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Brazenly contemptuous

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By PNG Echo Sam Koim is a lawyer, an officer of the court. For an officer of the court to break the law is considered serious. Sam Koim has done so – knowingly and with considerable contempt. Just a few short days before the judicial review into the disbanding of Investigation Task Force Sweep, a matter filed by Koim as the Chairman of the Investigation Task Force Sweep, against Prime Minister Peter O’Neill, Koim has released “A Progress Update” of Investigation Task Force Sweep that has been reported widely in the media and is contained in its entirety on the Continue reading Brazenly contemptuous→

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Thin blue line between justice and contempt

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As a reasonably litigious society, it is often too easy for the PNG media to eschew publishing about matters that don’t flatter their prejudices using the excuse of subjudice contempt as their morally pious shield, notwithstanding that PNG does not have trial by jury so the only person who can be influenced by publication is judges who are supposedly impervious. In the article below which I wrote for ABC The Drum, more than four year ago, I lamented that the charge is used by the unscrupulous to avoid scrutiny. Is the press in PNG also using it to promote and Continue reading Thin blue line between justice and contempt→

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