Waitangi Tribunal - East Coast Settlement Report [pdf, 1.1 MB]
...settlement with TRONP as requested by the claimants. We concluded that the potential prejudice of delaying such a significant settlement would outweigh any possible prejudice to the claimants from having their claims set- tled without their specific consent. We were also not convinced that the claimants commanded significant support compared with the support demonstrated by TRONP. We were mindful of the fact that both the Crown and TRONP have suggested ways in which at least some of the cl...