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The government will wait for the Supreme Court to rule on the Maori Council appeal against the partial privatisation of state-owned electricity company MightyRiverPower, even though it needed a decision by today to meet its own sales timetable. Prime Minister John Key told his post-Cabinet press conference that the Cabinet could have passed an Order in Council today to proceed …

Chief Justice Sian Elias has floated the prospect of the Supreme Court restraining the government to selling no more than 25 percent of state-owned power companies while it sorts out a long term solution to Maori claims to freshwater rights under the Treaty of Waitangi. Her comments came at the end of the first morning of two days’ scheduled hearings …

New Zealand’s highest court has begun hearing the final stage in a challenge by Maori to require settlement of Treaty of Waitangi claims to freshwater before any partial privatisation of state-owned power companies goes ahead. buy online essays Colin Carruthers QC opened submissions for the New Zealand Maori Council before a full five judge bench of the Supreme Court, in …

The New Zealand Maori Council has been granted leave to appeal a High Court ruling dismissing its application for a review of Cabinet decisions relating to the sale of up to 49 percent of MightyRiverPower. In the Supreme Court today, Justices Sian Elias, John McGrath, William Young, Robert Chambers and Susan Glazebrook granted the council leave to appeal direct to …