Maruera v Te Runanga o Ngāti Maru (Taranaki) Trust (2017) 378 Aotea MB 118 (378 AOT 118) [pdf, 389 KB]
...polls or hui convened for tribal purposes. Mr McErlane, for the Rūnanga, opposes the application and says that it is the Crown who have recognised the mandate of his client to act as agent for a post settlement governance entity that may be formed at some time in the future with the consent of the iwi. The purpose of that entity, he says, will then be to enter into a Deed of Settlement with the Crown to resolve all the tribe’s historical claims, if the iwi ratifies any such set...