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Chief Judge Fox has also been the presiding officer for the Waitangi Tribunal on the Aquaculture claims, the Te Arawa Mandate and Settlement claims, Central North Island Stage 1 claims, the Te Kōhanga Reo claims and the Te Rohe Pōtae claims.
Claire joined the Māori Land Court in 2017 and brings extensive leadership knowledge and experience to her current position as Pae Ārahi o Te Rito.
Based in Palmerston North, Claire holds a Bachelor of Arts degree and a Post-graduate diploma from Massey University in Palmerston North.
Chief Judge Fox was appointed as a Māori Land Court judge on 1 October 2000, and shortly thereafter was appointed as the Presiding Officer of the Waitangi Tribunal’s Central North Island district inquiry in 2001. She has gone on to lead a number of Tribunal inquiries, including the Porirua ki Manawatū and Te Rohe Pōtae district inquiries, the Constitutional kaupapa inquiry, and urgent inquiries into claims concerning aquaculture and marine farming, Te Arawa Treaty settlement and mandating...
S Overall, an average Māori land block has a size of 52.64 ha and 111 owners.
S The total number of allocated ownership records recorded in all blocks is 3,136.458.
No matter what type of activity it is, whether it had a law focus, be language-based, an iwi, hapū or whānau initiative, no matter the kaupapa, you have always been there lending an ear to my problems and complaints about how hard everything has been, about how exhausting the lawyer life can be, about the tiresome nature of people generally, about the ins and outs of the Declaration and te Tiriti o Waitangi (yes, I am a true progeny of the North), and despite all of those tedious traits I...
- The Crown is not bound by tikanga per se, but tikanga may give rise to legally enforceable
obligations.
39 Te Rōpū Whakamana i te Tiriti o Waitangi | Waitangi Tribunal Te Paparahi o Te Raki Stage One Report He
Whakaputanga me Te Tiriti (Wai 1040, 2014).
40 Brief of Evidence of Professor Anne Salmond, Te Paparahi o Te Raki Inquiry, Wai 1040, #A22 including translations
from the works of Merimeri Penfold.
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Whilst I agree with all of these points, my view in respect of p...
