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Supreme Court of Tonga Decisions

A PacLII database containing decisions of the Supreme Court of Tonga from 1986 onwards. Cases can be browsed by name or year, and there is a search facility. PacLII, the Pacific Islands Legal Information Institute, provides free access to legislation and cases for jurisdictions in the South Pacific. It is a joint initiative involving the University of the South Pacific and the Australasian Legal Information Institute.

Constitution of Tonga

Online version of the 1875 Constitution of Tonga (amended up to 1988) on PacLII, the Pacific Islands Legal Information Institute website. PacLII is a joint initiative involving the University of the South Pacific and the Australasian Legal Information Institute.

Pacific Legal Gateway

The Pacific Legal Gateway is a PacLII project providing access to Pacific legal material. Its regional law collections include cases from the High Court of the Western Pacific, an index to Pacific islands cases published in Law Reports of the Commonwealth between 1980 and 2003, other cases from the region, and Western Pacific legislation 1884 to 1925. The gateway also includes several journals, a bibliography of law in the Pacific, details of law-related conferences and networks, links to legal news sources, legal dictionaries and other content.

Tongan Legislation

Current revised edition of the Laws of Tonga (primary and secondary), provided by the Attorney General's Office (AGO), together with bills, the official gazette and a collection of acts that are no longer in force, all in both English and Tongan. The website also includes a collection of cases from the Supreme Court, Court of Appeal, Magistrates Court, Privy Council and other courts and tribunals, accompanied by a consolidated index of Tongan cases.

Introduction to researching South Pacific law

Online guide to South Pacific law written by Peter Murgatroyd who is Information Resource Centre Manager at the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) and Coordinator of the Pacific Environment Information Network (PEIN). The guide was published in 2006 (and updated in 2022) on the Globalex website and made freely available by the Hauser Global Law School at the New York University School of Law.

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