{"id":47843,"date":"2022-08-26T12:52:41","date_gmt":"2022-08-26T03:52:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/26\/court-lashes-kiribati-government-over-treatment-of-australian-born-judge"},"modified":"2022-08-26T12:52:41","modified_gmt":"2022-08-26T03:52:41","slug":"court-lashes-kiribati-government-over-treatment-of-australian-born-judge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=47843","title":{"rendered":"Court lashes Kiribati government over treatment of Australian-born judge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kiribati\u2019s court of appeal said government\u2019s latest bid to deport high court justice David Lambourne on national security grounds was \u2018far-fetched\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Kiribati\u2019s constitutional crisis is no closer to resolution, with the country\u2019s court of appeal criticising the government for its conduct towards suspended high court judge David Lambourne, an Australian citizen.<\/p>\n<p>In an extraordinary judgment on Friday, the appeals court \u2013 consisting of three retired New Zealand judges \u2013 upheld an earlier decision that had found <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/nov\/20\/kiribatis-attempts-to-keep-stranded-australian-judge-out-of-the-country-ruled-unconstitutional\">efforts to undermine Lambourne\u2019s tenure unconstitutional<\/a>. Lambourne is a longtime resident of Kiribati and formerly the nation\u2019s solicitor general. His wife, Tessie Lambourne, is the opposition leader.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/26\/court-lashes-kiribati-government-over-treatment-of-australian-born-judge\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kiribati\u2019s court of appeal said government\u2019s latest bid to deport high court justice David Lambourne on national security grounds was \u2018far-fetched\u2019Kiribati\u2019s constitutional crisis is no closer to resolution, with the country\u2019s court of appeal criticisi&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2323,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,43,591,874],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-australia-news","category-kiribati","category-pacific-islands"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2323"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47843"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47843\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47844,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47843\/revisions\/47844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}