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The Constitution declares the "underlying law" — that is, the separate common law of Papua New Guinea — to consist of the Constitution, "customary law" derived from the "custom" of the various peoples of Papua New Guinea, and the common law of England as it stood at the date of Papua New Guinea's independence on 16 September 1975.
A separate Constitutional Commission was established by the Constitutional Commission Act of 1993. The 2004 Act united these two bodies. In 2009 the Commission established a working committee to review the law on sorcery and related killings. [3] Eric Kwa became the Commission's chairman in 2011, [4] and held the post until 2018. [5]
The Pacific Islands Legal Information Institute [1] (PacLII) collects and publishes legal materials from 20 Pacific Islands Countries on its website www.paclii.org.These countries are American Samoa, Cook Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Fiji Islands, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Nauru, Niue, Papua New Guinea, Pitcairn Island, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tokelau, Tonga, Tuvalu, and Vanuatu ...
In 1997, the government approved in principle the establishment of a human rights commission for PNG with the minimum standards set by the Paris Principles. [6] This commitment was reaffirmed in 2007 with the presentation of the 2007 Final Option Paper on the establishment of the PNG human rights commission; [6] and in 2008 a draft organic law on the establishment of a human rights commission ...
2011–2012 Papua New Guinean constitutional crisis was a dispute between Sir Michael Somare and Peter O'Neill.Both claimed to be Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea. O'Neill had been elected by parliament as prime minister on 2 August 2011 [1] and Sir Michael Somare claimed the post on the basis of a Supreme Court ruling on 12 December 2011. [2]
[37] [38] The constitution, in turn, is underpinned by various organic acts, conventions, and the underlying common and customary law. [39] This body of law altogether gives Papua New Guinea a parliamentary system of government under a constitutional monarchy, wherein the role of the monarch and governor-general is both legal and practical, but ...
It protects constitutional rights and interprets the laws. There are several levels, culminating in the Supreme Court of Papua New Guinea . There is a Supreme Court of Papua New Guinea , not separately constituted but an appellate Full Court of the National Court.
Each government minister must be a member of parliament and section 141 of the constitution provides for the executive to be responsible to the legislature as the representative of the people of Papua New Guinea. [6] Papua New Guinea has a fractious political culture, and no party in the history of parliament has yet won a majority. [4]