Baden VertongenBaden Vertongen

Baden Vertongen (Ngāti Raukawa) has a Master of Science from Massey University and a law degree from the University of Otago. He is legal counsel for the Raukawa Charitable Trust. He has worked on a wide range of legal issues affecting Māori organisations and those who work with Māori, including the negotiation and settlement of Treaty of Waitangi claims.

Whose law is it anyway? Treaty legislation and the Supreme Court

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This week the Supreme Court dipped its toes into the troubled waters of the Crown’s settlement negotiations with Hauraki iwi in a decision on whether or not Ngāti Whātua can challenge elements of that settlement in court. Lawyer and mediator Baden Vertongen (Ngāti Raukawa) peels back the complex layers of that decision.  In 2006, Ngāti Whātua sought to … Read more