Hohepa v Banks - Waima C30A [2019] Māori Appellate Court MB 629 (2019 APPEAL 629) [pdf, 442 KB]
...rates. Eruini passed on in 1989. Hiwi Hohepa returned to the block in 2009 to spend the rest of his years there. There was one problem. Someone else was already living there. [2] That was because in 2002 the trustees of the Trust granted a licence to occupy the block to Pihema and Hiria Hohepa on the mistaken belief that they owned the block. They warranted to Pihema, Hiria and third-party lenders, that they owned it. Pihema and Hiria built their home on the block, and their d...