Law reforms our business: Commission
ANY law that require changes, amendments or repeals must come through the office of the Constitutional and Law Reform Commission (CLRC), according to secretary Dr Mange Matui.
Dr Matui said this during the launch of the 11th CLRC issues paper on Wednesday in Port Moresby which aimed to review practices and procedures of the district courts in the country.
“If you were to look at the CLRC, we are more like an eagle that is hovering above the air, looking at all the laws from A-Z and seeing what law that requires changes and we come down and address those pieces of legislations,”Matui said.
“We get directives from Parliament, or from the Minister for Justice, and if they find that if there’s any issues in the country that needs addressing, in terms of address to law, then they forward these issues to the CLRC.
“We are in the business of review and reform of the law.”
Dr Matui said it was important that the CLRC work with those from the ministerial services to ensure that there was a good, efficient and effective system in place to deliver justice to the people.
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We’d think its the other way around – CLRC identifying loopholes in the laws and advising parliament and the minister of justice…
Talking about being an eagle up in the air looking at laws from A-Z – mind you there are a lot of outdated pieces of legislations, amendments and repeals in this country that needed to be review and reform the law so you have a lot of work to do in helping to administer the enforcement of law. This is evident in the number of legal cases in the country. Don’t grandstand when you still have a lot of work to do!!
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