Justice Joe Williams himself was the Chief Judge of the Maori Land Court before his appointment to the higher courts, and indeed the Chief Judge before him, the Honourable Sir Edward Taihakurei Durie, is also an alumnus. And although the records on the earliest Judges of the Court are often incomplete, it appears that Judge Hugh Fraser Ayson was the first VUW graduate to be appointed as a Judge of this Court.
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PĀNUI
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
Chief Judge application
To be heard via Zoom
26 March 2024
Chief Judge C L Fox
PĀ
NUI NO:
TIME: APPLICATION NO: S...
SECTION APPLICANT SUBJECT
SP5 2:30 PM AP-20260000004419 239/93 Maxwell Everitt
Williams
He whakarerekētanga ki ngā
tarahitī mō Maukoro Reserve
B1B2 and B1C2 (B4)
Replace Charmaine Tumakere with
Anthony James Williams, Dean
Keepa and Donna Patricia Edwards
as responsible trustees of the
Maukoro Reserve B1B2 and B1C2
(B4) Ahu Whenua Trust
SECTION APPLICANT SUBJECT
SP1 10.00AM AP-20250000002440 239/93
338(7)/93
Frances Joan
Markowski
He whakarerekētanga ki ngā
tarahitī mō Waipiro A41A Māori
Reservation
Replace Glen Edward Te Reo and
Sharon Harrison with Rākairoa
Tamati Maraki and William Lloyd
Donnelly as responsible trustees of
the Waipiro A41A Māori Reservation
SP2 10:00AM
AP-20240000014214
19/93 Kim West
Joanne Maraki
Waipiro A41A (Taharora Marae) –
Injunction against an...
SECTION APPLICANT SUBJECT
SP7 2:00 PM AP-20260000002971 58/93 Keremeta Ainsley,
Vanessa Mercer,
Edward Ainsley,
Sally Ainsley
Appeal 2026/10 - Tuhua Trust (Mayor
Island) against a dismissal of an
Injunction application against any
person in respect of any actual
threatened trespass or other injury to
any Māori land or Māori Reservation
heard at 293 Waikato Maniapoto MB
55-64 on 26 February 2026 – Notice of
Appeal
SECTION APPLICANT SUBJECT
SP15 11:40 AM AP-20260000001131 239/93,
338/93
Alison Dawn
Hemara-
Wahanui
He whakarerekētanga ki ngā
tarahitī mō Waiokura A, Motumate,
Waiohata, Otamare and
Orangituapeka Reserve Trust
Replace Regina Ngawaikaukau
Akapita and Rebecca Ruth Hudson
with Tania Simon as responsible
trustee of the Waiokura A,
Motumate, Waiohata, Otamare and
Orangituapeka Reserve Trust
SP16 11:45 AM AP-20260000001154 239/93,
338/93
Alison Dawn
Hemara-...
SECTION APPLICANT SUBJECT
SP8 11:15 AM AP-20240000004366 239/93 Māori Trustee Bruce Bay Block X & XI Sections
853, 854 & 855B Trust - Replace
Dorothy Fraser and Paul Wilson as
trustees and appoint Melanie
Catherine Wilson, Jane Rout and
Susan Dawn Fraser as advisory
trustees
SP9 11:15 AM AP-20240000004392 239/93 Māori Trustee He whakarerekētanga ki ngā
tarahitī mō Bruce Bay Sec 788
Block VII Ahu whenua trust
Replace Dorothy Fraser & Leonard
Te Koeti with Kara Edwar...
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Waimana WAIM
Waioeka, Parish of WAI
Wairaka WA
Whakatane WHK
Whakatohea WHAK
Whanau Apanui WHA
Urewera URE
Urewera Appellate APURE
Urewera Commission 1896 URE COM
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This is reflected in the right to self-determination in art 3 being characterised as “essential to the
enjoyment of all human rights”: Melissa Castan “DRIP Feed: The Slow Reconstruction of Self-determination for
Indigenous Peoples” in Sarah Joseph and Adam McBeth (eds) Research Handbook on International Human Rights
Law (Edward Elgar Publishing, Cheltenham, 2010) 492 at 499; see also Office of the High Commissioner for Human
Rights CCPR General Comment No 12: Article 1 (Right to Self-...
