A Papua New Guinea Special Parliamentary Committee has heard that laws could be considered that make sorcery accusations illegal.
East Sepik Governor Allan Bird listens to Senior Magistrate Tracy Ganai at a Papua New Guinea Special Parliamentary Committee into Gender-based Violence.
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The nagging problem of sorcery accusation-related violence in PNG has featured in a seminal two-day public hearing on gender-based violence in the country.
The committee has been told of a widespread perception that the spate of violence toward females usually happens without consequences for perpetrators.
Many violent attacks within grassroots communities are based on claims that sorcery has been used by a person, usually, to harm another person.
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Victoriaâs legal watchdog is threatening to cancel the practising certificate of the lawyer behind a class action launched on behalf of 3000 public housing tower residents who were compulsorily shut inside their homes at the height of the coronavirus pandemicâs second wave.
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The Age confirm the Victorian Legal Services Board wrote to solicitor Serene Teffaha in March to provide her with a ânotice of proposed cancellation of practising certificateâ.
Solicitor Serene Teffaha of Advocate Me says she intends to contest the action from the Victorian Legal Services Board.
The notice was sent to Ms Teffaha, a high-profile anti-lockdown activist, at the same time that she filed the class action on behalf of thousands of public housing tenants subjected to the hard lockdown by the state government and confined to their homes in July 2020.
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Two convicted terrorists accused of assaulting a prison officer may be forced to attend court after they refused to leave their cells to answer the charges today.
Parson s Green Tube bomber Ahmed Hassan, 21, and Hashem Abedi, the 23-year-old brother and accomplice of the Manchester Arena suicide bomber, did not appear in court.
The pair are accused, alongside Muhammed Saeed, 23, of assault occasioning actual bodily harm on prison officer Paul Edwards at HMP Belmarsh on May 11 last year.
Saeed, who last year pleaded guilty to five counts of possessing terrorist material, appeared via video link at Westminster Magistrates Court.
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Two major appointments to Queensland’s Magistracy
Attorney-General and Minister for Justice, Minister for Women and Minister for the Prevention of Domestic and Family Violence The Honourable Shannon Fentiman
Attorney-General and Minister for Justice Shannon Fentiman today announced two appointments – Anthony Gett is the state’s newest Deputy Chief Magistrate, while Susan Warrington will become a Magistrate in Cairns.
“Queensland’s judiciary, and by extension the community at large, is in very safe hands when you consider the talent and work ethos of people like Deputy Chief Magistrate Gett and Magistrate Warrington,” Minister Fentiman said.
Deputy Chief Magistrate Gett replaces Magistrate Leanne O’Shea, who has retired.