Steven Dodd - Kairēhita Matua
Ngāti Whakaue, Ngāti Pikiao, Ngāti Rangiwewehi Steve first began work in the Maori Affairs Department in July 1984 working Māori Trustee and then the Land Development division before becoming an Alienation Officer in 1989.
I tae ā-ipurangi atu ngā Kaiwhakawā me ngā
kaimahi puta noa i te motu ki taua hui ā-motu, i
tae ā-tinana atu te Whenua Māori Programme,
ngā kaimahi o te Tahū o te Ture, Te Puni Kōkiri me
ngā māngai o Te Tumu Paeroa kia noho tahi ki ngā
Kaiwhakawā me ngā kaimahi nō Pōneke.
Te whakaoatitanga o Kaiwhakawā
Matua Fox i Te Pā, i Te Whare
Wānanga o Waikato
◆ Kei te mau wārati anō hei
Kaiwhakawā Kē o Te Kooti Taiao
Kaiwhakawā Te Kani Williams
Tūhoe, Whakatōhea, Ngāi Tai
ki Torere, Ngāti Manawa, Ngāti
Maniapoto, Tainui, Te Aupouri
◆ I kopoua i te 9 o Hakihea 2021
(te Kaiwhakawā 117 o Te Kooti
Whenua Māori)
◆ Kaiwhakawā Tūturu, Te Taitokerau
◆ Āpiha Whakawā o Te Rōpū
Whakamana i te Tiriti o Waitangi:
Te Ruku Tātari Ohotata mō Te
Reo Māori k...
E rere
ana ngā mihi mahana ki Ngāti Pōneke Māori Arts,
for their manaakitanga in hosting our Matariki
Horahora kaupapa during their week of Matariki
festivities.
Full biographies of the judges can be found on the Māori Land Court website, the following is a snapshot of the
bench.
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Te Kooti Whenua Māori/ Te Kooti Pīra Māori Pūrongo-Ā-Tau Matariki 2022 – Matariki 2023
Judge Sarah Reeves
Te Ātiawa
ӹ Appointed 10 December
2010 (110th Māori Land
Court Judge)
ӹ Appointed Deputy
Chairperson, Waitangi
Tribunal 24 November 2021
ӹ Acting Chairperson, Waitangi Tribunal from 1 May
to 22 August 2023
ӹ Resident Judge, Te Waipounamu
ӹ Waitangi Tri...
There some 29
separate claimants and claimant groups, some
laying claim to the whole of the island and
others only to sections of it, mostly representing
sections or hapū of Ngāti Whakaue, Ngāti
Uenukukōpako, Ngāti Rangiwewehi, and Ngāti
Rangiteaorere.
In the recent High Court decision of Ngāti Whātua Ōrākei Trust v Attorney-General [2022] NZHC 843,
there was considerable discussion of tikanga Māori in the context of who exercised mana whenua
where the following were found;
- Tikanga Māori is a source of broadly shared core values (tāhuhu) that may inform the
development of the law and in some contexts is law
