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Chair
Roimata Smail, Barrister, Roimata Smail Ltd
Te Ture Whenua Māori Act and Update on Māori Land Cases
- Update on recent precedent/notable cases in relation to Māori Land
- Partition and Occupation Orders
- Injunctions and removal of trustees
- Governance matters
Presented by Paula Wilson, Associate, Henderson Reeves
Learning Objectives:
- Review recent case law developments under Te Ture Whenua Māori Act
- Understand legal processes relating to occupation orders, injunctions, and governance of Māori land
Presenters
Roimata Smail, Barrister, Roimata Sail Ltd
Roimata Smail (Ngāti Maniapoto, Tainui, Ngāti Kotimana, Ngāti Ingarangi) has worked for two decades as a human rights and public law barrister specialising in discrimination against Māori. She has represented iwi, hapū, whānau, urban Māori organisations and Māori owned and governed health and social service providers in the Courts and Waitangi Tribunal. She has also advised on settlement negotiations with the Crown involving the return of ancestral land and acting in litigation and negotiations with the Crown under the Foreshore and Seabed Act 2004 and the Marine and Coastal Area (Takutai Moana) Act 2011. Roimata is also a Treaty educator who has developed experiential workshops on Te Tiriti and the Wai Ako educational website for schools. This year she published a best selling book "Understanding Te Tiriti A Handbook of Basic Facts about Te Tiriti o Waitangi".
Paula Wilson, Associate, Henderson Reeves
Of Ngāti Awa, Ngāti Pakeha and Ngāti Whakaue descent Paula is based at Henderson Reeves in Whangārei. She specialises in Māori Land Law. Prior to joining the Bar in 2017, Paula worked for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (Wellington/Tokyo), the Department of Conservation (Wellington/Whangārei) and Te Mana Motuhake a Rohe o Whangārei (the Whangārei Hapū Claims Collective) in the Waitangi Tribunal Te Paparahi o Te Raki (WAI 1040) hearings.
