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Nmalamuwomu v. Shadrack
Procedural history
Services Party) challenged the election of First Respondent Shadrack (candidate for the Leaders Party of Vanuatu
- Question Presented
- Whether the filing deadline for an election petition alleging vote buying made up to and on polling day runs for 21 days after the alleged payment,, or 21 days after the election result is released in the Official Gazette?.
- Legal Issue(s)
- Deadline(s)
- Disputing Results
- Electoral Integrity
- Country
- Vanuatu
- Date of decision
- Jun 24, 2020
- Date added
- Jan 31, 2024
Judgment
Barthelemy v. President of the Republic of Vanuatu
Procedural history
respectively) alleging that the dissolution breached their rights as MPs under the Constitution of Vanuatu
- Question Presented
- (1) Was the Council of Minister’s advice to the President to dissolve Parliament while there was a pending motion of no confidence by members of parliament a violation of the Constitution? (2) If so, was the dissolution of parliament by President void? (3) Does the Supreme Court have jurisdiction to hear constitutional writ petitions relating to the dissolution of parliament?
- Legal Issue(s)
- Conflict of Interests
- Improper Practices
- Country
- Vanuatu
- Date of decision
- Sep 9, 2022
- Date added
- Jan 31, 2024
Judgment
Lessons on Disinformation and Election Disputes
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37.
30
Op. cit., UNHCR Special Rapporteur p. 11.
31
For instance, Vanuatu and Tonga adopted new criminal defamation laws in 2021, contrary to good
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- Legal Issue and/or Topic
- Election Dispute Resolution
- Judicial Independence
- Legal Frameworks
- Language
- English
- Date added
- Nov 7, 2023
Resources
Manuel de Capitalisation des Bonnes Pratiques en Matière de Contentieux Électoral dans l'Espace Francophone
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Tomé-et-Principe • Sénégal • Seychelles •
Suisse • Tchad • Togo • Tunisie • Vanuatu • Vietnam • Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles
26 observateurs
Argentine • Autriche • Bosnie-Herzégovine
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- Legal Issue and/or Topic
- Election Dispute Resolution
- Language
- French
- Date added
- Dec 22, 2021
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Human Rights in the Administration of Justice: A Manual on Human Rights for Judges, Prosecutors, and Lawyers
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children born out of wedlock” in Bulgaria.17
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14 See e.g. as to Vanuatu, in UN doc. CRC/C/90, Report on the twenty-second session (1999), para
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- Legal Issue and/or Topic
- Election Dispute Resolution
- Language
- English
- Portuguese
- Date added
- Jul 17, 2020
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Bangladesh 16th amendment ruling
Document contents
Cyprus,
Mozambique,
Namibia,
Nigeria, Rwanda, Pakistan, Swaziland, Tonga
and Vanuatu.
(d)
In
two
holding
further
certain
jurisdictions,
senior
Judges
positions
- Question Presented
- Does the 16th amendment, which allows the legislature to remove Supreme Court justices on grounds of incapacity or misconduct, violate the Constitution?
- Legal Issue(s)
- EMB Independence
- Judicial Independence
- Country
- Bangladesh
- Language of Decision
- English
- Date of decision
- Jul 3, 2017
- Date added
- Jul 8, 2019
Judgment
Electoral Justice: The International IDEA Handbook
Document contents
Uzbekistan and Vanuatu are entrusted to the Supreme Court
– in Japan and Kyrgyzstan on appeal but in South Korea, Uzbekistan and
Vanuatu directly.
176.
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- Legal Issue and/or Topic
- Election Dispute Resolution
- Language
- English
- Date added
- Jul 2, 2019
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James v. Speaker of the House of Assembly
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to be that, this does not
arise based on the Court of Appeal of Vanuatu in the Korman –v- Natapei24 case, that in
circumstances such as this, where
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- Legal Issue and/or Topic
- Election Annulments
- Election Dispute Resolution
- Regional Jurisprudence
- Language
- English
- Date added
- Jun 20, 2019
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