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1. Research into the New Life Akoranga Programme of the Mahi Tahi Trust [pdf, 649 KB]

   ...research was that it focuses on capturing and reporting participants’ perceptions of the programme, namely, that it gives voice to participants’ thoughts, feelings and experience of the programme and the perceived benefits for them. A1.3 Research Design and Approach (summary) The research commenced in April 2000 with fieldwork completed in May 2002 and was conducted in three distinct stages. There were two components to stage one of the research. Firstly, a series of research activities...

2. Waitangi Tribunal - Report on the Māori Community Development Act Claim [pdf, 3.2 MB]

   ...a M o t u h a k e Report on the Māori Community Development Act Claim P r e - p u b l i c a t i o n V e r s i o n Downloaded from www.waitangitribunal.govt.nz Downloaded from www.waitangitribunal.govt.nz The cover design by Cliff Whiting invokes the signing of the treaty of Waitangi and the consequent interwoven development of Māori and Pākehā history in new Zealand as it continuously unfolds in a pattern not yet completely known national Library of n...

3. Waitangi Tribunal - District 11 Hawkes Bay [pdf, 4.8 MB]

   ...radiata, and some left as indigenous, dominate. In 1840, despite the claims ofW B Rhodes (see sec 2.6), all of this 2,500,000 acre area was owned, occupied, and utilised by Maori. By 1930, under 200,000 acres remained in Maori ownership. This report is designed to act as a general overview of the major ways in which this land was alienated from Maori. Its first task is to describe when the land was alienated. The second, to provide explanation of how and why the land was purchased, lease...

4. Waitangi Tribunal theme Q - Foreshore [pdf, 559 KB]

   ...22, 1988), Mangonui Sewerage (Wai 17, 1988), Ngai Tahu Sea Fisheries (Wai 27, 1992), and Te Whanganui-a-Orotu (Wai 55, 1995) reports are the main instances. Issues raised in these reports include marine pollution, damage to inshore fisheries, environmental impacts on shellfish beds, and the effects of reclamations and harbour developments. None of these reports, however, deal in any sustained way with the legal history of foreshore ownership. Coastal issues are also important in some...

5. Waitangi Tribunal - Te Ture Whenua pre-publication [pdf, 2.9 MB]

   ...lenders security, and thus made it usable in the colonial economy. The other was to give Māori land a form of title that facilitated its large- scale transfer to settlers or the Crown. While historians disagree as to whether indi- vidualised title was designed to achieve that second purpose, the effects were clear within at least 10 years of the passage of the first Act.14 As a Supreme Court judge put it in 1873, the legislation impacted on hapū like breaking the band holding a bundle of...

6. Independent Electoral Review Final Report [pdf, 11 MB]

   .................................................................................................................................................. 51 1. The Constitutional and Human Rights Context of Electoral Law ...................................... 53 2. The Overall Design of Our Electoral Laws ............................................................................... 67 Modernising electoral law ..........................................................................................

7. Rec-Recap-2022-Q4-FINAL.pdf [pdf, 931 KB]

   ...cliffs at the beach, and include details about the presence of lifeguards. The signs are posted adjacent to every vehicular and pedestrian beach accessway. Auckland Council advised that it consulted with Surf Lifesaving Northern Region about the design, size and location of the signs. V. The design template for the new signs is below. 10 VI. There is an Australian/New Zealand standard for water safety signs.1 The standard provides that selection and use of signs s...

8. Taueki v Procter - Horowhenua 11 Lake Block (2020) 415 Aotea MB 1 (415 AOT 1) [pdf, 720 KB]

   ...tracks or walkways, without consultation with the owners and without resource consent or authority from Heritage New Zealand Pouhere Taonga. Mr Taueki argued that the works were being carried out on land that is culturally, archaeologically and environmentally significant to the iwi, causing damage and distress. [24] Mr Taueki believed the purpose of the works was to pre-empt an application by the Horowhenua District Council (“HDC”) for resource consent to continue discharging L...

9. Identifying & responding to bias in the criminal justice system: a review of international & New Zealand research [pdf, 1.3 MB]

   ...simple solution to ethnic minority and indigenous over-representation. Existing research, however, broadly suggests that successful responses are likely to be those that: afford ethnic minority and/or indigenous people a central role in programme design, implementation and governance adopt a holistic approach, looking beyond the remit of the criminal justice system to address structural inequalities more broadly incorporate appropriate cultural components are appropriately...

10. [2015] NZEmpC 57 Q v Commissioner of Police [pdf, 719 KB]

    ...As I have found, that was not the case. It was open to the decision-makers to find that Mr Q took a step that was deliberately provocative when he presented Detective Senior Sergeant T’s property at the meeting in a manner that was apparently designed to embarrass. He realised at the time that it was having this effect yet persevered regardless. [135] Some reliance was placed on a suggestion that, because of the adverse comments made by Detective Senior Sergeant T and Detecti...