Waitangi Tribunal
Wai 2358

CONCERNING the Treaty of Waltangi Act 1975
AND the National Fresh Water and Geothermal Resources Inquiry

MEMORANDUM-DIRECTIONS OF THE TRIBUNAL

Introduction

1. This memorandum-directions addresses the request by the claimants that the Tribunal make an interim recommendation that the Crown not commence the share float of any of the four Mixed Ownership Model companies named in their claim until it has received the Tribunal’s report and recommendations for stage one of this inquiry.

2. This request was initially made by the claimants as a part of their application for urgency. in our direction granting urgency we declined to make any interim recommendation to the Crown at that stage of proceedings (Wai 2358, #2.5.13).

3. The claimants renewed their request for an interim recommendation at the judicial conference of 24 April 2012, requesting that an interim hearing be convened in June 2012 to hear the parties on whether their case example evidence had established a prima facie case, and consequently whether an interim recommendation should be made that the Crown delay any sale of shares in the Mixed Ownership Model companies until the Tribunal has fully heard the claim and issued its report and recommendations for the Crown to consider (Wai 2358, #3.1.95).

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