SECTION APPLICANT SUBJECT SP5 1:30 PM AP-20260000004388 19/93 Blair Anthony Strang Takahiwai 5E2 & Other Blocks - Injunction against any person in respect of any actual threatened trespass of other injury to any Māori land or Māori Reservation. Respondents (Edward Kepa, Diane Kepa, Mere Kepa, Wendy Kepa, Stephanie Sheriff, Corinthia Kepa, Craig Harding, Peter Harding, Grant Harding & Gail Newton.)
Māori Land Court user survey | Te uiuinga kiritaki o Te Kooti Whenua Māori Recently we completed the �rst Māori Land Court User Survey.
Documents/Misc/MLC-User-Survey-2025-Infographic-V5-Te-Reo-Headings.pdf (372 kb)
On this page Records available for viewing Making copies of the court record Records available for viewing Most of the record is available to the public for viewing in hard copy. Information about whenua is generally held by the district office that is located closest to that land block.
1 CJ Media statement, “Note from Chief Justice Winkelmann” released 25 March 2020. 2 Māori Land Court COVID-19 Court protocol as at 23 March 2020. 3 Māori Land Court COVID-19 Court protocol as at 20 April 2020. 4 Māori Land Court COVID-19 Court protocol as at 12 May 2020.
S Overall, an average Māori land block has a size of 53.06ha and 114 owners.
Documents/Articles/Maori-Land-Court-Annual-Report-Matariki-2023-Matariki-2024.pdf (11 mb)
Section 455 of the Ngāi Tahu Claims Settlement Act 1998 provides the Māori Land Court with the jurisdiction to identify successors and successors’ interests in SILNA lands.
After 15 or so years as a corporate lawyer, you can imagine my surprise to have the opportunity to join the Māori Land Court. I had to think hard about what I could offer; would my experience be of value?
In his classic book Māori Land Tenure (1977) Sir Hugh Kawharu wrote that the system of Māori land tenure created by the Native Lands Act of 1865 was an ‘engine of destruction for any tribe’s tenure of land, anywhere’ (p 15).
Documents/Guides-Templates-Factsheets/MLC-150-years-of-the-Maori-Land-Court.pdf (11 mb)
Former land owners become shareholders in the Incorporation rather than owners in the land.
Documents/Guides-Templates-Factsheets/MLC-2017-03-03-RDS-Report.pdf (1.1 mb)
Thank you also for all of the hard work and the support that you have shown in organising this event, and also for the support that you have shown to both me and my family during my time in practice and throughout our time living here in Rotorua.
