Cranstone - Kauangaroa No 2 (2017) 366 Aotea MB 250 (366 AOT 250) [pdf, 318 KB]
...the Act. The fact that the Court can lay out roadways over customary land suggests the legislature intended that the Court have the ability to lay out roadways over all types of land including Māori reservations. [77] We see no reason why a private roadway order could not be laid out over a Māori reservation. …. [78] We would add by way of observation that because of their special status it would only be in the rarest of cases that the Court would be likely to lay out a r...