pdf (490 kb)
If an application for succession includes a whāngai child, we will refer to the tikanga of the relevant hapū or iwi to which the land and whānau are connected.
PAGE 5 of 15 DISMISS AN APPLICATION A judge can dismiss an application at any point.
Documents/Guides-Templates-Factsheets/MLC-2023-Glossary-of-terms.pdf (278 kb)
This land is held in accordance with tikanga Māori, and unlike Māori freehold land, and there are no ‘legal owners’ of Māori customary land. However, there are hapū, iwi, and whānau that whakapapa to this land and may have used it for generations.
CONSIDERATION OF AN APPLICATION On receiving an application, the trustees can request further information.
Documents/Guides-Templates-Factsheets/MOJ0217.4E-OCT21-Maori-Reservations.pdf (348 kb)
Where required, information provided in this application will be included in resulting orders of the Court.
Documents/Forms/MLC-Form-25-Confirmation-alienation.pdf (125 kb)
Judge Wara has broad experience in both the Waitangi Tribunal and the Māori Land Court, acting for whānau, hapū and iwi. Judge Wara is also a member of the Waitangi Tribunal.
