A total of 5,208 new applications were registered over the period, a four per cent decrease on the year prior.
Documents/Articles/Maori-Land-Court-Annual-Report-Matariki-2023-Matariki-2024.pdf (11 mb)
Accordingly, the Court sit- tings to swear in these new judges were conducted largely online using video-conferencing.
Documents/Articles/Maori-Land-Court-Annual-Report-Matariki-2022-Matariki-2023.pdf (11 mb)
According to our history, in the years of the 1970s, you were close to your demise. Only 17% of Māori knew how to speak te reo, only 5% of our children in schools could speak te reo, and furthermore, there were people of that time who declared there was no benefit in teaching te reo and no benefit in the continued survival of te reo Māori.
Traditional whenua boundaries of hapū and whānau were changed and not all members were granted ownership.
The modern Māori Land Court exists in an environment that is significantly different to that in which was created on 30 October 1865 by the General Assembly of the New Zealand Colony under the Native Lands Act 1865. We were established to convert customary Māori land into titles which could be acquired, initially by the colonial government and later by individual settlers.
Mā te tomokanga ā-ipurangi e hāpai tā te Kooti mahi ki te tautoko i te iwi whānui kia tiro- hia ngā mōhiohio, kia noho tahi ki te Kooti, kia whakahaeretia ngā kōtitanga anō hoki.
Documents/Articles/Te-Kooti-Whenua-Maori-Purongo-a-tau-Matariki-2022-Matariki-2023.pdf (11 mb)
They were there because often the competing parties in the Court were proxies or stand
Documents/Guides-Templates-Factsheets/MLC-150-years-of-the-Maori-Land-Court.pdf (11 mb)
Pirihira Cribb - Pae Ārahi o te Waharoa “Ko au te taupā kiihai puawai ōku moemoea” Ko te tūranga o te Puna Hāpai kia hāpai te tāngata i Te Kooti Whenua Māori kia waipuketia tōna ake puna hei oranga mo te whānau i te whenua.
Only applications and sittings that were confirmed at the time of this publication are listed.
Documents/Panui/0111324-Ministry-of-Justice_Panui-March-2024.pdf (1 mb)
Only applications and sittings that were confirmed at the time of this publication are listed.
