Paul Quinlivan’s Snapshots When I arrived in TPNG, in January 1952, most of the files for the criminal cases I was about to prosecute were missing because a senior law lecturer, resident in Sydney,...
Paul Quinlivan’s Snapshots There are several levels of ‘facts’ in this case. The first is that, on 3 January 1952, Murphy deliberately threw a plate at a Native; the plate hit him in the...
Paul Quinlivan’s Snapshots In the unnumbered Snapshot at the beginning of page 33 of the March 1999 Una Voce, I mentioned that Monte got all the judges to select a ‘notable defence’ for me...
Paul Quinlivan’s Snapshots Kuru was a hideous disease unique to the Fore people of the Kainantu subdistrict and research on it led to breakthroughs which solved many medical problems. So much so that the...
Paul Quinlivan’s Snapshots Obviously, the reason for the rule was that such people lack immunity to coastal diseases but there is an additional reason which explains why Monte was so adamant that the...
Paul Quinlivan’s Snapshots In Snapshot 22 I explained how, just after I arrived back in TPNG in March 1954, I was sent to Samarai. And how, the very day I returned to Moresby from...
Paul Quinlivan’s Snapshots It may sound odd that I, a lawyer who had prosecuted a record number of cases before the Supreme Court and defended over forty there, should say that I was ‘assistant...
Paul Quinlivan’s Snapshots I mentioned in No. 42 that I wrote a lengthy letter to the Crown Law Officer at the end of my second week on this assignment and these passages become important...
Paul Quinlivan’s Snapshots It was not until after Jack Grainger and I had become very interested in Femsep that we located the most important of the police who had brought in the Telefomins convicted...
Paul Quinlivan’s Snapshots As mentioned before, the plan to kill all foreigners in the Telefomin area as soon as the signal was given, involved everyone. The concept of someone not obeying simply could not...
Paul Quinlivan’s Snapshots In No. 25, and in many other Snapshots, I named kiaps whose ‘notable defences’ had been recorded but the only time that I know of where a kiap had to defend...
PNGAA Library: Paul Quinlivan’s Snapshots 46. Suni, a fine example of belief in the rule of law From Sauweni’s account it was clear that Suni was not only completely innocent: he had been a...
Paul Quinlivan’s Snapshots It is easy for many kinds of scientists to take a sample which will show precisely what was the current state of affairs at a given moment in the past. But...
Paul Quinlivan’s Snapshots The mention of ‘former British, Spanish, Dutch or French colonies’ is an essential and recurring background theme because, as mentioned in No. 8, the first ‘business’ of my first day in...
Paul Quinlivan’s Snapshots What I am about to quote is actually the passage, in my Letter Recommending Awards and Decorations, headed Tinkukuniming, uncle of Sinoksep, the interpreter trained by Suni. I do, however, believe...
