Nelson Tenths descendants awarded ‘a significant sum of money’
High Court awards compensation to the Nelson Tenths descendants after a nearly two century long battle for justice against the crown. It's likely to be in the hundreds of millions.
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The High Court has delivered a landmark judgment in favour of the Nelson Tenths Trust claim, following breaches of fiduciary duty by the Crown. While the final award to Te Tauihu descendants “is likely to be substantially less than $1 billion,” the Court said that the compensation “will be a
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