Australian law students publish guidelines for Vanuatu authorities

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Updated January 26, 2010 09:41:26

A group of law students from Australia's Melbourne University has been studying ways traditional law and western law can be used in Vanuatu's juvenile justice system. The students spent four weeks in Vanuatu and realised incorporating the country's customary law with British law would be an extremely complex task. However, they were able to produce an international conventions manual for Vanuatu's police, judiciary and correctional services to use.

Presenter: Geraldine Coutts
Speaker: Daniel Coombes, law student, Melbourne University, Australia

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