Post by Kiwi Frontline on Jul 25, 2023 2:55:00 GMT 12
HISTORIC PROPERTY CASE COULD HAVE WIDE RIPPLES
Kerensa Johnston is due to be heading to court shortly to battle for the country's oldest property claim – the Nelson Tenths – but she’d rather the Crown came to the table.
The Nelson Tenths reserves refer to the 10% of land, some 15,100 acres, that the New Zealand Company agreed to reserve in the Nelson region for the Māori customary landowners in the 1840s, an agreement that was never upheld.
In addition, their papakāinga (homes and villages), wāhi tapu (sacred areas) and cultivation lands were to be excluded from settlement.
But instead, less than 3,000 acres were reserved and protected.
In 2017, the Supreme Court ruled that the Crown had a legal duty to reserve the customary Tenths, and directed the parties back to the High Court to determine the extent of the Crown’s breaches, remedies and any Crown defences....
www.stuff.co.nz/nelson-mail/132561542/historic-property-case-could-have-wide-ripples
Kerensa Johnston is due to be heading to court shortly to battle for the country's oldest property claim – the Nelson Tenths – but she’d rather the Crown came to the table.
The Nelson Tenths reserves refer to the 10% of land, some 15,100 acres, that the New Zealand Company agreed to reserve in the Nelson region for the Māori customary landowners in the 1840s, an agreement that was never upheld.
In addition, their papakāinga (homes and villages), wāhi tapu (sacred areas) and cultivation lands were to be excluded from settlement.
But instead, less than 3,000 acres were reserved and protected.
In 2017, the Supreme Court ruled that the Crown had a legal duty to reserve the customary Tenths, and directed the parties back to the High Court to determine the extent of the Crown’s breaches, remedies and any Crown defences....
www.stuff.co.nz/nelson-mail/132561542/historic-property-case-could-have-wide-ripples