TAITOKERAU PĀNUI Contact Details Office Te Taitokerau Address 16 Rathbone Street Mailing address DX Box AX10086, Whangārei Phone 09 948 9940 Email mlctaitokerau@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 Whenua Māori ki te whakawā, ki te uiui hoki, i ngā tikanga o ngā tono a muri ake - Nau mai, haere mai Special Court Sitting The following speci...
Rule 5.11(2)(b) of the Māori Land Court Rules 2011 states that a report must be produced and made available to the public of all applications filed in the Māori Land Court that are six months or older and where a final decision has not yet been made on that application.
Chief Judge Fox says: “This is an opportunity for the Court to update Māori landowners, and the public of Aotearoa, on the ongoing work of our Court.
Our kaimahi can answer pātai and provide printed application forms, ownership lists, and publicly available court records. For general enquiries, you don't need an appointment.
On this page Records available for viewing Making copies of the court record Records available for viewing Most of the record is available to the public for viewing in hard copy. Information about whenua is generally held by the district office that is located closest to that land block.
To enable this to occur, a standard on indexing was set, and between 2001 and 2002, the court captured the majority of its historical minutes which are now available to court staff and members of the public at any court office. This standard syntax style is used by the Māori Land Court to locate its historical minute books.
Documents/Guides-Templates-Factsheets/MLC-2017-Minute-Book-Abbreviations.pdf (470 kb)
Only applications and sittings that were confirmed at the time of this publication are listed. For more information, please contact your local Māori Land Court office.
Documents/Panui/May-2026-National-Panui-Maori-Land-Court.pdf (2.8 mb)
Only applications and sittings that were confirmed at the time of this publication are listed. For more information, please contact your local Mäori Land Court office.
Yet to date the report has not been the subject of any scrutiny of note in the public arena. Although Māori bodies and legal commentators did engage with the review process itself, and there was a modest level of media interest in the report when it was first released, I am not aware of any in-depth analysis of the report since its release.
Documents/Judges-corner-articles/MLC-2014-Jun-Judges-Corner-Ambler-J.pdf (191 kb)
No record of these conversations will be publicly available on the Māori Land Court record.
