Post by Kiwi Frontline on Mar 3, 2024 14:45:56 GMT 12
Mike Butler: TRIBUNAL’S WOBBLY HOUSE OF CARDS.
Forty years of Waitangi Tribunal decisions have been built on a “very wobbly” house of cards, according to Piers Seed in his new book Taonga and Contra Proferentem – thoughts on the Waitangi Tribunal Process.
With a Bachelor of Engineering in electronics, this is the second book in which Seed applies the disciplines of the hard sciences to what passes as history in New Zealand.
Two years ago, he used such analysis to debunk myths around the clash between government troops and insurgents at Rangiaowhia on February 21, 1864, in Hoani’s Last Stand.
Seed’s new book shows that the Waitangi Tribunal has built its empire on a word and a concept to create its wobbly house of cards.
The word is “taonga”, which originally meant “property procured by the spear”.
The concept is an old legal doctrine called “contra proferentem” used by the tribunal to claim that the Maori language “Te Tiriti” has precedence over the English “treaty” text.
This effectively denies the Crown any say in its interpretation which is “surely a very strange thing in an agreement between two parties”, Seed wrote.....
breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com/2024/03/mike-butler-tribunals-wobbly-house-of.html
Forty years of Waitangi Tribunal decisions have been built on a “very wobbly” house of cards, according to Piers Seed in his new book Taonga and Contra Proferentem – thoughts on the Waitangi Tribunal Process.
With a Bachelor of Engineering in electronics, this is the second book in which Seed applies the disciplines of the hard sciences to what passes as history in New Zealand.
Two years ago, he used such analysis to debunk myths around the clash between government troops and insurgents at Rangiaowhia on February 21, 1864, in Hoani’s Last Stand.
Seed’s new book shows that the Waitangi Tribunal has built its empire on a word and a concept to create its wobbly house of cards.
The word is “taonga”, which originally meant “property procured by the spear”.
The concept is an old legal doctrine called “contra proferentem” used by the tribunal to claim that the Maori language “Te Tiriti” has precedence over the English “treaty” text.
This effectively denies the Crown any say in its interpretation which is “surely a very strange thing in an agreement between two parties”, Seed wrote.....
breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com/2024/03/mike-butler-tribunals-wobbly-house-of.html