Abstract:
Summarises the New Zealand Supreme Court decision in Haronga v Waitangi Tribunal on whether the Waitangi Tribunal erred in refusing to grant the application for an urgent remedies hearing made by the Mangatu Incorporation, which was representing a group of 5000 stakeholders in a Maori customary land rights claim, which opposed a proposed settlement that would offer redress to a wider tribal group of some 15,000 persons rather than to the Incorporation. Considers if the Tribunal was obliged to rule on whether it should make a binding recommendation order in favour of the Incorporation.