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Gerry was a very knowledgeable kaumatua from Ngāi Tuhoe, was a veteran of the Vietnam war and was a lovely, kind and gentle man and again his death is a great loss. To the ChiefJudge, the DeputyChiefJudge, the Deputy Chair of the Waitangi Tribunal, and all of the Judges of this Honourable.
She was also appointed as an Alternate Environment Court Judge in 2009. ChiefJudge Fox was appointed as the DeputyChiefJudge of the Māori Land Court in 2010, and as the ChiefJudge of the Court in 2023.
The regionally based ChiefJudge minute book series
are as follows:
District Minute Book Abbreviation
Taitokerau ChiefJudge WHCJ
Waikato-
Maiapoto
ChiefJudges CJWM
ChiefJudges
Appellate Auckland
and Wellington
APCJ
ChiefJudge Jones
Minute Book
(Section 7/22)
JJON
ChiefJudges
Successions
CJSO
ChiefJudges
Successions
Orders – Index
ICJSO
Chief...
Office of the Chief Registrar
PĀNUI
Contact Details
Office Office of the Chief Registrar
Address Level 7, Fujitsu Tower, 141 The Terrace, Wellington
Mailing address DX Box 11203, Wellington
Phone 04 914 3102
Email mlc.chief-registrars.office@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 to...
Office of the Chief Registrar
PĀNUI
Contact Details
Office Office of the Chief Registrar
Address Level 7, Fujitsu Tower, 141 The Terrace, Wellington
Mailing address DX Box 11203, Wellington
Phone 04 914 3102
Email mlc.chief-registrars.office@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 to...
The first, described in more detail later in this report,
is the publication of Te Puna Manawa Whenua, the
Māori Land Court Bench book, made possible by a
judicial team led by DeputyChiefJudge Coxhead and
Judge Stone with the assistance of our legal clerks.
The Court has a ChiefJudge, a DeputyChiefJudge, seven permanent Judges, two temporary and one
acting Judge distributed throughout the country across the Māori Land Court registries.
