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Saturday 27 April 2013
Nuku'alofa, Tonga
The Crown lodged an appeal last week against a decision by Nuku'alofa Magistrate Salesi Mafi to release three of the six men accused of manslaughter in relation to the death of New Zealand Police officer Kali Fungavaka.
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Friday 26 April 2013
Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Nuku'alofa businessman, and former parliamentary candidate, Saia Moehau, and Epic International Ltd., have lost an appeal over Westpac Bank of Tonga's claim against him in seeking to recover debts amounting to over $1 million pa'anga.
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Tuesday 23 April 2013
Nuku'alofa, Tonga
The first sitting of Tonga's Court of Appeal ended at the Supreme in Nuku'alofa on April 17 and delivered judgements, that quashed a 13-years imprisonment sentence and replaced it with six-years for a man who was convicted of raping his sister-in-law while holding a knife to her neck.
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Thursday 11 April 2013
Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Three of the six men accused of manslaughter in relation to the death of New Zealand police officer Kali Fungavaka will face trial at the Supreme Court, while three others were released today in Nuku‘alofa.
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Tuesday 9 April 2013
Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Tonga's Court of Appeal Session began at the Nuku'alofa Supreme Court on 8 April with a new judge Hon. Sir Peter Blanchard, and will hear 10 cases, including appeals over sentencing in two rape cases.
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Friday 5 April 2013
Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Tonga's Chief Justice Hon. Michael Scott is to decide whether the Supreme Court has the jurisdiction to review the internal proceedings of the Legislative Assembly of Tonga, in an application brought by Tonga's former Prime Minister Lord Sevele and Paul Karalus, a former Minister of Transport, who are claiming that their reputations were damaged by the Report of a Parliamentary Select Committee.
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Tuesday 2 April 2013
Nuku'alofa, Tonga
A new Parliamentary Select Committee that was established to further consider the Nuku'alofa Development Corporation Report, met today for the second time.
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Wednesday 27 March 2013
Nuku'alofa, Tonga
A ruling on the Preliminary Inquiry into the death of Kali Fungavaka is expected to be handed down on April 10 at the Nukualofa Magistrate's Court.
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Friday 22 March 2013
Nuku'alofa, Tonga
The Preliminary Inquiry for Lord Tu'iha'ateiho, the current Deputy Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of Tonga, who is charged with one count of unlawful possession of a firearm, has been set for July 29-31.
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Wednesday 13 March 2013
Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Two Tongan Lords, including the current Deputy Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of Tonga and a former Speaker, have pending court cases at the Nuku'alofa Magistrate's court, after being charged with offences of illegal possession of arms and ammunitions.
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Wednesday 13 March 2013
Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Two weeks after a Preliminary Inquiry was held on February 25-28A ruling has not been made by Magistrate Salesi Mafi on whether there is a case to be tried at the Supreme Court against six men accused of manslaughter in the death of Kali Fungavaka, .
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Tuesday 5 March 2013
Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Defence counsel for the six accused who have been charged with manslaugher following the death in police custody of a New Zealand Police officer, Kali Fungavaka last August, presented a written submission to Magistrate Salesi Mafi today, March 5, in response to earlier submissions made by the prosecutor, during a Preliminary Inquiry on February 25-28, calling for the case to be tried at the Supreme Court.
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Thursday 28 February 2013
Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Some of the police officers who were on duty on the night Kali Fungavaka was arrested and allegedly beaten up in detention, have given their evidence at the Nuku'alofa Magistrate's Court. One witness alleged one of the accused officers stood on his chest while another choked the victim on the neck, as he was being searched inside the Nuku'alofa Central Police Station on the night of August 17, 2012.
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Thursday 28 February 2013
Nuku'alofa, Tonga
A witness this morning at the Preliminary Inquiry into the death of New Zealand Police officer Kali Fungavaka alleged she saw the victim being punched twice by accused police officers in front of the Langafonua Centre opposite Timeout Bar, in central Nuku'alofa.
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Wednesday 27 February 2013
Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Magistrate Salesi Mafi this morning requested journalists to suppress the names of the six accused in the Preliminary Inquiry into the death of New Zealand Police officer Kali Fungavaka, which entered its third day at the Nuku'alofa Magistrate's Court today.
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Tuesday 26 February 2013
Nuku'alofa, Tonga
A forensic pathologist from New Zealand who conducted a post-mortem examination on Kali Fungavaka's body, believed that the cause of death was a huge blunt force trauma to the head. He today revealed the extent of the multiple injuries found on the victim's body ranging from a fractured skull, haemorrhage and bruising to his brain, a fractured neck bone with bruises to other parts of his body.
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Monday 25 February 2013
Nuku'alofa, Tonga
The Crown alleges that New Zealand police officer Kali Fungavaka was beaten-up from the time he was arrested outside a Nuku'alofa bar and while he was led on foot to the Central Police Station, where the prosecution described the horrific beatings allegedly continued by the six men accused of manslaughter.
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Monday 25 February 2013
Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Key evidence of what went on in the back of the Nuku'alofa Police Station the night New Zealand police officer Kali Fungavake received fatal injuries, is expected to come out in a preliminary inquiry that was due to start this morning in the Nuku'alofa Magistrate's Court but was delayed when it was discovered that the evidence of the accused policemen and civilian will clash.
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Wednesday 20 February 2013
Nuku'alofa, Tonga
A disciplinary committee of the Tonga Law Society who is challenging the Minister of Police, Prisons and Fire Services and Revenue, Siosifa Tu'utafaiva, has not received his written submission in regards to alleged professional misconduct that was due on Friday, February 15.
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Monday 18 February 2013
Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Five months after the death of Kali Fungavaka, who was injured while in police custody, the Preliminary Inquiry of five Tongan police officers and one civilian who are charged with manslaughter will be held on February 25-27, at the Nuku'alofa Magistrate's Court.
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