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May 25, 2023
RNZ Pacific The Appeal Court in French Polynesia has acquitted the pro-independence leader Oscar Temaru and two others in the case of the funding of community Radio Tefana. Pro-independence community station Radio Tefana … acquitted over the US$1 million broadcast case. Image: Radio Tefana/RNZ In 2019, Temaru was given a six-month suspended prison sentence and ... <a title="Court acquits Tahitian politician Oscar Temaru in anti-nuclear radio case" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/05/25/court-acquits-tahitian-politician-oscar-temaru-in-anti-nuclear-radio-case/" aria-label="Read more about Court acquits Tahitian politician Oscar Temaru in anti-nuclear radio case">Read more</a>
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June 28, 2021
RNZ Pacific The electoral stalemate in Samoa finally looks set to be resolved with a Court of Appeal ruling on Friday paving the way for a Supreme Court hearing today. Today’s hearing will determine whether the swearing-in ceremony held last month by the election-winning FAST party was legal. The Supreme Court is due to sit ... <a title="Samoan court ruling may open door to Parliament sitting this week" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/28/samoan-court-ruling-may-open-door-to-parliament-sitting-this-week/" aria-label="Read more about Samoan court ruling may open door to Parliament sitting this week">Read more</a>
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June 5, 2021
EDITORIAL: By the Samoa Observer editorial board Buoyed as he is by [Wednesday’s] court decision, Samoa’s caretaker Prime Minister has shown a character flaw weighing down upon our national politics: an inability to face up to hard truths. Despite Tuilaepa Dr Sa’ilele Malielegaoi having just alleged the judiciary was conspiring against him, the Appellate Court ... <a title="Samoa Observer: For Tuilaepa, the truth hurts" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/05/samoa-observer-for-tuilaepa-the-truth-hurts/" aria-label="Read more about Samoa Observer: For Tuilaepa, the truth hurts">Read more</a>
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June 3, 2021
ANALYSIS: By Fuimaono Dylan Asafo Samoa’s Court of Appeal (CA) ruled yesterday that Article 44(1A) of the Constitution requires that six women should sit in Parliament. With all due respect, I believe that the CA’s decision was incorrect. This is on the grounds that the CA has overreached its powers by encroaching on the law-making ... <a title="Fuimaono Dylan Asafo: Samoan ruling an unfortunate case of judicial overreach" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/03/fuimaono-dylan-asafo-samoan-ruling-an-unfortunate-case-of-judicial-overreach/" aria-label="Read more about Fuimaono Dylan Asafo: Samoan ruling an unfortunate case of judicial overreach">Read more</a>
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November 30, 2018
T-shirts worn by family and supporters of the 19 Nauruans who were prosecuted by government for staging a protest outside of Parliament in 2015. Image: RNZP/Nauru 19/ Facebook By RNZ Pacific The group known as the Nauru 19 will go back to court next week in what will be the first sitting of the Nauru ... <a title="Nauru 19 to appear in first sitting of nation’s new Court of Appeal" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2018/11/30/nauru-19-to-appear-in-first-sitting-of-nations-new-court-of-appeal/" aria-label="Read more about Nauru 19 to appear in first sitting of nation’s new Court of Appeal">Read more</a>
