From E-TANGATA magazine

by Prof. David Williams

Since the late 1980s, there’s been general acceptance of the idea that upholding the Treaty of Waitangi requires a set of extrapolated principles to resolve the problem of the English and Māori texts saying different things.

These principles were first defined by the Court of Appeal in 1987 when it considered the impact on Māori of transferring Crown assets to state-owned enterprises, in what was known as the “Lands” case.

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