Pātaka Whenua Guidance
Registered User Guide
Date produced: 15 August 2023
Last modified: 13 December 2023
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Registered User Guide
Te Kooti Whenua Māori – Māori Land Court
Being a registered user means you can:
• Create and submit applications online
• Save and return to your incomplete applications
• Track progress on your applications
• Pay filing fees
• Submit enquiries
• Receive notifications on your applications and enquiries from the court
•...
(Address to which documents or correspondence in connection with the application can be posted or delivered)
Phone Number(s):
Home: Work:
Mobile:
Email Address:
NOTE: Where email addresses are given these may be used as a means of notice and service.
Fee: $399.00
Note:
Information provided in all applications forms part of the Court’s permanent record under rule 7.19 of the Māori Land Court
Rules 2011.
The name Te Puna Manawa Whenua can be translated to mean ‘the spring from deep underground.’ The imagery of a spring has been used to represent the wealth of knowledge regarding the law that has been pooled together in this bench book and that will be used to support both the land and the people who come to the Court.
For instance, an alienation includes the making or grant of any lease, licence, easement, mortgage or charge or any kind of encumbrance or trust in respect of the land in the reservation. This means that there can be no borrowing against the reservation lands and leaves trustees with problems as to how to raise money to maintain and preserve buildings, services, and the grounds and other facilities on the reservation.
Training programmes are currently run out of some Court district offices, although there is no overall consistency in the training offered, and the programmes vary in each region, which means that training is not available to all trustees, and where it is available, it may not be comprehensive.
Conduct of Mediation The mediation process gives the mediator wide discretion on how the mediation will operate and makes it clear that that the process will be a confidential one and conducted on a without prejudice basis, meaning that confidential documents or settlement offers made in the mediation cannot be used against a party Court if the matter does not settle at mediation.
Conduct of Mediation
The mediation process gives the mediator wide discretion on how the mediation will operate
and makes it clear that that the process will be a confidential one and conducted on a without
prejudice basis, meaning that confidential documents or settlement offers made in the
mediation cannot be used against a party Court if the matter does not settle at mediation.
The fact that a particular relationship falls
outside the examples in these guidelines does not automatically mean that there cannot
be a reasonable apprehension of bias in the particular circumstances of the case at
hand.
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