§674-10 Findings and advisory opinion. (a) The panel shall prepare findings and an advisory opinion concerning the probable merits of a claim, probable award of compensation, or recommended corrective action by the State. (b) The findings and advisory opinion shall be signed by all members of the panel; provided that any member of the panel […]
§674-11 Subsequent litigation; excluded evidence. No statement made in the course of any investigation, hearing, or review proceedings of the panel shall be admissible in evidence either as an admission, to impeach the credibility of a witness, or for any other purpose in any legal proceeding. No opinion, conclusion, finding, or recommendation of the panel […]
§674-12 Immunity of panel members from liability. No member of the panel shall be liable in damages for libel, slander, or other defamation of character of any party to a panel proceeding for any action taken or any opinion, conclusion, finding, or recommendation made by a panel member while acting within the member’s capacity as […]
§674-13 Legal adviser. The panel, in accordance with section 28-8.3, shall obtain its own legal counsel to provide legal services necessary to implement the purposes of this chapter. [L 1991, c 323, pt of §1; am L Sp 1993, c 8, §53; am L 2015, c 35, §40]
§674-14 Annual report. The panel shall prepare a report to be transmitted to the governor and to the legislature, at least twenty days prior to the convening of the regular session of 1998, and a final report to be transmitted to the governor and to the legislature, at least twenty days prior to the convening […]
§674-15 Limitations upon award of compensation or corrective action. No claim shall be made under this chapter for which a remedy was or is provided elsewhere under the laws of this State, which is or was the subject of pending or prior litigation, or which is predicated, in whole or in part, on an act […]
§674-15.5 Preclusion of title-related claims. Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to affect title, or conveyance of title, or place a cloud upon title, to any lands in the State, including but not limited to lands which were, are, or may have been Hawaiian home lands. [L Sp 1995, c 14, §16]
§674-3 Establishment of the board of individual claims resolution. There shall be a Hawaiian home lands trust individual claims review panel to be composed of five members and appointed as follows: the chairperson shall be appointed by the governor and shall be a former federal or state court judge, where possible, or an attorney licensed […]
§674-4 Tenure and compensation of members. The term of office of each member of the panel shall be until December 31, 1999. Any member appointed to fill a vacancy shall be appointed by the governor for the remainder of the term. A vacancy in the panel shall not affect its powers. Each member of the […]
§674-5 Panel staff; power to contract. (a) Supervisory, administrative, investigatory, hearings, and clerical personnel necessary for the efficient functioning of the panel shall be appointed by the panel and the director of commerce and consumer affairs on a temporary exempt basis. There shall be a special assistant to the chairperson of the Hawaiian homes commission, […]
§674-6 Rulemaking powers. The panel shall adopt rules in accordance with chapter 91 prescribing the procedures to be followed in the filing of claims and in the proceedings for review of claims under this chapter, and any other rules as the panel deems necessary to carry out the purposes of this chapter. [L 1991, c […]
§674-7 Review by panel required. Any individual beneficiary under the trust claiming actual damages arising out of or resulting from a breach of trust, which occurred between August 21, 1959, and June 30, 1988, and which was caused by an act or omission of an employee of the State in the management and disposition of […]
§674-8 Powers and procedures of the panel. (a) The panel may hold hearings or such other proceedings as it deems necessary, sit and act at such times and places, and take such testimony as the panel deems advisable. The panel shall fix a time and place for hearings or other proceedings on such claim and […]
§674-9 Panel hearing or review proceedings; fact-finding; evidence. No persons other than the panel or hearings officer, the claimant, representatives of the concerned state agency, legal counsel, witnesses, and persons called by the panel to assist in its review, shall be present during any hearing or other proceedings conducted by the panel, except with the […]
