Lo bilong yumi yet = Law and custom in Melanesia / Bernard Narokobi ; editors Ron Crocombe, John May and Paul Roche.

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Goroka, Papua New Guinea : University of the South Pacific, Institute of Pacific Studies : Melanesian Institute for Pastoral and Socio - Economic Service, 1989.
Record id:
63550
Added title:
Law and custom in Melanesia.
Author:
Narokobi, Bernard.
University of the South Pacific. Institute of Pacific Studies. 
Melanesian Institute for Pastoral & Socio-Economic Service. 
Crocombe, R. G. 
May, John. 
Roche, Paul. 
Series:
Point series ; no.12.
Subject:
Law -- Melanesia.
Customary law -- Melanesia.
Contents:
1. The Black Islands - Melanesia: Melanesian jurisprudence
2. Melanesian social order
3. Where do we begin? Papua New Guinea
4. Some basic elements
5. The state and its sovereign
6. The separation of powers
7. Equality before the law
8. Ignorance of the law is no excuse
9. Justice according to law
10. The primacy of the written law
11. Supremacy of English common law and equity
12. The dichotomy between criminal and civil law
13. Human rights and freedoms
14. Punishment for wrongs or offences not defined by written law
15. The reasonable man test
16. Finality versus open-endedness
17. The legal profession and legal education.
Note:
Includes index.
Incorporating Point series no. 12.
Variant title:
South Pacific collection.
ISBN:
982020044X
Phys. description:
vi, 173 p. ; 21 cm