The child maintenance Act of children in Vanuatu. ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS PART 1 – MAINTENANCE PROCEEDINGS 1. Commencement of maintenance proceedings 2. Application for order 3. Reception of actions 4. Cause of action will not lie in certain cases 5. Powers of...
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Women and Children’s Access to the Formal Justice System in Vanuatu
To read the full report click here. Executive Summary In 2009, the Vanuatu Women’s Centre (VWC) in partnership with the Vanuatu National Statistics Office (VNSO) completed the first Vanuatu National Survey on Women’s Lives and Family Relationships. This survey...
Vanuatu – Witness Statement Copy
To view the full report click here. Station/Post: Vila Date: Place/Lieu: Vila Police Station Time/Heure: hrs Name/Nom: ...
Restorative Justice in the Pacific Islands
To read the full report click here. About the Conference Most of the chapters in this book were presented as papers at a three-day conference in Port Vila, Vanuatu, in June 2000. Organised jointly by the Australian National University’s State, Society and Governance...
An Analysis of Judicial Sentencing Practices in Sexual & Gender-Based Violence Cases in the Pacific Island Region
To read the full report click here. Executive Summary We identified and analysed 908 sentencing records involving SGBV in seven PICs: Fiji, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, PNG, Kiribati and Vanuatu. We analysed each case to determine whether gender stereotypes,...
Conflict Management and Access to Justice in Rural Vanuatu
To read the full report click here. Research Overview This research is the result of several years of engagement by the Policing and Justice Support Program (Vanuatu), in partnership with the Vanuatu Ministry of Justice and Community Services, with funding...
Beyond Case Law: Kastom and Courts in Vanuatu
To read the full report click here. This article considers the relationship between customary law (kastom) and the official legal system in Vanuatu. It looks at the limitations of the reasons propounded for the lack of integration of customary law and the official...
A Bird That Flies With Two Wings – Kastom and State Justice System in Vanuatu
To read the full report click here. Miranda Forsyth researched and wrote this book while teaching at the University of the South Pacific Law School in Vanuatu for the past six years. During this time, she acquired depth and breadth of knowledge of law and kastom in...