Chief Justice
The Chief Justice of the National Court is also the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, styled the Chief Justice of Papua New Guinea. The independence of the Bench was tested in 1979 during the Rooney Affair (see Law of Papua New Guinea), whose outcome was the resignation of Sir William Prentice, the second (and expatriate) Chief Justice of Papua New Guinea together with three other expatriate judges.
Sir Buri Kidu then became the first national Chief Justice. At the elapse of his ten-year term he was succeeded by Sir Arnold Amet. Amet was succeeded by Sir Mari Kapi, who served as chief justice from August 16, 2003 until his resignation in 2008 for health reasons. Kapi was succeeded by Chief Justice Sir Salamo Injia.
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