Post by Kiwi Frontline on Apr 9, 2016 17:33:51 GMT 12
WATER, THE RULE OF LAW, AND THE TREATY
The political reality however is that the debate about Maori rights to special treatment is a moving target. The latest foray in the Supreme Court was in 2014 in the litigation surrounding the privatization of part of the assets of some of the Crown held power Companies. It is an unsatisfactory decision because the whole process was rushed to allow the Government to make good an election promise. Various Maori interests challenged the Government’s right to sell shares in the companies to the public for, among other reasons, to do so would be in breach of the “principles” of the Treaty. An order was sought preventing the sale until the publication of the Waitangi Tribunal’s final report on more general Maori claims to fresh water……
Read Judge Anthony Willy's full NZCPR guest commentary here > www.nzcpr.com/water-the-rule-of-law-and-the-treaty/
The political reality however is that the debate about Maori rights to special treatment is a moving target. The latest foray in the Supreme Court was in 2014 in the litigation surrounding the privatization of part of the assets of some of the Crown held power Companies. It is an unsatisfactory decision because the whole process was rushed to allow the Government to make good an election promise. Various Maori interests challenged the Government’s right to sell shares in the companies to the public for, among other reasons, to do so would be in breach of the “principles” of the Treaty. An order was sought preventing the sale until the publication of the Waitangi Tribunal’s final report on more general Maori claims to fresh water……
Read Judge Anthony Willy's full NZCPR guest commentary here > www.nzcpr.com/water-the-rule-of-law-and-the-treaty/