Post by Kiwi Frontline on Mar 31, 2024 8:18:57 GMT 12
Roger Childs: A LAW UNTO ITSELF – THE WAITANGI TRIBUNAL.
Piers Seed looks at whether taonga and contra preferentem (a legal term that can mean in ambiguous contract or treaty situations, decisions should favour the party which is on the receiving end) have been used correctly and ethically. He outlines a strong case to support the proposition that many “important Tribunal decisions (have) been based on a very wobbly house of cards.”
A different kettle of fish
In his first book Seed tackled the controversial claims that women, children and older men of the south Waikato town of Rangiaowhia were slaughtered in February 1864. Using all the known eye-witness accounts, both Maori and non-Maori, he emphatically dispels the myth of atrocities being committed by General Cameron’s forces.
The book clearly demonstrated his skills in analysis and using a comprehensive range of evidence, however in Taonga and Contra Proferentem his focus is not on specific historical events, but on the process by which the Waitangi Tribunal has been making decisions resulting in hundreds of millions of tax-payers dollars being paid out to Maori groups.
By redefining the word taonga to mean “treasure” the Tribunal opened the flood gates to allow claimants to apply the word to “mauri (life force), intellectual property, navigational aids, radio spectrums, languages, ideas, thoughts, rivers or mountains, or indeed anything abstract or spiritual.”.....
breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com/2024/03/roger-childs-law-unto-itself-waitangi.html
Piers Seed looks at whether taonga and contra preferentem (a legal term that can mean in ambiguous contract or treaty situations, decisions should favour the party which is on the receiving end) have been used correctly and ethically. He outlines a strong case to support the proposition that many “important Tribunal decisions (have) been based on a very wobbly house of cards.”
A different kettle of fish
In his first book Seed tackled the controversial claims that women, children and older men of the south Waikato town of Rangiaowhia were slaughtered in February 1864. Using all the known eye-witness accounts, both Maori and non-Maori, he emphatically dispels the myth of atrocities being committed by General Cameron’s forces.
The book clearly demonstrated his skills in analysis and using a comprehensive range of evidence, however in Taonga and Contra Proferentem his focus is not on specific historical events, but on the process by which the Waitangi Tribunal has been making decisions resulting in hundreds of millions of tax-payers dollars being paid out to Maori groups.
By redefining the word taonga to mean “treasure” the Tribunal opened the flood gates to allow claimants to apply the word to “mauri (life force), intellectual property, navigational aids, radio spectrums, languages, ideas, thoughts, rivers or mountains, or indeed anything abstract or spiritual.”.....
breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com/2024/03/roger-childs-law-unto-itself-waitangi.html
