Results for From the Courts

A 20-year-old male offender, Fakalesi Mafi, will serve a one- year imprisonment for abetment to an armed robbery where his co-accused beat up a shop owner with a rock and fled with $1,000 cash.

The Preliminary Inquiry for the former Speaker of the Legislative Assembly Lord Tu'ilakepa, who is charged with illegal firearms, ammunitions and illicit drugs offences, begins on April 26 at the Fasi Magistrate's Court.

The Prime Minister of Tonga Lord Tu'ivakano was dismissed on one count of reckless driving due to insufficient evidence in a judgement delivered by Magistrate Salesi Mafi at the Fasi Magistrate's Court this morning, January 18.

The Ashika manslaughter trials are set to begin in the Nuku'alofa Supreme Court on February 7, before Justice Robert Schuster.

Liu Lirong, the woman accused of seven counts of trafficking persons into Tonga, keeping a brothel and trading in prostitution was released from police custody this afternoon, Friday January 14.

A Chinese national, a woman residing in Nuku'alofa appeared at the Nuku'alofa Supreme Court this morning charged with seven counts, of trafficking persons into Tonga, keeping a brothel and trading in prostitution.

Two petitions have been filed with the Supreme of Court of Tonga, regarding the outcome of Tonga's November 25, 2010 General Election in two constitutencies, Tongatapu 6 and Vava'u 14.

A Tongan noble, Tu'ilakepa has been charged with five criminal counts, including two for possession of illegal firearms, two for possession illegal ammunition and one count for possession of an illicit drug, after making his second court appearance in closed chambers at the Fasi Magistrate's Court today, December 9.

The trial of Ramsay Robertson Dalgety also known as Lord Dalgety, for perjury was quashed by Justice Robert Shuster in the Nuku'alofa Supreme Court this morning, November 1, on a technicality, when he ruled that indictments must be signed and dated.