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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 Whanganui
Māori Land Court, 74 Ingestre Street, Whanganui 4500
Join Via Zoom
Meeting ID: 829 6731 0392
Monday 31 March – 2 April 2025
(Over the course of 3 days)
Judge A M Thomas Presiding
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SECTION APPLICANT SUBJECT
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238/93
240/93
Sharon Wipiti,
Sam Williams,
Beverly Gibson
Ngāti Tawhirikura Hapū Charitable
Trust - Enforcement of obligations of
trust and Removal of Glen Skipper,
Rangi Kipa and Tarina MacDonald
as trustees
I also just want to acknowledge the very tragic and sudden loss of Rawiri Rangitauira earlier this week. Of course, Rawiri was the founding partner of our firm, Rangitauira & Co, it was he and Annette Sykes who first employed me as a solicitor when I returned from London, and he was very much a mentor and a leader for me during my early years in practice.
I am the 114th Judge of the Maori Land Court. But, of course, I am not the first graduate from this university to be appointed to the Maori Land Court bench.
The question is whether the mediation process will allow for mediators to have these agreements signed by the parties, to provide extra protections to them above those provided under the Act. That will of course depend on how the mediator appointments are managed.