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Slip rule applications are rarely successful.

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By PNG Echo That the leave sort by lawyers for the Prime Minister to apply the ‘Slip Rule’ to the recent Supreme Court ruling (lifting the injunction on arrests and harassment of the Prime Minister and his associates) was not granted today, is not surprising. I don’t believe there is any case which has actually been granted leave to make a Slip Rule Application since the rules were changed in 2012 requiring that leave be granted. What’s more, in this particular case the Justices who handed down the decision to lift the stay (Hartshorn, Makail, Sawong) are the ones that Continue reading Slip rule applications are rarely successful.→

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So you want Kerenga Kua as the next PM- Oh Please!

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By PNG Echo Social media has started throwing around Kerenga Kua’s name as a possible next Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea. In my opinion, it’s an ill-considered notion and this is why: Firstly, having spent many years as the late Sir Michael Somare’s personal lawyer, Kua, no doubt, knows where all the bodies are buried, what’s more, as his legal representative he likely would have helped Sir Michael dig the graves. If Sir Michael knows a certain something about corruption you have to wonder who was the master and who was the apprentice in this relationship. Hypocrisy Secondly, the Continue reading So you want Kerenga Kua as the next PM- Oh Please!→

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