During the holiday period, Māori Land Court offices will be closed from 3pm, Wednesday 24 December 2025 and will reopen 10am, Monday 5 January 2026.
A national service for only urgent injunction applications is available Monday 29, Tuesday 30 and Wednesday 31 December. More details can be found here.
Due to limited access to the building, the Auckland Information Office is available by appointment only. Please contact us by email at mlctamakimakaurau@justice.govt.nz
You can apply if you are:
• the owner of the Māori land shares to
be transferred
• the person who will receive the Māori
land shares
• a trustee for either of the people
mentioned above.
The applicant, or counsel for the applicant,
must sign the application for the vesting order.
TIME APPLICATION NO. SECTION APPLICANT SUBJECT
SP3 12:40 PM AP-20240000009524
239/93 Jeremy
Kenneth
Williams,
(represented
by Counsel:
Rox Soriano,
Style Toleafoa
& Dr Bryan
Gilling)
He whakarerekētanga ki ngā
tarahitī mō Estate and Trust for
Kenneth Sydney Williams -
Aorangi Maunga No. 1
Replace Elizabeth Josephine
Williams and John William Stuart
Williams with Jeremy Kenneth
Williams, Deborah Mary Williams and
Natalie Margot W...
Guides to help make an enquiry or application
Te tuku tono
Submitting an application
Read the Submitting an application guide to learn how to make an application in Pātaka Whenua.
Tākitimu
PĀNUI
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
A Special Sitting
At Hastings
Hastings District Court, 106 Eastbourne
Street West, Hastings
Tuesday 10 October 2023
Judge D H Stone
PANUI NO: TIME: APPLICATION NO: SECTION: APPLICANT: SUBJECT:
SP4 11:45AM AP-20230000021006 244/93 Robert Cottrell Te Awahohonu Forest Trust -
V...
Waiariki
PĀNUI
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
A Special Sitting
At Ōpōtiki
Māori Land Court, 1143 Haupapa
Street, Hauora House, Rotorua
Wednesday 6 September 2023
Judge T M Wara Presiding
PANUI NO: TIME: APPLICATION NO: SECTION: APPLICANT: SUBJECT:
SSep3/1 11:00 AM AP-20230000021566 113/93,
118/93
Thompson
Quinton Tapsell
Wi...
Waiariki
PĀNUI
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
A Special Sitting
At Ōpōtiki
Ministry of Justice, District Court, 117
Church Street, Ōpōtiki
Tuesday 5 September 2023
Judge T M Wara Presiding
PANUI NO: TIME: APPLICATION NO: SECTION: APPLICANT: SUBJECT:
SSep1/1 10:20 AM AP-20230000023532 158/93,
164/93
Anthony
Selwyn
Insley
Aw...
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
SP 6 10:00 AM AP-20250000011912 58/93 Sara Terehia
Hona
Appeal 2025/21 - He whakarerekētanga
ki ngā tarahitī mō Oriwa Hereaka
Whānau Trust – Remove Sara Terehia
Hona as responsible trustee of the
Oriwa Hereaka Whānau Trust and an
order dismissing a strike out application
made at 347 Waiariki MB 65-78 on 15
Hepetema 2025 – Notice of Appeal
(Respondents: Anthony James Marino,
Catherine Te Waaka, David Herewini,
Geoffre...