Clarification

The National on Thursday Feb 13, 2019 published an article under the headline; “Stay order on O’Neill arrest”.
Our story had incorrectly referred to a restraining order from a different case (SCM 27/2019) in the Supreme Court between Ialibu-Pangia MP Peter O’Neill against Waigani Committal Court Magistrate Cosmas Bidar, Police Commissioner David Manning, the state and others.
In SCM 27/2019 the Supreme Court on Dec 16, 2019, had extended an earlier ex parte order it had initially granted in favour of O’Neill on Nov 20, 2019.
The court had restrained police, its employees, servants or agents, David Manning in his capacity of Acting Commissioner of Police (then) or any police officer under his command from making any arrest or attempt of arrest of O’Neill in association of or in connection with the complaint made by the Minister of Police, Bryan Kramer, on Oct 11, 2019 pending the hearing and determination of O’Neill’s appeal (restraining order).
The case SCM 27/2019 stems from a warrant of arrest against O’Neill.
It is not a general blanket order preventing police from arresting O’Neill but only to a specific complaint from Kramer dated Oct 11, 2019.
On Thursday Feb 13, 2019 The National under the same headline stated that National Court had issued a temporary injunction on any attempt by police to arrest O’Neill.
On Friday Feb 14, The National was given a copy of the court order in National Court case WS184/2019 between O’Neill and Kramer. Order one (1) in part stated that Kramer, police, its employees, servants or agents, Manning or any police officers under his command are restrained from arresting or attempting to arrest O’Neill on a charge or instruction, whether in writing, oral or otherwise of Kramer in his capacity as the Police Minister pending the next return of the matter.
The police are at liberty to arrest O’Neill as long as the arrest and charges are not on instructions from Kramer.