Waitangi Tribunal - He Whiritaunoka (Whanganui) chapter 28 [pdf, 857 KB]
...incorrectly. Māori who advocated alternatives envisaged a system in which they could adjudicate title themselves. excluding Māori from the formal aspects of the court’s process was a more serious flaw of the system because there was no right of appeal from the court’s decisions before 1894. Theoretically, rehearings were available, but in practice the decision to grant them was highly dis cretionary, and occurred rarely. The fact that it took the Crown three decades from the tim...