The below tables provide a snapshot of information relating to the Māori Land Court caseload from June 2022 to May 2023. Figure [1] – Inflight case numbers by month and processing step (June 2022 to May 2023*) * Due to the transition to Pātaka Whenua, reporting data is only available for the period until 31 May 2023.
Documents/Articles/Maori-Land-Court-Annual-Report-Matariki-2022-Matariki-2023.pdf (11 mb)
The Act recognises that blocks of Māori land are generally owned by people connected to each other and to the land through kin groups, such as iwi7 and hapū8.
Documents/Guides-Templates-Factsheets/MOJ0217.3E-OCT21-Transferring-Maori-Land-Shares.pdf (78 kb)
This section could have been used for large Hawke’s Bay blocks such as Heretaunga (about 20,000 acres), but was not.
Documents/Guides-Templates-Factsheets/MLC-150-years-of-the-Maori-Land-Court.pdf (11 mb)
1 Notification of applications that remain outstanding in the office of the Chief Registrar, Wellington November 2025 TAKE NOTICE THAT the following schedule of applications, currently held in the Office of the Chief Registrar in Wellington, received up to the panui closing date of 10th of September 2025, are hereby notified, pursuant to rules 3.18, 5.3 and 8.2(3) of the Māori Land Court Rules 2011, as being outstanding and have yet to be determined or set down for...
If any other person subsequently becomes a party to the proceedings the lawyer appointed and engaged must, as soon as reasonably practicable, give an equivalent notice to the new party. 9 Taueki v Horowhenua 11 (Lake) Māori Reservation Trust – Horowhenua 11 (Lake) Block [2019] Māori Appellate Court MB 652 (2019 APPEAL 652) at [27].
Documents/Practice-notes/2023.10.17-MLC-Special-Aid-Practice-Note-FINAL.pdf (367 kb)
1 Notification of applications that remain outstanding in the office of the Chief Registrar, Wellington October 2025 TAKE NOTICE THAT the following schedule of applications, currently held in the Office of the Chief Registrar in Wellington, received up to the panui closing date of 13th of August 2025, are hereby notified, pursuant to rules 3.18, 5.3 and 8.2(3) of the Māori Land Court Rules 2011, as being outstanding and have yet to be determined or set down for inqu...
1 Notification of applications that remain outstanding in the office of the Chief Registrar, Wellington December 2025 TAKE NOTICE THAT the following schedule of applications, currently held in the Office of the Chief Registrar in Wellington, received up to the panui closing date of 8th of October 2025, are hereby notified, pursuant to rules 3.18, 5.3 and 8.2(3) of the Māori Land Court Rules 2011, as being outstanding and have yet to be determined or set down for inq...
TIME APPLICATION NO. SECTION APPLICANT SUBJECT SP1 11:45 AM AP-20250000012141 29/93 113/93 455/1998 Huhuti Phillips Maora Kirkpatrick also known as Maora Te Nahu - Succession to Hāwea/Wānaka Substitute land (being Section 2 of 5, Block XIV, Lower Wānaka Survey District) - South Island Landless Natives (SILNA) Block WĀ TĪNA – 1:30 PM SP2 2:30 PM AP-20250000009740 21/1994 67/93 Jennifer Hodson Chanel Starkey Mangamaunu Māori...
Documents/Panui/17.-Te-Waipounamu-6-November-2025.pdf (129 kb)
The blocks of land are no longer separate (refer to section 307 of Te Ture Whenua Māori Act 1993). 26.
Documents/Guides-Templates-Factsheets/MOJ0217.8E-SEP21-Maori-Incorporations-Factsheet.pdf (370 kb)
TIME APPLICATION NO. SECTION APPLICANT SUBJECT SP1 11:00 AM AP-20250000005701 338(5)/93, 338(12)/93, 338(14)(c)/93 Ohaki Papakāinga Māori Reservation trustees Tahorakuri A No 1 Sec 1 (Ohaki Papakainga) block and Ohaki Papakainga Māori Reservation - redefine the purpose for the Māori reservation (ordered at 154 Rotorua MB 265-268 on 8 March 1971) to include papakāinga
