This paper examines three systems of courts of justice, each in a different country in the region of South Pacific islands known as Melanesia, where state legal systems have been adopted from former European colonial governments. The systems discussed are, by comparison, 'hybrid', each of them having been established with the intention of addressing disputes among small-scale social groups by less formal means or by taking greater heed of customary...
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2010/01/01
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The hybrid courts of Melanesia : a comparative analysis of village courts of Papua New Guinea, Island courts of Vanuatu, and local courts of Solomon Islands
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island courts