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By Lagi Keresoma\/<\/p>\n

Apia, Samoa \u2013 20 February 2024:<\/strong> The Pacific Chief Justices Leadership Forum is meeting in Apia this week and looking at how to strengthen connections between the Courts and the community.<\/p>\n

Speaking to the media after the official opening yesterday, Samoa\u2019s Chief Justice, His Honour Satiu Simativa Perese said the importance of the community\u2019s involvement in Court is something that countries need to connect with.<\/p>\n

\u201cI know there is a development in Samoa through the Village Fono Act and the development most recently in terms of the Constitution so that the Supreme Court and Appeal Court are required to have regard to or may have regard to in terms of the Samoan culture and customs,\u201d said Chief Justice Perese.<\/p>\n

He said one of the issues on the agenda to see how other Chief Justices are getting on in their own jurisdictions in terms of the court recognizing what\u2019s happening in the community and how the community reacts.<\/p>\n

Samoa\u2019s Court does recognise the community by taking into account part of its culture as a mitigating factor in a matter before the Court but the law has to be accepted by the community in terms of its legitimacy when dealing through customs and\u00a0Tu ma Aga<\/em>.<\/p>\n

The Court is always facing challenges if not with the system, it\u2019s with outdated laws.<\/p>\n

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Pacific Chief Justices Leadership Forum meeting this week at the Taumeasina Island Resort.<\/p><\/div>\n

New Zealand\u2019s Rt. Honourable Chief Justice,\u00a0Helen Winkelman said one of the long standing challenges is never having as much resources.<\/p>\n

\u201cSome of the areas the Forum is looking at are Climate Change Law, Process of developing intel in our countries to enable the community to play a larger role in our formal court system,\u201d said Helen.<\/p>\n

She said the challenges they chose to take on is to use community knowledge to strengthen their Court system.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Court needs to have a connection to the community to support community understanding on what they do, but also to bring the knowledge to support community into the Court house so there is no concrete block between the two and there is an understanding and support that flows through one to the other,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

It is hoped that at the end of the three day forum, each country would learn about each other\u2019s jurisdiction and also have to develop plans and more collaboration between the region\u2019s justices as they have so much in common.<\/p>\n

Part of the forum is to observe the village of Amaile demonstrate a real life incident and how the village deals with it in the traditional way.<\/p>\n

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Lands and Titles Court President Lesatele Rapi Vaai with Chief Justices from the Pacific.<\/p><\/div>\n

Independent budget for the Court<\/strong>
\nChief Justice Perese reiterated Madame Helen\u2019s point on not having enough resources such as funds to accommodate what the Court needs.<\/p>\n

Samoa\u2019s Judiciary previously raised the issue with the Government and negotiations are continuing, said Chief Justice Perese.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is not an easy subject. The Cabinet still controls our budget but we hope to have\u00a0an independent budget so as to realise the Judiciary\u2019s independence rather than being controlled by the other pillars of the Government,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

No regards for politics<\/strong>
\nThe Samoan judiciary has been under serious attack since dealing with political legal matters after the 2021 general election.<\/p>\n

Satiu said everyone is entitled to their view and the Court carries out their functions accordingly with no regards to politics.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe issue for us is to uphold our oaths and we are comfortable with the integrity of the decisions that we give out,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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