The Heretaunga block created a national scandal, as it was seen as an example of how a ‘land ring’ could acquire large areas of land to the detriment of small settlers.
Documents/Guides-Templates-Factsheets/MLC-150-years-of-the-Maori-Land-Court.pdf (11 mb)
Māori Commercial Aquaculture Claims Settlement Act 2004 The Māori Commercial Aquaculture Claims Settlement Act 2004 enables a Judge of the Māori Land Court to give advice about disputes regarding entitlements.
They will also be able to vote on whether they want to receive the land back as Māori or General land, and how that land will be held.
For Māori, good leadership depended upon how well those leaders responded to their people and how well they were able to protect them and their whenua (lands).
Documents/Judges-corner-articles/JWI-ACPECT-Presentation-2022.pdf (540 kb)
Nau mai, kuhu mai. Welcome to the year that was for the Māori Land Court.
Documents/Articles/Maori-Land-Court-Annual-Report-Matariki-2023-Matariki-2024.pdf (11 mb)
Block hereby agree to the partition of the said land as shown on the plan attached hereto.
Documents/Forms/MLC-Form-39-Application-for-a-partition.pdf (194 kb)
After 15 or so years as a corporate lawyer, you can imagine my surprise to have the opportunity to join the Māori Land Court.
To support how the Māori Land Court functions, judges will be able to appoint experts in tikanga Māori and whakapapa as additional members of the Court, and they can hold judicial settlement conferences to assist parties to a dispute to settle a claim or issue.
The Māori Land Court is conducting an inquiry to establish the successors to SILNA lands pursuant to Section 29, Te Ture Whenua Māori Act 1993 in accordance with an application filled by the Minister of Māori Affairs, currently under application A20180009373.
Documents/SILNA/S113-29-93-Appln-to-Determine-Successors-for-SILNA-Lands-Hawea-Wanaka.pdf (407 kb)
The Māori incorporation may ask the Court to declare additional land to be corpus 11 land instead of investment land.
Documents/Guides-Templates-Factsheets/MLC-incorporations-english.pdf (856 kb)
