This speech will be about my role as a Judge of the Māori Land Court. However, because I became a Judge only a matter of weeks ago, I do not yet have many stories to share with you about my new job.
After 15 or so years as a corporate lawyer, you can imagine my surprise to have the opportunity to join the Māori Land Court.
Land interests remained in the name of my grandfather and my great-grandmother.
To my Māori language, if I am to be completely honest, it was not only my law degree or the experiences I gained in my legal career that led me here today, it was because of you that I now have a position amongst the Māori Land Court judiciary.
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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).
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Therefore in this article I provide my evaluation of the report as a Judge of the Māori Land Court.
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The land marked ‘accretion’ shows the newly formed land.
