BY JOHN HOUANIHAU

The Government for National Unity and Transformation (GNUT) is of the view that the country’s legal agencies remain relevant to serve the people and their mandates.

Minister for Justice and Legal Affairs Clezy Rore spoke about this during the official launch of the Legal Agencies Reforms and implementation project held at the Heritage Park Hotel on Monday this week.

He said that the country’s legal agencies play an important role in growing democracy, collectively having a duty to contribute to the third Arm of the Democracy.

“Their work is crucial to providing legal advice to any government of the day, access to justice for our populace, prosecutions, law reforms and laws relating to intellectual property and copyright and patents, to name a few,” he said.

“Above all, reforming their mandates now presents the best foundation for ensuring that as a country, we secure and future-proof our legal agencies,” said Rore.

He said that future-proofing also involves considering the long-term impact of the country’s legal agencies, their legal decisions and practices that serve future generations.

He said that the Legal Agencies Reforms and their implementation project will involve consultations between government ministries, stakeholders, legal experts, associations, bilateral partners, CSOs and churches, to name a few.

He said his ministry will encourage a range of policy support and legal conversations, which will contribute to these mandate reforms. 

“I would like to acknowledge the assistance to the Justice sector by DFAT through the Australia Solomon Islands Partnership for Justice Program. Australia remains the only development partner with the Ministry of Justice. I also thank New Zealand for legal and organisational advisers, UNICEF for law reform partnership, legal-related trainings by the PRC and Legal twinning programmes with Fiji, Vanuatu, Papua New Guinea and Australia and PacLII.”

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