Tag: Legal issues

ANALYSIS: By Alexander Gillespie, University of Waikato With the cabinet meeting on Monday agreeing to targeted Russian sanctions legislation, New Zealand is preparing to circumvent...

By Theckla Gunga in Port Moresby The two PNG Defence Force officers charged with the wilful murder of late Zone Three police commander Andrew Tovere...

By Stefan Armbruster of SBS News The federal government has lodged an appeal to overturn a Federal Court decision recognising the Australian citizenship of a...

By RNZ Pacific A High Court judge in Fiji has thrown out fines handed to 49 people who were caught breaching curfew or social gathering...

By Kris Gledhill of Auckland University of Technology As New Zealand approaches the end of its strictest lockdown period, a debate has begun about whether...

Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk TAPOL and the East Timor and Indonesia Action Network (ETAN) are calling attention to a judicial review of the “Act of...

By Ralf Rivas in Manila After the ousting of the Philippines' Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno, the six justices who voted against the quo warranto...

By Sheany in Jakarta The National Commission on Violence Against Women, or Komnas Perempuan, has called on the government to do more to protect women's...

By David Robie at Te Papa A former New Zealand prime minister has warned that climate change has the potential to force a legal and...

By Rieka Rahadiana and Yudith Ho in Jakarta Indonesia is set to lose its first and only female constitutional justice, whose term is up...

By Kalino Latu, editor of Kaniva News The government of dismissed democracy Prime Minister ‘Akilisi Pōhiva has been urged to take legal actions against King...

OPINION: By Tess Newton Cain in Port Vila There have been a couple of stories recently in Vanuatu about kava exports and one of the...

Prime Minister Peter O'Neill says the confrontation could have been avoided in a statement to the nation on EM TV News tonight. By Luke Kama...

By Vasinatta Yama and Serah Aupong in Port Moresby An urgent application by the University of Papua New Guinea's Student Representative Council (SRC) president Kenneth...

Dr Paul Moon, professor of history at Auckland University of Technology's Te Ara Poutama, says that a recent failed court action to ban Bible...

Papua New Guinea Prime Minister Peter O'Neill says recent calls by former prime minister and the country's founding leader Sir Michael Somare to leave...