Tag: Supreme Court
Keep Maria Ressa out of jail, #HoldTheLine tells Marcos
Pacific Media Watch
The #HoldTheLine Coalition has urged President Marcos of the Philippines to end persecution of journalists and independent media by dropping all charges...
Vanuatu’s chief justice orders change over dissolution of parliament plea
RNZ Pacific
The Chief Justice of Vanuatu has ordered the amendment of a constitutional application against the dissolution of Parliament to exclude the president of...
Press freedom in jeopardy amid Indonesian authoritarianism
ANALYSIS: By Kyle Delbyck of the TrialWatch Initiative
Journalist Muhammad Asrul is awaiting word from Indonesia’s Supreme Court about whether he will spend further time...
PNG court sheriffs clamp down on dangerous weapons, boost security
PNG Post-Courier
Papua New Guinea's Sheriff Security at the Waigani Supreme and National Court have stepped up their surveillance of the court premises following this...
Controversial Roe v Wade ruling triggers intense NZ media reaction
By Hayden Donnell, RNZ Mediawatch producer
Some said the US Supreme Court’s controversial ruling on abortion was none of our business, because we don’t have...
NZ health sector may see influx of US doctors after abortion...
By Leah Tebbutt, RNZ News reporter
An Aotearoa New Zealand health workforce recruiting agency is fielding calls from senior US doctors who say they can...
Personal beliefs ‘shouldn’t rob women of choice’, says Ardern on Roe...
RNZ News
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern called the US Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v Wade "incredibly upsetting" as New Zealand politicians reacted to...
Roe v Wade shows why abortion is at the heart of...
ANALYSIS: By Tim Watkin, RNZ Series and podcasts executive producer
It was sometime in the late 1990s that I first interviewed Alan Webster about New...
US Supreme Court overturns Roe v Wade – but for abortion...
ANALYSIS: By Prudence Flowers, Flinders University
The United States Supreme Court has handed down a ruling overturning Roe v Wade, the landmark 1973 decision that...
Russian oligarch’s super yacht leaves Fiji for US following court ruling
RNZ Pacific
A Russian-owned superyacht docked in Fiji has left for the United States after a Fiji court ordered its removal, saying it was a...
Media watchdogs slam 16 new legal complaints against Ressa, Rappler
Pacific Media Watch newsdesk
Ahead of national elections in the Philippines next month, the state has stepped up its attacks on Nobel Peave laureate Maria...
Court lifts temporary block to PNG executions after 70 years –...
By Trevor Wahune in Port Moresby
A five-man Supreme Court bench has quashed by a majority decision National Court temporary orders that have stayed the...
Tuila’epa supporters demonstrate over ‘disintegration’ of Samoa constitution
By Soli Wilson in Apia
Heavy rain early today failed to deter more than 1000 Human Rights Protection Party (HRPP) supporters who gathered in front...
Samoa’s Supreme Court declares Parliament must sit within week
RNZ Pacific
Samoa's Supreme Court has ruled that the FAST party's swearing in at Parliament last month was illegal.
But it has also ruled that Parliament...
Samoa’s FAST gets Appeal Court election clarification it wanted
RNZ Pacific
The Court of Appeal in Samoa says its ruling from June 2 on the sixth women's seat cannot be used to delay the...
Vanuatu Supreme Court confirms 19 government MPs lose seats
RNZ Pacific
Vanuatu Supreme Court judge Justice Oliver Saksak has upheld a decision by the former Speaker of Parliament to expel 19 government MPs from...
Vanuatu judge stays Speaker’s vacation of PM plus 18 parliamentary seats
RNZ Pacific
Vanuatu Supreme Court judge Justice Oliver Saksak has granted a stay on the vacation of 19 seats in the country's Parliament.
On Tuesday, the...
Vanuatu speaker declares vacant seats of PM, his deputy and 16...
RNZ Pacific
The speaker of the Vanuatu Parliament has declared the seats of the prime minister, the deputy prime minister and 16 other government MPs...
Samoa Observer: The Attorney-General’s fall from grace
EDITORIAL: By the Samoa Observer's editorial board
Amid a mountainload of work this week in the Attorney-General’s Office – as the caretaker government’s lawyers...
Attorney-General’s office attacks Chief Justice as Samoan political crisis deepens
By Barbara Dreaver, TVNZ One News Pacific correspondent
Samoa’s deepening political crisis has taken yet another turn today after the Attorney-General’s office launched an astounding...
FAST party locked out of Samoa’s Fale Fono as election turmoil...
By Jamie Tahana, RNZ Pacific journalist
Samoa's constitutional crisis deepened today with the party that commands the majority of seats locked out of Parliament, but...
Supreme Court upholds original proclamation in Samoan crisis
By Sina Retzlaff in Apia
Samoa's Parliament will convene tomorrow as originally planned
The Supreme Court has issued orders to uphold the original proclamation, dated 20...