In those days Māori lawyers, let alone Māori women lawyers, were thin on the ground. Māori judges were definitely a scarce commodity, however I spent a couple of years practising in Henderson when Judge Mick Brown was still sitting as a judge.
Because the individuals involved were “landless”, evidence from other successions is not always readily found.
New trustees were finally appointed in November 2011. The Court of Appeal underscored the importance of s 222.
All other sessions of the Chief Justices Conference were held at the Supreme Court of Japan. While a number of the sessions were not directly relevant to our work in the Māori Land Court, all sessions were interesting and had aspects which made you think about the work we do and how we do our work.
They only worked for a generation or two and then the shares were fractionated again, particularly with the large families that were evident in the mid 20th Century.
Between 1846 and 1848, there were eight or nine cultivations and three pā according to Heaphy’s Field Book.
External stakeholders were defined as ‘groups, individuals and government agencies with an interest in the Māori Land Court records’.
Documents/Guides-Templates-Factsheets/MLC-2017-03-03-RDS-Report.pdf (1.1 mb)
In your application you will need to include: A copy of the death certificate The deceased person’s whakapapa information, including: who were/are their parents who were/are their brothers and sisters who were/are their children who were/are their partner(s) This information will be used to research and confirm the ownership of SILNA interests.
It is they who had to sign the 80,970 orders and the hundreds of computed and complied plans that were transmitted to LINZ pursuant to the project.
But there were also times when I thought my job was the best in the world.
