15 Jul 2016
NATIONAL URBAN MĀORI AUTHORITY & OR v TE OHU KAI MOANA TRUSTEE LTD & ORS [2016] NZHC 1600
- Citation
- [2016] NZHC 1600
- Court
- High Court
Section 88(2) of the Māori Fisheries Act 2004 must be read to require that each director of Te Putea Whakatupu Trustee Limited individually have knowledge of and be able to represent the interests of Māori who reside in urban areas; additionally, TOKM and the iwi working group failed to give proper regard to the statutory purposes of Te Putea Trust and did not provide an adequate, specific opportunity for urban Māori (and NUMA in particular) to be heard during the Review consideration, but the Court declined to quash the general meeting resolutions and instead made a declaration and ordered c…