Supreme Court of Papua New Guinea

The Supreme Court of Papua New Guinea has been the highest court of Papua New Guinea since 16 September 1975, replacing the pre-Independence Supreme Court (corresponding to the post-Independence National Court) and the overseas appellate tribunals from 1902 to 1975 of the High Court of Australia and the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council. Judges of the pre-Independence Supreme Court automatically became the justices of the National Court and accordingly among the pool of judges available to be empanelled as a Supreme Court bench. "The National and Supreme Court of Papua New Guinea is composed of the Chief Justice, Deputy Chief Justice and 21 Judges."

Read more about Supreme Court Of Papua New Guinea:  "Full Court" of The National Court, Reference Jurisdiction and The Separation of Powers, Developing The Underlying Law, Hierarchy of Precedent, Chief Justice

Famous quotes containing the words supreme, court and/or guinea:

    The woman and the genius do not work. Up to now, woman has been mankind’s supreme luxury. In all those moments when we do our best, we do not work. Work is merely a means to these moments.
    Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

    The Twist was a guided missile, launched from the ghetto into the very heart of suburbia. The Twist succeeded, as politics, religion, and law could never do, in writing in the heart and soul what the Supreme Court could only write on the books.
    Eldridge Cleaver (b. 1935)

    To the eyes of a miser a guinea is more beautiful than the sun, and a bag worn with the use of money has more beautiful proportions than a vine filled with grapes.
    William Blake (1757–1827)