Legal Transplants: A conflict of statutory law and customary Law in Papua New Guinea

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Legal Transplants: A conflict of statutory law and customary Law in Papua New Guinea

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The state of Papua New Guinea adopted the common law system of government in 1975 during independence. The genesis of most if not all its legislation can be traced back to the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand and other commonwealth countries. The tendency for legal transplants of legislative texts from these common law jurisdictions to sections of Papua New Guinean laws has been a constant reoccurrence. With huge texts of laws transplanted it begs the question whether these laws are coh...

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2017-09-01

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Glen Mola Pumuye

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IALS Student Law Review

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http://journals.sas.ac.uk/lawreview/article/view/2426

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Law in general / Comparative and uniform law / Jurisprudence

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