Gloves come off in Ngāi Tahu water case

Gloves come off in Ngāi Tahu water case

A weeks-long freshwater case is finishing with fireworks.Thursday marked the penultimate day of an eight-week trial in which South Island iwi Ngāi Tahu seeks declarations from the High Court, including that it has rangatiratanga (chiefly authority) over wai māori (freshwater) in its takiwā (territory).In closing submissions before Justice Melanie Harland, Chris Finlayson KC accused the Crown of running an “almost entirely negative” case, and bei…