Most follow this general order when working through the online portal submission: • Introduction • Applicant Details • Application Details • Hearing Schedule (if relevant or other application specific section) • Upload Documents • Application Summary • Payment • Confirmation At the top of the screen is a progress bar.
How-do-I-user-guides/Submitting-an-application-v1-6.pdf (2.2 mb)
In 2005 the Government provided over $30 million over a five year period to fund the Māori Freehold Land Project in a joint venture between the Māori Land Court, LINZ, the Ministry of Justice and TPK to ensure the registration of all Māori freehold land titles and orders with LINZ. This project was completed in March 2010.
SECTION APPLICANT SUBJECT SP13 11:45 AM AP-20240000014210 19/93 18(1)(a)/93 18(1)(b)/93 Christian Martin Webber Motungarara A1B - Injunction against any person in respect of any actual threatened trespass of other injury to any Māori land or Māori Reservation (Respondents: Martin Webber and Webber Whānau Trustees)
Our key purpose is to promote the retention of Māori land in Māori hands, and to support landowners to use, occupy and develop their whenua for the benefit of all landowners, and their whānau and hapū. As a court of record, we are responsible for the accurate documentation of the succession and management of Māori land.
SECTION APPLICANT SUBJECT SP 9 11:30 AM AP-20250000008210 19/93 Tai Oterangi (Lucia) Mathews Whaanga 1D1B2 – Injunction against any person in respect of any actual threatened trespass or other injury to any Māori land or Māori Reservation Respondents: Hemi Family/LOFA Trustee Limited SP 10 11:30 AM AP-20250000008219 19/93 Tai Oterangi (Lucia) Mathews Whaanga 1D1B2 – Injunction against any person in respect of any actual threatened trespass or other injury to any Māori...
Documents/Panui/6.-Waikato-Maniapoto-7-August-2025.pdf (122 kb)
Chief Judge Fox (Ngāti Porou, Rongowhakaata, Te Whānau a Apanui) is the 17th Chief Judge of the Māori Land Court, and the first wahine Māori to hold the role.
Documents/Articles/23-07-20-Media-Statement-Chief-Maori-Land-Court-Judge-appointment.pdf (400 kb)
For the Māori Land Court, our focus is on being able to progress the successions as quickly as we can in order to update the lists of successors so that meetings of successors can be called.
“Pātaka Whenua also enables a connectedness that has not existed before – whānau living in across the ditch and further afield will have the same access to the court record, a taonga tuku iho, as those who are able to visit us in person today.”
Information, resources and links have been arranged to make it easier for you to find as you begin or continue your whenua and whānau journey. The website is also the gateway to our online portal Pātaka Whenua.
Chief Judge Fox is a descendent of Ngāti Porou and Rongowhakaata, with ties to Te Whānau a Apanui. She is the fifth judge to be appointed as Chairperson of the Waitangi Tribunal, following Chief Judge Kenneth Gillanders Scott, Tā Justice Taihakurei Durie, Tā Justice Joe Williams and Chief Judge Wilson Isaac.
