AOTEA PĀNUI Contact Details Office Aotea Māori Land Court, Ingestre Chambers Address 74 Ingestre Street Mailing address DX Box PX10207, Whanganui Phone 06-3490770 Email mlcaotea@justice.govt.nz Office hours Monday to Friday 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM (Closed on Public Holidays) He pānuitanga tēnei kia mōhiotia ai ka tū Te Kooti Whenua Māori ki te whakawā, ki te uiui hoki, i ngā tikanga o ngā tono a muri ake - Nau mai, haere mai Special Court Sitting The followin...
SECTION APPLICANT SUBJECT SP 1 3.00PM AP-20250000007622 19/93 Rora Turapa Wirihana Matamata North H (Tame Taka Wirihana Ahu Whenua Trust) – Injunction against any person in respect of any actual threatened trespass or other injury to any Māori land or Māori Reservation Respondents: Heather Tuhakaraina, Cherry Tuhakaraina, Rangaiti Thompson and Lillian Horohepara mailto:mlcwaikato@justice.govt.nz
Documents/Panui/12.-Waikato-Maniapoto-6-August-2025.pdf (123 kb)
The block contains 40.3674 hectares and is situated on Wataroa Road East of SH 45, 500m north of Pungarehu township. A meeting of the owners of the land will be held as follows: PLACE: Ōpunake Community Hall, 38 Domett Street, Ōpunake 4616 DATE: Saturday 14 February 2026 TIME: 11am Further information can be obtained from the Aotea Māori Land Court on (06) 3490770 (please quote reference AP-20230000022918 (A20220002980).
Documents/Landowner-notices/2.-Aotea-Notice-to-owners.pdf (246 kb)
SECTION APPLICANT SUBJECT SP 1 10:00AM AP-20230000020178 A20220013485 113/93 118/93 Raewyn Timms Kathleen Ray Hemo Whareumu Clark – Succession SP 2 10:00AM AP-20230000020118 A20220012367 239/93, 338(7)/93 Lynn Freeman Te Komiti Z2B – Replace Sue Rihari and Add Lynn Freeman as trustee SP 3 10:00AM AP-20230000028910 A20230001002 214/93 219/93 Hohepa Joseph Puru Hohepa Kawe Puru Whānau Trust – Constitute a whānau trust SP 4 10:00AM AP-20230000021387 A20230008423...
Documents/Panui/28.-Taitokerau-Special-1-October-2024.pdf (138 kb)
SECTION APPLICANT SUBJECT SP25 12:30 PM AP-20240000007226 239/93 Marilyn Miller Hoe O Tainui North 2B2 & Hoe O Tainui 2B1A2B2 Trust – Replace Cora Nahu and Billy Pompey and appoint Patricia Hauraki, Cassandra Randall-Waetford and Tracy Nahu as responsible trustees WA TINA – 1:00 PM SP26 2:00 PM AP-20250000008781 67/93 Trustees of Te Kawaunui Trust Te Kawaunui Trust - Judicial conference (seek directions) NB: The court may convene a hearing to make orders at the...
Documents/Panui/42.-Waikato-Maniapoto-16-October-2025.pdf (161 kb)
AOTEA PĀNUI Contact Details Office Aotea Māori Land Court, Ingestre Chambers Address 74 Ingestre Street Mailing address DX Box PX10207, Whanganui Phone 06-3490770 Email mlcaotea@justice.govt.nz Office hours Monday to Friday 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM (Closed on Public Holidays) He pānuitanga tēnei kia mōhiotia ai ka tū Te Kooti Whenua Māori ki te whakawā, ki te uiui hoki, i ngā tikanga o ngā tono a muri ake - Nau mai, haere mai Special Court Sitting The followin...
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...
International connections – Welcoming Taiwan’s Legal Aid Delegation In April 2025, Waiariki had the privilege of host- ing a delegation from the Legal Aid Foundation of Taiwan.
Documents/Articles/Maori-Land-Court-Annual-Report-Matariki-2024-Matariki-2025.pdf (16 mb)
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. 12 Whilst I agree with all of these points, my view in respect of p...
Documents/Judges-corner-articles/JWI-ACPECT-Presentation-2022.pdf (540 kb)
