11-05-2007, 12:13 PM
(Matangi Tonga)
The trial of five People's Representatives who are charged with sedition been postponed for another nine months to August 2008 reports Matangi Tonga.
The five PRs who were scheduled to appear in the Nuku'alofa Supreme Court next Monday next week, now await a decision by the Court of Appeal on new submissions they have filed.
The accused are challenging a decision made by Chief Justice Anthony Ford in October to allow the Crown to file two additional charges of abetment to a riotous assembly and abetment to the damage of buildings against each of the five accused.
View full story: http://www.pacificmagazine.net/news/2007...l-aug-2008
The trial of five People's Representatives who are charged with sedition been postponed for another nine months to August 2008 reports Matangi Tonga.
The five PRs who were scheduled to appear in the Nuku'alofa Supreme Court next Monday next week, now await a decision by the Court of Appeal on new submissions they have filed.
The accused are challenging a decision made by Chief Justice Anthony Ford in October to allow the Crown to file two additional charges of abetment to a riotous assembly and abetment to the damage of buildings against each of the five accused.
View full story: http://www.pacificmagazine.net/news/2007...l-aug-2008