Rapua
Search

On Friday 29 November, the old Māori Land Court on Lowe Street Gisborne was closed, and the new court opened on Gladstone Road.

Located in:  Hui and court hearings News

This schedule does not include applications that have been set down for hearing, are before the Court for determination, have been determined by the Court and/or are awaiting release of any decision, determination or order of the Court.

Documents/Panui/October-2023-Notification-of-Applications-in-Office-of-Chief-Registrar-20230822.pdf (416 kb)

Publication of recordings in this manner “enables the public to view entire, unedited proceedings” and at the same time “enables the Court to retain control of the recordings”. It would be interesting to see the response if our Māori Land Court required the parties’ written submissions in upcoming cases to be uploaded to the Māori land Court website prior to hearings.

Located in:  Who we are Our judges Judges' corner articles

This schedule does not include applications that have been set down for hearing, are before the Court for determination, have been determined by the Court and/or are awaiting release of any decision, determination, or order of the Court.

Documents/Panui/September-2023-Notification-of-Applications-in-Office-of-Chief-Registrar-2023FINAL.pdf (423 kb)

I / We seek financial assistance from the Māori Land Court Special Aid Fund for the following purposes.

Documents/Forms/MLC-Form-53-Special-aid.pdf (189 kb)

Māori Land Court fees are increasing from 1 July 2025.

Located in:  Hui and court hearings News

Any owner or interested person may use this form to apply to the Court to call or direct the Registrar to call a meeting of assembled owners for any Māori Freehold land or General Land owned by Māori to consider 1 or more resolutions for those matters set out in section 172 of Te Ture Whenua Māori Act 1993 (attached as a schedule to this form) Office use: Application: ACCEPTED / REFUSED Dated: .................................................................

Documents/Forms/MLC-Form-32-Application-to-call-meeting.pdf (178 kb)

Alternatively, the applications can be posted to: Māori Land Court – Te Waipounamu Registry  CJESP Building, Level 1, 20 Lichfield Street Christchurch Central City, Christchurch 8011 All SILNA hearings are heard in the Te Waipounamu Māori Land Court, Christchurch.

Located in:  Who we are Our rules and legislation

The survey will close at midnight on Sunday 20 July 2025 . To access the Māori Land Court User Survey, please click the following link: Māori Land Court User Survey 2025 If you have any questions, please contact us by email at te.tiratu@justice.govt.nz

Located in:  Hui and court hearings News

You can visit one of our offices to view: current and historic ownership lists for whenua Māori minutes of hearings of Court and Registrar decisions current and historic memorial schedule information recording leases, occupations and other land uses orders made by the court or a Registrar – including: title orders (creating Māori land) trust orders (names of trustees and terms of trust) succession orders (names of successors to an estate) vesting orders (trans...

Located in:  The court record