YAP, 28 MAY 2020 (RNZ PACIFIC) — The Governor of Yap in the Federated States of Micronesia is being sued by the legislature over the State of Emergency declared in March in response to the Covid-19 global pandemic. The lawsuit against Governor Henry Falan was filed Wednesday and questions the interpretation of the State Constitution […]
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Australia’s highest court to judge cardinal’s abuse appeal
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia’s highest court on Tuesday will judge Cardinal George Pell’s appeal against convictions for molesting two teenage choirboys more than two decades ago. But the legal battle over the world’s most senior Catholic convicted of sexually abusing children may not end there. The High Court could deliver Pope Francis’ former finance […]
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Two Solomon Islands MPs lose seats in Parliament
HONIARA, 17 FEBRUARY 2020 (SOLOMON STAR) — Central Honiara MP John Moffat Fugui and Northeast Guadalcanal MP Jamie Vokia on Friday lost their seats in two dramatic Solomon Islands High Court election petition rulings. This was after two High Court judges found them both guilty of bribery. Justice Rex Faukona found Fugui guilty of one […]
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New Zealand’s first slavery trial to enter second week in the High Court in Napier
NAPIER, 17 FEBRUARY 2020 (STUFF NZ) — New Zealand’s first court trial involving slavery and human trafficking charges has ended its first week in the High Court in Napier and will resume today. The trial before Justice Helen Cull and a jury started on Monday last week with horticultural and viticultural contractor Joseph Matamata, also […]
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Judge orders immigration detention hotline restored
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to restore a free hotline that let detained immigrants report concerns about custody conditions until shortly after it was featured on the TV show “Orange Is the New Black.” U.S. District Court Judge André Birotte Jr. on Tuesday issued a preliminary injunction ordering […]
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Sunia: Let them float between islands in a canoe
PAGO PAGO, 20 JANUARY 2020 (TALANEI NEWS) —- American Samoa Associate Justice Fiti Sunia says if over stayers from Samoa are refused by their government when deported, they can float between islands in a canoe. Samoa News reports the judge made the comments during sentencing of a Samoan national who was convicted of second degree […]