PUBLIC NOTICE OF DELAY IN RULING PUBLICATION
Justice Nat - High Court of the South Pacific

The new Standards for Case Management require that official notice be posted if it will take longer than fourteen days to publish a ruling. The deadline for this case falls on Saturday 11 July 2020. Internal discussions and consideration of amicus curiae briefs have lead to an extensive re-write of the draft opinion, causing a delay. Additionally, family commitments mean that Justice Nat will be unavailable over this coming weekend to finalise the draft opinion. This notice provides that the publication of the ruling may be delayed by up to seven days, such that the new deadline for publication will be Saturday 18 July 2020. In accordance with the Standards for Case Management, Justice Griffindor has signed off on this extension.