Office hours
Offices of the Māori Land Court are open from 10 am to 4 pm on Mondays to Fridays inclusive, excluding statutory holidays
and the period of 24 December to 2 January.
Figure [5] – Chief Judge applications between June 2022 and May 2023 by total numbers
Figure [6] – Chief Judge applications in progress by number of cases
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Chief Judge Applications
Created Disposed...
TIME
APPLICATION NO.
SECTION
APPLICANT
SUBJECT
SP 1 10:45 AM AP-20230000022317
A20210010343
113/93
118/93
Carl Anthony
Wharehinga
John Stevenson -
Succession
SP 2 10:45 AM AP-20230000022436
A20220002764
113/93
118/93
Paul Edward
Graham Flutey
Paul Richard Flutey -
Succession
SP 3 11:00 AM AP-20230000019981
A20220009003
18(1)(a)/93 Rapaki Reserve
Trustees
Rapaki 875 Section
19 - Determination of
ownership of Māori
freehold l...
(Land may be vested in a trustee, or shares may be vested
in another person.)
4. An administrative structure similar to a company for managing Māori land vested
in it by the Māori Land Court.
5.
Then lastly, the Court, of its own motion pursuant to section 37(3) of the Act makes a
further order as follows:
Pursuant to section 183(4) of the Act appointing Ropata Taylor and Ihaia Raharuhi as
interim agents for the purposes set out in section 183(6) on behalf of all the owners,
and in particular to negotiate with the Tasman District Council in respect of the council’s
occupation of the land.
TIME APPLICATION NO. SECTION APPLICANT SUBJECT
SP 4 10:00 AM AP-20230000025567
A20160002776
21/94 Hariata Jaime
Anderson,
Phillip Smith,
Richard James
Smith, Kelvyn
Aden Hui,
Pamela
Arohaina
Webber and
Larry
Wharekaramu
Henare
Okauia 2F2B1A Block (Omeka
Marae) – Inquiry into the
Administration of a Māori
Reservation
mailto:mlcwaikato@justice.govt.nz
Waikato-Maniapoto
PĀNUI
Contact Details
Office Waikato-Maniapoto District
Address...
Refuse to Answer, 7, 3%
1-2 years
13, 6%
More than 2 years
7, 3%
Refuse to Answer
5, 2%
Refuse to answer, 2, 1%Refuse to Answer, 4, 2%
Court minutes and orders | Ngā miniti me ngā ōta
Two pātai were asked about the court minutes and orders.
It is within this joint sphere that I believe the Courts have a role to ensure that the Treaty relationship is
upheld.
4 Te Rōpū Whakamana i te Tiriti o Waitangi | Waitangi Tribunal Muriwhenua Land Report (Wai 45, 1997) at 110–115.
5 Ibid at 113.
6 McHugh “The Māori Magna Carta”, at 146
7 IH Kawharu (ed) Waitangi: Māori and Pākehā Perspectives of the Treaty of Waitangi (Oxford University Press,
Auckland, 1989) at 321.
8 Te Rōpū Whakamana i te Tiriti o Waitangi |...
TIME APPLICATION NO. SECTION APPLICANT SUBJECT
SP 3 11.30PM AP-20250000007250 215/93
219/93
Te Whetu
Marama Morrell
He whakatū i te Whānau Morera
Ahu Whenua Trust me te kopou i
ngā tarahitī me te tuku i ngā pānga
whenua ki a rātou
Constitute the Te Whānau Morera
Ahu Whenua Trust over Paeroa
1E14 (Urupa)
SP 4 12.00PM AP-20250000004697
AP-20250000004708
AP-20250000006309
AP-20250000004711
43/93
231/93
238/93
241/93
Raiha Allen
Leo Watson...