The Papua New Guinea Centre for Judicial Excellence in conjunction with the Commonwealth Secretariat, hosted a two-day symposium on Cybercrime and Electronic Evidence at the Hilton Hotel in Port Moresby. The symposium was attended by judges and magistrates from provincial National and District Courts, who learned about the key aspects of dealing with cybercrime cases and electronic evidence. The symposium... Read More

The PNG Judiciary welcomes the President of the Commonwealth Lawyers Association, Dr. Peter Maynard KC, to Port Moresby on 3 to 9 February. Dr. Maynard will attend the 2024 legal year opening ceremony. Dr. Maynard is a senior partner of Peter D. Maynard Counsel and Attorneys, a full-service commercial firm in the Bahamas. He is also the former Vice President... Read More

The PNG Centre for Judicial Excellence conducted a webinar on 22 November 2023 on the topic of Human Rights in Papua New Guinea, focusing specifically on Gender Based Violence (GBV) in PNG as violation of Human Rights. The one-hour webinar was conducted by Justice Oagile Dingake, who is a Judge of the Supreme and National Courts of PNG. Judge Dingake... Read More

Justice John Carey delivered the last Ethics and Integrity workshop to fourteen National and Supreme Court staff on Friday 17 November at the PNGCJE training room.  The participants included staff from the NJSS Buildings and Facilities division, Finance division, Public Relations unit, National Court Registry, Court Reporting Services and the ADR Services.  In his presentation, Justice Carey shared a video on... Read More

Chief Justice of the Federal Court of Australia, Honourable Chief Justice Debra Mortimer on her official visit to PNG for the Sir Buri Kidu Lecture Series toured the new Waigani National and Supreme Court Complex, the National Museum, the Parliament House, the Nature Park, Bomana War Cemetary and the Legal Training Institute. Read More

Click on the following link to read the full article on Constitution-building and safeguarding the integrity of elections in Africa. Read More

Anti Corruption Workshop by UNDP The Papua New Guinea Anti-Corruption Project, funded by the European Union and implemented by UNDP and UNODC, aims to strengthen the Government’s commitment and capacity to address corruption in the country. The project further aims to effectively progress the Sustainable Development Goals for the benefit of all Papua New Guineans and to support the... Read More

The Honourable Chief Justice Debra Mortimer of the Federal Court of Australia arrived in Port Moresby on Sunday 22 October for the Sir Buri Kidu Lecture Series.The lecture was held on the 24th of October 2023 at the University of Papua New Guinea’s Waigani campus. It was opened to the public particularly professionals from the law and justice sector... Read More

Lawyers from the public and private sector completed a one-day training on Whistleblower Protection last Wednesday 13, September 2023.  The training program was part of an initiative between the PNG Centre for Judicial Excellence and the United Nations Development Programme through the office of the UNDP Chief Technical Adviser, Dr. Alma Sedlar.  Facilitator and UNDP international consultant in whistleblowing information and... Read More