Tag Archives: Chief Justice

Who’s sorry now? Appointment of new Chief Justice

Posted on by — 4 Comments ↓

It makes no sense as to why the decision of who would be the new Chief Justice (CJ) hadn’t been well and truly decided before 31 October (2018) when Sir Salamo’s tenure ran out, does it? I mean they’ve been aware of that date for the past 10 years; it hardly came as a surprise, did it? So why are they appointing the former Deputy Chief Justice to the position in an ‘Acting’ capacity? Is the answer ‘leverage’? Learning by example  Cast your minds back to the situation of the Papua New Guinean parliament on 30 May, 2012. It was Continue reading Who’s sorry now? Appointment of new Chief Justice→

Share Button

Power, position and pragmatism – the judiciary vs the executive in PNG

Posted on by — 2 Comments ↓

By PNG Echo Cast your minds back to 2011/2012 – a significant time in the annals of Papua New Guinea’s (PNG) political history It was a time when a defiant executive government squared up to a rampant judiciary in a struggle for supremacy that, arguably, was ultimately won by the executive government (who retained power) However, during the struggle, the judiciary (embodied by the Chief Justice, Sir Salamo Injia) never retreated and many a lesson about the effective wielding of power was learnt by the government players, especially in that which concerns the power, actual and assumed, of the Chief Continue reading Power, position and pragmatism – the judiciary vs the executive in PNG→

Share Button