Two Senior Lawyers, Tiffany Twivey and Sam Bonner referred

A Supreme Court judge has referred two senior lawyers to the PNG Law Society over their conduct.
This is the same court that had dismissed an application by Police Commissioner Gari Baki to stop two of his officers Fraud Director Matthew Damaru and his deputy Timothy Gitua having access to lawyers.
The matter stems from Damaru and Gitua having obtained a warrant of arrest for Treasury Secretary Dairi Vele from the District Court which was later set aside by consent.
Tiffany Twivey and Sam Bonner were found to have colluded to set aside the bench warrant without notifying the informant.
The informant is Timothy Gitua who is a party to the case and can't be removed.
Justice Nicholas Kirriwom says the two senior lawyers could be guilty of colluding in perverting the course of justice where they filed application in the District Court and signed consent orders setting aside the arrest warrant for Mr Vele early this month.
They removed Gitua's name and replaced it with Royal PNG Constabulary.
The judge questioned if that was standard practice and answered the question himself saying NO.
The judge referred Mr Bonner and Ms Twivey to the Lawyers Statutory Committee for disciplinary action and left the matter to the two detectives to take it further or not.