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By David V. Williams

ISBN-10: 186940484X

ISBN-13: 9781869404840

David V. Williams takes a clean examine the infamous Wi Parata case - the protagonists, the origins of the dispute, the years of criminal from side to side - affording new insights into either Maori-Pakeha relatives within the 19th century and the criminal place of the Treaty of Waitangi. In 1877, the recent Zealand preferrred courtroom made up our minds a case, Wi Parata v Bishop of Wellington, that targeted at the possession and use of the Whitireia Block, close to Porirua. Ngati Toa had given this land to the Anglican Church for a faculty that used to be by no means outfitted. during refusing to inquire into the possession of the block, the judges disregarded the relevance of the Treaty of Waitangi: 'So a long way certainly as that tool alleged to cede the sovereignty - a question with which we aren't without delay involved - it has to be considered as an easy nullity.' during the last twenty-five years, judges, legal professionals and commentators have castigated this 'simple nullity' view of the Treaty. The 'infamous' case has been visible as symbolic of the forget of Maori rights via settlers, executive and the legislation in New Zealand. The real heritage to the Wi Parata case, Williams argues, tells us a lot approximately nineteenth-century Maori performing as they idea top for his or her humans and approximately debates in Pakeha jurisprudence over the popularity or rejection of familiar Maori rights. at the back of the obvious dismissal of the Treaty as a 'simple nullity' lay deep arguments in regards to the position of Maori and Pakeha in Aotearoa New Zealand. these arguments are as appropriate now as they have been then

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