Waitangi Tribunal - issue 69 of Te Manutukutuku [pdf, 2.5 MB]
...from the Court of Appeal’s Lands judgments of 1987 on challenges to the privatisation of state assets under the State-Owned Enterprises Act 1986. The Act included safeguards for Māori interests: ‘Nothing in this Act’, s 9 stated, ‘shall permit the Crown to act in a manner that is inconsistent with the principles of the Treaty of Waitangi’. The Court highlighted the importance of the opinions of the Waitangi Tribunal, and added its own considerable weight to the formulati...