Haronga v Waitangi Tribunal - [2012] 2 NZLR 53

Māori and Māori land — Waitangi Tribunal — Claim for resumption of Crown forest land — Application for urgent remedies hearing — Land covered by separate wider claim under negotiation — Refusal of urgent remedies hearing effectively caused claim to be subsumed in wider claim — Whether Tribunal entitled to refuse urgent remedies hearing — Whether relevant factors taken into account — Observation on power to defer inquiry — Treaty of Waitangi Act 1975, ss 6, 7 and 8HB(1).