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Twivey’s referral to Law Society founded on a wrong premise.

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By PNG Echo When Judge Kirriwom today referred lawyer Tiffany Twivey to the Law Society for perverting the course of justice he did so on the premise that she had “…signed consent judgment setting aside the warrant of the arrest of Dairi Vele without notifying Detective Chief Inspector Gitua…” (page 30 – Judgment SCM No 87 of 2014). This is not what she’d done. Ms Twivey, in fact, signed on 29 July, in the District Court, a consent order for an adjournment that had been requested by the Commissioner of Police (as the warrant was short served). At the same Continue reading Twivey’s referral to Law Society founded on a wrong premise.→

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The incredible rise and fall of Sam Koim

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By PNG Echo Then… Sam Koim started his legal career, at the end of 2008, as an employed lawyer at the Office of the Solicitor General. He rose quickly (within three years) to national – even international – prominence. Koim owes his meteoric rise, at least the start of it, to his friendship with Sam Basil. Indeed it was Basil, then Minister for National Planning in the O’Neill/Namah government, who, in 2011, put in a submission to the NEC for the establishment of Task Force Sweep (TFS) with Koim at the helm. At the time, Koim had only two years Continue reading The incredible rise and fall of Sam Koim→

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