In court

Border crosser case pending

BY JENNIFER KUSAPA POLICE Commissioner Mostyn Mangau says the case against two Shortland men accused of assisting a Bougainvillean cross the western border is yet to be finalised as some statements are yet to be obtained. Mangau speaking at the…

What’s unfolding?

Chief justice blasts fellow judges in high court ruling By Alfred Sasako CHIEF Justice Sir Albert Palmer has used an election petition judgement to unleash a torrent of criticisms on two fellow judges – a move legal practitioners have described…

MP Manetoali freed

BY JENNIFER KUSAPA THE Member of Parliament for Gao-Bugotu Constituency Samuel Eaney Manetoali has been acquitted of all 18 counts of conversion after the presiding Principal Magistrate Fatimah Taeburi ruled that there was no sufficient evidence to support the prosecution’s…