Waitangi Tribunal Claims against the Proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement: week ending 24 July 2015 (edition 25/2015)

Last week a Waitangi Tribunal claim and an application for an urgent hearing was lodged by eight members of the New Zealand Māori Council, WAI 2532.[1]   The claim is against the Government’s ongoing role in seeking to negotiate a Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) with eleven other countries.  The claim alleges