The Chief Justice of Papua New Guinea, Sir Gibbs Salika, attended the 2025 Pacific Judicial Conference (PJC) in New Zealand, accompanied by his team of delegates Justice Nerrie Eliakim, Justice John Carey, Mr. Paul Kelly, Ms. Alison Holt, and Mrs. Stacey Levakia-Wali. The 2025 Pacific Judicial Conference was hosted in Auckland, New Zealand” from the 9th – 12th February under... Read More

The Chief Justice of Papua New Guinea Sir Gibbs Salika had a high-level meeting with delegates from the High People’s Court of Beijing Municipality on October 21, 2024. The delegation of five was led by Sun Linling who is the Vice President of the High People’s Court of Beijing Municipality. The delegation included; 1. Xiao Jianfeng – Chief Justice of the... Read More

The Chief Justice of Papua New Guinea Sir Gibbs Salika, Justice Sir Kina Bona and Justice Daniel Liosi were in Fiji last week to attend the regional Chief Justices meeting on cybercrime and electronic evidence. The Chief Justices meeting involved judicial training which was organized by the PNG Centre for Judicial Excellence (PNGCJE), the Council of Europe through the Council... Read More

Managing and Reporting on Fraud and Corruption Cases The PNGCJE and the Federal Court of Australia hosted twenty-six Registrars and Court Officers from across the Pacific in conjunction with the Tonga Supreme Court in Tonga on 6-8 November 2024. The workshop dealt with Managing and Reporting on Fraud and Corruption Cases.   The workshop provided an opportunity for regional sharing of... Read More

The Papua New Guinea Centre for Judicial Excellence (PNGCJE) key objective to deliver structured training programs for Judges, Magistrates, Court officers and lawyers and other officers of the Law and Justice Sector (LJS) agencies that play a part in the Court process, successfully facilitated a two-day customer service training in Kokopo, East New Britain Province.PNGCJE Program officer responsible for... Read More

Two Judges from the PNG Judiciary, Justice Joseph Yagi and Justice Nerrie Eliakim are currently attending the 11th International Organizational for Judicial Training (IOJT) conference in South Korea along with the PNG Centre for Judicial Excellence (PNGCJE) Assistant Director, Mrs. Stacey Levakia-Vali and PNGCJE Program Officer for Judges Mr. Tongia Kekebogi.The theme of the conference is “Judicial Education at... Read More

The Commonwealth Lawyers Association (CLA) in collaboration with the PNG Centre for Judicial Excellence (PNGCJE) and the PNG Law Society successfully completed a seminar on the topic “PNG continuing Legal Education Disputes and Commercial Law”. Chief Justice Sir Gibbs Salika whilst giving the opening remarks said this was the second continuing legal education seminar with the first one held last... Read More

Following the successful conference held in Cardiff in September 2023, the Commonwealth Magistrates and Judges Association (CMJA) is hosting its annual conference from the 8th – 12th September 2024 in Kigali Rwanda on the theme “Environmental Justice”. The aims and objectives of the CMJA conference is to promote better understanding amongst judicial officers of all ranks and from all parts of... Read More

Whatever skills and knowledge that we receive from the Advanced Mediation Skills Training (AMST) we have to grasp it because such trainings won’t repeat themselves, these were the remarks made by Deputy Chief Justice, Hon. Ambeng Kandakasi to the Judges, Magistrates and Mediators who were at the AMST opening ceremony yesterday. “It is you who is driving the necessary changes... Read More

Welcome back to our third and final series of the 10th Asia Pacific Mediation Forum Conference which will be hosted at the APEC Haus from 19 - 21 August 2024 with the theme “Regional Challenges, Regional Solutions, Global Outcomes: Using Mediation to Resolve Environment and Climate Change Dispute”. As we count down the days to the conference, lets go through... Read More