Waitangi Day protest, 2006 (Photo by Flickr user Charlie Brewer, Feb. 6, 2006, used under Creative Commons License 2.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/). 1901: In Nireaha Tamaki v Baker, the Privy Council in London ruled that the courts did have jurisdiction to determine whether the land in dispute had been ceded to the Crown, in contrast to the approach that the New Zealand courts had taken since the Wi Parata case. [read post]