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Chair
Roimata Smail, Barrister, Roimata Smail Ltd
Waitangi Tribunal – Recent reports in response to government policy
- A survey of recent urgent inquiries and reports responding to Coalition government policies
- Legal and practical issues arising
- Is the role of the Tribunal changing?
Presented by Tom Bennion, Barrister, Bennion Law
Learning Objectives:
- Understand the key themes in recent Waitangi Tribunal urgent inquiries and reports
- Examine how current government policies are influencing the Tribunal’s role and legal responses
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".
Thomas Bennion, Barrister, Bennion Law
Tom runs a boutique law firm specialising in public, Treaty and environmental law. He has been a practitioner since 1995 and appears regularly before the Waitangi Tribunal. He was its legal officer in the 1980s. He was involved in several of the recent urgent inquiries. He was a part-time lecturer at Victoria University for 13 years and founded the Māori Law Review in 1994 (now published out of the Victoria University of Wellington Law School).
