Tag Archives: Ombudsman’s Commission

Ombudsman’s Powers to be decided by Supreme Court.

Posted on by — No Comments ↓

By PNG Echo Plaintiffs, Prime Minister, Peter O’Neill and Acting Secretary of Treasury, Mr Dairi Vele had their application to the National Court upheld today at Waigani. The application was pertaining to a loan acquired by government to purchase Oilsearch shares – a situation that gave rise to certain directions by the defendants, the Ombudsman’s Commission (OC ) whose constitutionality remain in dispute. Earlier this year, proceedings were instigated for a judicial review of the Ombudsman Commission directions to stop payments on said loan The National Court, at that time, stayed the directions of the OC in order that repayments Continue reading Ombudsman’s Powers to be decided by Supreme Court.→

Share Button

Let the courts decide (again)

Posted on by

By PNG Echo The National Court’s decision (June 11) to stay the directive from the Ombudsman’s Commission (OC) forbidding the repayment of the UBS loan until the results of a Judicial Review is heard – is yet another instance of a country that is becoming unnecessarily litigious and overly reliant on the judicial system.  Excessive legalism One could be forgiven for thinking that a punitive ‘legalism’ is standing in the stead of sound judgement in PNG. So concerned are the populace with law enforcement that it serves as a smokescreen for other urgent and relevant questions that so often go Continue reading Let the courts decide (again)→

Share Button