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A list of recent Māori Land Updates can be downloaded as follows: Document Date  Māori Land Update 2024 23/09/2024 Māori Land Update 2023 19/05/2023 Māori Land Update 2022 16/07/2022 Māori Land Update 2021 09/02/2022 Māori Land Update 2020 09/02/2021 Māori Land Update 2019 27/08/2019 Māori Land Update 2018 30/06/2018 Māori Land Update 2017...

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Judge Te Kani Williams analyses how New Zealand's laws protect indigenous cultural heritage and customary rights, and poses the question - are they adequate?

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SECTION APPLICANT SUBJECT SP 19 10:00AM AP-20230000019637 A20160002930 45/93 Flora Falanaki CJ 2016/14 - Donald McLeod - and succession orders made at 38 South Island MB 228-232 on 10/08/1961 - Application to the Chief Judge SP 20 10:15AM AP-20230000019652 A20170006414 45/93 Rihitia Totorewa, Rangaiti Mathews CJ 2017/35 - Parihaka Papakainga and a trustee order made at 72 Taranaki MB 86 on 25 January 1962 - Application to the Chief Judge SP 21 10:30AM...

Documents/Panui/16.-Te-Whakamaene-Chief-Judge-Specials-19-June-2024.pdf (141 kb)

Background Today, owners their whanau and hapu, the Māori Land Court staff and its judges have inherited a system of Māori land title that many have claimed to be inconsistent with Māori customary preferences.

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The introduction of Pātaka Whenua marked the closing of MLIS (Māori Land Information System), the previous Māori Land Court technol- ogy system, which has served the court and land- owners/users since 1999.

Documents/Articles/Maori-Land-Court-Annual-Report-Matariki-2022-Matariki-2023.pdf (11 mb)

Only roughly five percent of Aotearoa is now Māori land. Most Māori land is rural and much of it is remote.

Located in:  Who we are Our judges Judges' corner articles

Changes also strengthen the protections for Māori land. For example, when whenua is changed from Māori customary land to Māori freehold land, the interests of the owners will not be individualised.

Documents/Guides-Templates-Factsheets/Amendments-to-Te-Ture-Whenua-Maori-Act-1993-December-2020.pdf (891 kb)

FRAGMENTATION/FRAGMENTING Fragmentation occurs when a person’s shares in land are divided amongst other people. GENERAL LAND Land that is not Māori land (either Māori Freehold Land or Māori Customary Land) and which is not Crown Land.

Documents/Guides-Templates-Factsheets/MLC-2023-Glossary-of-terms.pdf (278 kb)

Te Kooti Whenua Māori – Māori Land Court (MLC) is the New Zealand Court that hears matters relating to Māori land.

Documents/Guides-Templates-Factsheets/MOJ0217.1E-OCT21-Maori-Land-Trusts.pdf (341 kb)

Public Office (Agency) Information 6 3.1. The Māori Land Court Business Unit 6 3.2. History of the Māori Land Court 7 3.3.

Documents/Guides-Templates-Factsheets/MLC-2017-03-03-RDS-Report.pdf (1.1 mb)