Kele'a newspaper

Court dismisses Keleʻa newspaper’s application to transfer defamatory civil proceeding to Supreme Court

Lord Chief Justice Owen G. Paulsen said the argument was without merit.

He ordered that the Magistrate’s Court had to “allocate a hearing date as soon as is reasonably possible.”

Mr Justice Paulsen said the argument by the applicants that “the case can be more effectively dealt with in the Supreme Court is not correct.”