Recording to be used in court case

By SAMUEL RAITANO
A FINAL year law student who took the University of Papua New Guinea to court for allegedly suspending and penalising him without cause, gave a court order yesterday at the Waigani National Court registry to retrieve a transcript from the court reporting service.
The order to provide the transcript of a voice recording was issued by Justice David Yagi in order to confirm certain orders made on Aug 22 by Justice Les Gavara-Nanu.
Yagi wanted to confirm the orders because the student, Jacob Kumbu Sanga, had told the court last Thursday that UPNG lawyer Christine Lari was “lying” to the court and had misinterpreted the orders by Gavara-Nanu.
The court had directed Sanga to carry out the order to have the transcript brought before it, following last Thursday’s motion by the defendant’s lawyer that an affidavit sworn by Sanga as per Aug 22 orders contained exceedingly irrelevant material in respect to the orders.
However, Sanga had argued that the contents of the affidavit were what Justice Gavara-Nanu had ordered.
Sanga had then told the court that defending lawyer Lari was “lying” and asked the court to order the transcript recording the orders of Aug 22 to be examined by it. 
Sanga had been representing himself in court since 2009, when he was suspended by the UPNG Student Disciplinary Council following an incident in which a group of students had damaged the institution’s property during a fight with security guards.
Sanga had been fighting his suspension and a fine of K11,000 imposed by the institution, on allegations that he was the instigator and leader of the rioting group.
Upon scrutiny of the transcript, the court will make out who was telling the truth in relation to Gavara-Nanu’s orders.
The next hearing of the matter was set for Dec 6.