Hockly Legal: Māori Land Court & Treaty Claims Legal Experts

Hockly Legal is a specialised law firm that focuses on helping clients find solutions to challenges with Māori land, historic and contemporary breaches of Te Tiriti by the Crown, and the long-term protection of important resources. The firm provides comprehensive legal services including advocacy, negotiation, mediation, and litigation, with a particular emphasis on creativity and innovation to achieve the results clients need.

Cameron Hockly brings over 13 years of experience in these specialised areas of law, offering services as counsel and lawyer to assist with cases in most courts and legal forums throughout Aotearoa-New Zealand. The firm regularly appears in the Māori Land Court on applications dealing with forming trusts and arranging succession, creating access to landlocked land, occupation orders, partitioning of Māori land, mediating disputes over trusts and land utilisation, and moderating meetings between trustees and beneficiaries.

Based in Māngere, Auckland, Hockly Legal serves clients across the motu and also offers mediation and moderating services for hui, meetings of owners, Annual General Meetings, and disputes between parties. The firm is currently involved in significant matters including the Housing Kaupapa Waitangi Tribunal Inquiry and the Porirua ki Manawatu Historical Inquiry, as well as High Court applications on behalf of hapū and iwi seeking recognition of their customary interests in the foreshore and seabed under the Marine and Coastal Area (Takutai Moana) Act.