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I would also like to take the opportunity at this point to acknowledge our Acting Chief Judge who sits by my side today, over these past months and in fact, years, when an issue has arisen, a question, a complication, it has been our ACJ that has turned to offer me support and guidance, she has continued to advocate for the use of te reo Māori within her Courts – and so to our Acting Chief Judge, a heroine in my eyes, one who is skilled in patient observation, Judge Fox, I thank you. To...
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Registrar
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He pānuitanga tēnei kia mōhiotia ai ka tū Te Kooti Pīra
Māori ki te whakawā , ki te uiui hoki, i ngā tikanga o ngā
tono a muri ake - Nau mai, haere mai
Māori Appellate Court Sitting
at Aotea
Māori Land Court
Ingestre Chambers
74 Ingestre Street
Whanganui
Tuesday 7 November 2023
Māori Appellate Court Coram
Chief Judge C L Fox (presiding)
Judge M P Armstrong
Judge D H Stone
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Office of the
Chief Registrar
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He pānuitanga tēnei kia mōhiotia ai ka tū Te Kooti
Whenua Māori ki te whakawā, ki te uiui hoki, i ngā
tikanga o ngā tono a muri ake - Nau mai, haere mai
Chief Judge application
To be heard at Whanganui
Māori Land Court,
Ingestre Chambers,
74 Ingestre St...
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Office Office of the Chief Registrar / Māori Appellate Court
Address Level 7, Fujitsu Tower, 141 The Terrace, Wellington 6011
Mailing address DX Box SX11203, Wellington
Phone 04 914 3102
Email mlc.chief-registrars.office@justice.govt.nz
Office hours Monday to Friday, 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM
(Closed on Public Holidays)
He pānuitanga tēnei kia mōhiotia ai ka tū Te Kooti Pīra
Māori ki te whakawā, ki te uiui hoki, i ngā t...
SECTION APPLICANT SUBJECT
SP8 10:30 AM AP-20240000014080 240/93 Shelly
Puohotaua
He whakarerekētanga ki ngā
tarahitī mō Rakato B Trust
Reduce the trustees of Rakato B
Trust by removing Taara Green,
David Puohotaua, Mary Whanarere,
Matariki Cribb-Fox, and Kim
Ranginui
Judicial Conference.
SECTION APPLICANT SUBJECT
SP2 4:00 PM AP-20250000015516 151/93 Nigel Hugh Perderson,
Helen Frances
Pedersen and Michael
Anthony Knobloch
Lot 29 Deposited Plan 15949 -
Confirmation of an alienation by
way of sale to James Lwellyn
Brennan and Helen Elizabeth
Brennan
SECTION APPLICANT SUBJECT
SP13 3:00 PM AP-20240000007537 239/93,
338(7)/93
Kristen Miriam
Pari
He whakarerekētanga ki ngā
tarahitī mō Kaingapipi 9A1 (Mokau
Kohunui Pā)
Replace Michael Puke James &
Raymond Kopereihana Coffin with
Fallyn Rebecca Flavell, Tukemata
Rauputu, Elizabeth Kuramonehu
Simon, Hana Yerkovich, Hannah
Tonowai Bodger-Kearns & Myra
Maikera Hiriaki as responsible
trustees of the Kaingapipi 9A1
(Mokau Kohunui Pā).
SECTION APPLICANT SUBJECT
SP1 10:00 AM AP-20240000006911 240/93 Daphne Nepata Lot 28B No 18A No 2 Section 2
Parish of Rangitaiki, Rangitaiki
Parish 28B 2D 2B 2D and Sub B2
Lot 1 Sec 3 Parish of Rangitaiki -
Ngairo Trust - Removal of Michael
Haihua Simon as responsible trustee
SP2 10:00 AM AP-20240000011092 231/93 Akuhata
Mathew
Maunsell
He arotakenga i te Ngairo Trust
Review of the Ngairo Trust
SP3 10:00 AM AP-20250000009820 239/93 Daphne Nepata He whakarerekētanga ki...
SECTION APPLICANT SUBJECT
SP11 2:00 PM AP-20250000009419 239/93
338(7)/93
240/93
Arleen McLaren He whakarerekētanga ki ngā tarahitī
mō Te Aroha Block IX Sec 31C 4A and
Te Aroha Block IX Section 31D3A
reservation (Tui Pā Marae)
Replace Ta'ako Piaso with Tania
McCaskill, Allen Wickliffe and Michael
Wickliffe as trustees of Te Aroha Block IX
Sec 31C 4A and Te Aroha Block IX
Section 31D3A reservation (Tui Pā
Marae), Removal of Shelley Turner and
Matiu Williams...
