The High Court case challenging the validity of the Members of Parliament Entitlements Commission (PEC) Amendment Regulation 2015 has been listed for first hearing on June 5.
Proceedings have been commenced in the High Court challenging the validity of the Members of Parliament Entitlements Commission (PEC) Amendment Regulation 2015.
Nine male suspects have been arrested in relation to an arson incident at Marau in the Weather Coast area of Guadalcanal. Police Commissioner Frank Prendergast confirmed the arrests. He says ten semi-permanent homes were burned to the ground.
The Ministry of Justice and Legal Affairs will design the refurbishment of six provincial courthouses this year. Minister of Justice and Legal Affairs Ishmael Avui confirms the refurbishments during the Committee of Supply deliberations on the 2015 National Budget in Parliament on Monday.
A woman has been discharged after witnesses to her trial failed to turn up in Court yesterday. Principal Magistrate Edwin Suramo discharged Linda Agooka after the two prosecution witnesses who were to testify at her trial yesterday did not turn up in Court.
Chief Magistrate Emmanuel Kouhota says the penalties for exploiting the country’s rare natural resources are grossly inadequate. Chief Magistrate Kouhota made the statement today when sentencing a Taiwanese man to pay four thousand dollars in fines for attempting to export millions of dollars worth…
The High Court has acquitted a man charged with rape and buggery this morning, due to insufficient evidence. The man was charged with one count of rape and one count of buggery, offences he allegedly committed in Lata, Temotu province in 2008.
A young father from Western Province will serve five years in jail for raping his close female relative. The defendant, Edwin Palmer was a frequent visitor to the victim’s home and trusted by her parents. She was 14 years old and a student at the time of the offence last year. The Court heard she
The Court of Appeal has began its sitting for 2015 at the High Court in Honiara today. Five criminal and eight civil cases are listed for the sitting throughout the week. A direction hearing for Sumitomo’s appeal against Axiom KB is also included in the sitting.
A male suspect has been arrested in relation to a traffic incident which occurred at the Lawson Tama bus stand this week. Police Commissioner Frank Prendergast confirmed the arrest.
The Magistrate Court this morning sentenced a 27-year-old man to two and a half years imprisonment for armed robbery. Boniface Oiafa pleaded guilty to one count of armed robbery. He was jointly charged with six other men for the offence.
The Magistrate Court will sentence a Taiwanese man convicted of attempting to export millions of dollars worth of tubi overseas, next week. Hsieh Fu after a one day trial, was found guilty and convicted on one count of attempted export of prohibited goods and evasion of prohibited export of goods.
Police are continuing their investigations into the rape of a nine-month old pregnant woman at Lungga, East Honiara last month. A man from Guadalcanal has been charged and remanded in custody.
The Magistrates Court has begun its Court circuits for the year, beginning at Atori East of Malaita Province. Officers from the Public Solicitor’s Office and Director of Public Prosecutions have arrived in Auki from Honiara and will travel to Atori tomorrow.
The Prime Minister’s Office will file civil suits against Government officials who failed to account for outstanding imprests of oversea trips. The Auditor General’s Office recorded 31 outstanding interests from the Prime Minister’s Office, totalling to more than a million dollars.
The Leadership Code Commission (LCC) has refused to defer its proceedings against Member of Parliament for Small Malaita, Rick Hou, and former Finance Permanent Secretary Shadrach Fanega. Mr. Hou and Mr. Fanega are both facing charges of official misconduct.
MP for East Guadalcanal Bradley Tovosia and former Guadalcanal premier Anthony Veke have denied they abused their authority while in office. Mr Tovosia and Mr Veke appeared in Court this morning and pleaded not guilty to eleven counts of abuse of office and attempt of abuse of office each.
The Magistrate Court has sentenced a 19-year-old man to 18 months in jail for unlawfully wounding his wife. The accused, Junior Taro, received his sentence this morning.
Two women including a Solomon Islander, have been charged with submitting misleading investment. Lanyu Chen and Jennifer Sifonia appeared in Court last Friday; each facing one count each of the charges.
The High Court has farewelled one of its longest serving staff, Timothy Kwaimani. At seventy years of age, Mr Kwaimani retires at the age of seventy years old and after serving the public service for 54 years; 42 of which he spent at the High Court.
