TITLE IMPROVEMENT Te Kooti Whenua Māori – Māori Land Court For more information, go to maorilandcourt.govt.nz Te Kooti Whenua Māori – Māori Land Court (MLC) is the New Zealand Court that hears matters relating to Māori land.
Documents/Guides-Templates-Factsheets/MOJ0217.5E-OCT21-Title-Improvement.pdf (357 kb)
SECTION APPLICANT SUBJECT 32 10:00 AM AP-20250000002925 231/93 Māori Trustee He arotakenga i te Parihaka 14B Ahu Whenua Trust Review of the Parihaka 14B Ahu Whenua Trust 33 10:05 AM AP-20250000004115 133/93 David Francis Fleming, Lisa Maree Ison, Patricia Cherie Mackenzie He panonitanga ki te tūnga taitara o Lot 2 Deposited Plan 607153 (formerly known as Part Ngatitara 4F) mai i te whenua atu i te whenua Māori ki te whenua Māori Change...
Documents/Panui/Maori-Land-Court-National-Panui-August-2025-Edition.pdf (2 mb)
order of the Māori Land Court dated: / / 2. Is title completed by survey?
Documents/Forms/MLC-Form-39-Application-for-a-partition.pdf (194 kb)
There are 27,137 Māori freehold land titles and approximately 2.3 million ownership interests in those titles.
In future, the court will provide non-judicial mediators who have the right skills to resolve disputes over Māori land.
14. Where the title to the land is held by a Māori land trust or a Māori Incorporation, the mortgage has to be sent to the Māori Land Court’s Registrar for noting (ss 150A and 150B of the Act).
Quarterly Schedule of Outstanding Applications aged over 6 months old held by Māori Land Court or Māori Appellate Court as at 31 August 2021 Produced pursuant to rul 5.11 of the Māori Land Court Rules 2011 OFFICE OF THE CHIEF REGISTRAR (WELLINGTON) FILEID RECEIVED SUBJECT AUTHORITY APPLICANT(S) 5.11(1)(b)(iii) Reason A20070003193 7/03/2007 CJ 2008/32 - Werehiko Te Manahi - Application to Chief Judge 45/93 Elizabeth Raukawa Chase 3.
Quarterly Schedule of Outstanding Applications aged over 6 months old held by Māori Land Court or Māori Appellate Court as at 31 August 2021 Produced pursuant to rul 5.11 of the Māori Land Court Rules 2011 OFFICE OF THE CHIEF REGISTRAR (WELLINGTON) FILEID RECEIVED SUBJECT AUTHORITY APPLICANT(S) 5.11(1)(b)(iii) Reason A20070003193 7/03/2007 CJ 2008/32 - Werehiko Te Manahi - Application to Chief Judge 45/93 Elizabeth Raukawa Chase 3.
First, the report recommends that the law “provide transparent registration provisions for Māori land titles and assurance of title to reflect the nature of Māori land tenure as a collectively held tāonga tuku iho.”
Documents/Judges-corner-articles/MLC-2014-Jun-Judges-Corner-Ambler-J.pdf (191 kb)
The application to the Court The application was not contentious, however there were two issues for the Court to determine: (1) The area of land had no LINZ title, nor any current title in the Court’s records.
