“The recognition of tikanga strengthens the rule of law. By contrast, rhetoric from the executive that disparages judicial engagement with tikanga undermines the separation of powers at the core of our constitutional order.” — Natalie Coates and Tai Ahu, Te Hunga Rōia Māori.
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Māori tikanga “provides a different way of thinking about free speech than simply an individual right. Rather, it suggests a focus on the obligations to the community that are always inherently bound up with the exercise of rights in the Māori legal order.” — Dr Carwyn Jones.
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“Our legal institutions within te ao Māori have been degraded for years through colonisation . . . And because of that degradation, we can’t easily switch back now to tikanga to resolve all our contemporary problems.” — Amokura Kawharu.
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“Perhaps the audacity lies in the assumption that an entire system of values, principles and laws that grew up uniquely in these islands should remain on the margins of the country’s legal system.” — Kennedy Warne responding to criticism of the Supreme Court’s recognition of tikanga in its Peter Ellis decision.
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