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Steven Dodd - Kairēhita Matua
Ngāti Whakaue, Ngāti Pikiao, Ngāti Rangiwewehi Steve first began work in the Maori Affairs Department in July 1984 working Māori Trustee and then the Land Development division before becoming an Alienation Officer in 1989.
In the recent High Court decision of Ngāti Whātua Ōrākei Trust v Attorney-General [2022] NZHC 843,
there was considerable discussion of tikanga Māori in the context of who exercised mana whenua
where the following were found;
- Tikanga Māori is a source of broadly shared core values (tāhuhu) that may inform the
development of the law and in some contexts is law
Kāti ake ka huri ki te kaupapa, e hika ma, nōku te hōnore ki te tuku i tēnei pānuitanga motuhake. E te uri o Ngāti Rēhia, te uri o Ngāti Kurī tēnei uri o Ngā Puhi nui tonu piki mai rā ki te pae whakawā, whakaeke mai ki te Te Kooti Whenua Māori ki Te Roopu Whakamana i Te Tiriti, whakatau mai rā ki tō tūranga hōu!
Aotea
PĀNUI
He pānuitanga tēnei kia mohiotia ai ka tū Te Kooti
Whenua Māori ki te whakawa, ki te uiui hoki, i nga
tikanga o ngā tono a muri ake - Nau mai, haere mai
A Special Sitting
At Levin
Māori Land Court
Te Takeretanga o Kura-hau-pō
Community Centre & Library
10 Bath Street
Levin
Tuesday 19 September 2023
Judge A H C Warren
PANUI NO: TIME: APPLICATION NO: SECTION: APPLICANT: SUBJECT:
SSept19/1 1:00 PM AP-20230000031819 239/93 Clinto...
Pou hihiri Pou rarama Tēnā te pou Te pou herenga tangata Te pou herenga whenua Te pou ka toko Te pou ka hiki Te pou ka eke tū tārewa ki ngā rangi tāwhaowhao Ūtaina atu ngā kōrero nei Mā te pūreirei tōngakengake ki te whakahaumanu i te pou o taku whare kōrero Tōtoro te pūhina o te ata hāpara o te ata kura o te ata tū Ki ngā taiwhenua ki ngā papa kāinga ki te one e karapinepine tonu i a tātou Kia whakataukihia ‘Whatungarongaro te tangata, toitū te whenua’ Ko te whakahu tenei a Te Kooti W...
SECTION APPLICANT SUBJECT
SP6 10:00 AM AP-20240000013666 67/93
236/93
237/93
238/93
240/93
Tarina MacDonald,
Glen Skipper, and
Rangi Kipa
Ngāti Tawhirikura Hapū Charitable
Trust – Injunction against any person
in respect of any actual threatened
trespass or other injury to any Māori
land or Māori Reservation
(Respondents: Ngāti Tawhirikura
Hapū Charitable trustees Beverly
Gibson, Sam Williams, and Sharron
Wipiti)
The Court may convene to mak...
Taitokerau
PĀNUI
He pānuitanga tenei kia mohiotia ai ka tu Te Kooti
Whenua Māori ki te whakawa, ki te uiui hoki, i ngā
tikanga o ngā tono a muri ake - Nau mai, haere mai
A Judicial Conference
At Whangārei
(via Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/99314293400)
Māori Land Court Taitokerau
16 Rathbone Street, Whangārei
Monday 13 November 2023
Judge M P Armstrong
PĀNUI NO: TIME: APPLICATION NO: SECTION: APPLICANT: SUBJECT:
SP 4 10:00 AM AP-20230000028401
A20200013952
18(...
