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TE KOOTI WHENUA MĀORI / MĀORI LAND COURT
Place: Hamilton
Present: R P Mullins, Judge
A Ellis, Court Taker
Date: 26 September 2024
Panui No: Chambers Application No: AP-20240000007307
Subject: RESCHEDULING OF WAIKATO MANIAPOTO COURT SITTING
DATE
Legislation: Rule 3.8(1)(b), Māori Land Court Rules 2011
The Court: I have considered the 2024 September and November Waikato Maniapoto
District court sitting dates for Thames that...
The application to the Court
The application was not contentious, however there were two issues for the Court to
determine:
(1) The area of land had no LINZ title, nor any current title in the Court’s records.
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decision in which there remain outstanding matters for the Court to address.
It also holds information about the whakapapa of landowners. It includes:
Court files (the physical and electronic application file that holds all documents and correspondence about a matter in the Court)
Minute books (the physical copy of all conversations and decisions made by the Court)
Court orders (the decisions made by a Registrar or the Court)
Instruments of alienation (the legal tool used to make changes to a land block)
Block order files (the phy...
(b) A mortgagee sale does not have to be confirmed by the Court.
(c) Generally, the Court is not involved in a mortgagee sale unless an application
is made per Part 3 of the Property Law Act 2017.
Currently Aotearoa New Zealand has 11 women judges of Māori ancestry who serve on the High Court, District Court and Māori Land Court. That figure represents about 4.8% of the judiciary.
If you’re making a whenua timeline you can access historical information of that whenua as recorded in the Māori Land Court (or our predecessor, the Native Land Court).
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