Substantial Justice
Papua New Guinea''s village court system was introduced in 1974, partly in an effort to overcome the legal, geographical, and social distance between village societies and the country''s formal courts. There are now more than 1100 village courts all over PNG, hearing thousands of cases each week. This anthropological study is grounded in ethnographic research on three different village courts and ...
Papua New Guinea''s village court system was introduced in 1974, partly in an effort to overcome the legal, geographical, and social distance between village societies and the country''s formal courts. There are now more than 1100 village courts all over PNG, hearing thousands of cases each week. This anthropological study is grounded in ethnographic research on three different village courts and ...
