Nauru pays tribute to Justice Nicholas Kirriwom
REPUBLIC OF NAURU
Government Information Office
MEDIA RELEASE
For Immediate Release
Thursday, 15 April, 2021
Nauru pays tribute to Justice
Nicholas Kirriwom
His Excellency President Lionel
Aingimea extended heartfelt sympathies and deepest condolences from
the people and Government of Nauru to the people, Government and
judiciary of Papua New Guinea and the family of the late Justice
Nicholas Kirriwom.
The late Justice Kirriwom was sworn
in as a judge in the Nauru Court of Appeal in 2018 for a tenure of
three years. He was accompanied by a team from PNG to assist with
the new Appeals Court.
He sat on the parliament riot case
known as 'Nauru 19' in April 2019.
Justice Kirriwom's extensive legal
background and legal career began in 1978 as a legal officer in his
native PNG. At the time of his appointment to Nauru's Appeals
Court, Judge Kirriwom was the third most senior on a bench of 44
judges on the Supreme Court and national court of PNG.
He passed away in Port Moresby, PNG
on Monday 12 April 2021.