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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.
PNG has ratified 6 of the core human rights treaties; the third highest number in the Pacific behind New Zealand and Australia.These include the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (), International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (), the International Convention for the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (), the Convention on the Rights of the ...
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]
In the latter case the Court is, strictly speaking, not exercising a judicial function but rather, pursuant to the ruling of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in Attorney-General of Ontario v Attorney-General of Canada (Reference Appeal) [1912] AC 571, one of advising the executive branch of government, a jurisdiction expressly conferred on the Supreme Court by Papua New Guinea's ...
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New Guinea became a Trust Territory administered by Australia in 1946, and its inhabitants remained outside of British nationality law. [40] That year, Canada passed a nationality law that would serve as a catalyst for change throughout Britain. The law redefined the order of nationality, stipulating that Canadians were nationals of Canada ...
On Bougainville Island, initially focused on traditional land rights, environmental and economic issues stemming from the operation of the Panguna mine, (a Conzinc RioTinto Australia (now Rio Tinto Limited) and PNG government joint venture), a civil war quickly grew into a war for independence from PNG.
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]