Is that assumption correct?
The term Partnership was first used in the context of the
Treaty in the Court of Appeal case (New Zealand Maori Council v
Attorney-General [1987] 1 NZLR 641) in what is referred to as the Lands Case in
1987. In particular the obiter dicta (not the ratio decidendi) in the judgment
of Justice Robin Cooke who was the President of the Court of Appeal at that
time.
Since the publication of the He Puapua report and its eventual public release, a great deal of debate about the report’s expressed goal of the division of New Zealand into two separate sovereign states has ensued.
