{"id":6903,"date":"2023-08-02T05:12:00","date_gmt":"2023-08-01T17:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=6903"},"modified":"2023-08-02T05:12:00","modified_gmt":"2023-08-01T17:12:00","slug":"nelson-tenths-maori-land-case-set-to-go-back-to-high-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=6903","title":{"rendered":"Nelson Tenths M\u0101ori land case set to go back to High Court"},"content":{"rendered":"

The case of the Nelson Tenths, one of the largest litigations against the Crown in New Zealand’s history, is set to go back to the High Court this month.<\/p>\n

In 1839 M\u0101ori landowners around Nelson sold 151,000 acres of land to the New Zealand Company on the condition that 10 percent of their land would be reserved for M\u0101ori in perpetuity.<\/p>\n

That agreement was never upheld. Rather than setting aside 15,100 acres, the Crown reserved less than 3000 acres.<\/p>\n

The landowners, now represented by the Wakat\u016b Incorporation, have been battling to have that land returned.<\/p>\n

After the former National government refused to consider their claim at the Waitangi Tribunal, the claimants instead took a case to the High Court, as a private law breach of trust case.<\/p>\n

The government fought the case all the way to the\u00a0Supreme Court<\/a>, which in 2017 found in favour of the owners of the Nelson Tenths.<\/p>\n

Since then, attempts at commencing out of court negotiations with the Crown, have not been successful.<\/p>\n

This month, the case will go back to the High Court to determine the extent of the Crown’s breaches, led by kaumatua Rore Stafford, on behalf of the customary landowners.<\/p>\n

RNZ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The case of the Nelson Tenths, one of the largest litigations against the Crown in New Zealand’s history, is set to go back to the High Court this month. In 1839 M\u0101ori landowners around Nelson sold 151,000 acres of land to the New Zealand Company on the condition that 10 percent of their land would […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":6904,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[222,174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-nz-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6903"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6905,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6903\/revisions\/6905"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}