Law - Vanuatu

Date: 1900-1979

From: Pacific Manuscripts Bureau : Records of the Pacific Area

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-08-1254

Description: Administration records of the court, judgements of the criminal tribunal at Port Vila, decrees and decisions of the Court President; conferences and proceedings; Correspondence in English and French. Source of title - Transcribed Relationship complexity - See also Micro-MS-Coll-08-1145 The Joint Court of the New Hebrides was set up in 1906 under the Condominion of France and Great Britain. The court consisted of a judge from each of the powers under a neutral president, appointed by the King of Spain. The President also appointed the other court officials. Civil and criminal suits between Europeans were tried in the national court of the defendant or accused. The Joint Court tried land cases and civil and criminal cases between Ni-Vanuatua or between Ni-Vanuatua and Europeans, as well as offences against the Convention of the Condominion. The Joint Court was replaced by the Supreme Court of Vanuatu in 1978. Quantity: 17 microfilm reel(s). Finding Aids: See http://rspas.anu.edu.au/pambu/. Printed inventory also available. Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Purchase, PMB, 2006

Date: 1911-1977

From: Pacific Manuscripts Bureau : Records of the Pacific Area

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-08-1145

Description: Judgements issued by the Joint Court of the New Hebrides. Source of title - Transcribed The Joint Court was set up by the Anglo-French Condominium of the New Hebrides in 1906, whereby France and Great Britain agreed to govern the archipelago as an area of joint influence. Its civil and criminal jurisdiction, enhanced by the Anglo-French Protocol of 1914, was over New Hebrideans (ni-Vanuatu), matters involving New Hebrideans and British and/or French citizens, other nationalities who opted to come under the Court's jurisdiction, and in matters between French citizens and British subjects. The Joint Court had one British and one French judge. A neutral president was appointed by the King of Spain until the suspension of the Spanish monarchy in 1930. The powers also had their own national courts, which decided civil and criminal cases where the parties were of the same nationality as the court. The Joint Court was replaced with the Supreme Court of the New Hebrides in 1978, and later the Supreme Court of Vanuatu when the country gained independence as the Republic of Vanuatu in 1980. Quantity: 7 microfilm reel(s). Finding Aids: Inventory available. Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Purchase, PMB, 2001

Date: 1899-1823

From: Australian Joint Copying Project : Miscellaneous Series microfilm

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-20-2338

Description: Complete autobiographical manuscript, and various letters and other miscellaneous material, concerning Jacomb's life in Australia and the New Hebrides as a lawyer Source of title - Transcribed Other Titles - Successful failure Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s). Finding Aids: Inventory available. Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Purchase, AJCP, 1990