Justice Ambeng Kandakasi
was appointed as a
judge of the Supreme and National Court of Justice of Papua New Guinea on the 1st of
November 2001. Just before his appointment he was a partner of a well and long
established firm in Papua New Guinea of Young & Williams since October 1996
concentrating on a civil practice after a year of being a senior associate. He started his
employment with the firm in January 1991.
Prior to entering the
private legal practice life, he taught at the University of Papua New Guinea for the whole
of 1988, the first half of 1989 and the second half of 1990. The break was on
account of him undertaking postgraduate studies at the University of San Diego, USA, from
where he graduated with a Master of Laws degree in 1990.
His other formal and professional
qualifications include a Bachelor of Laws Degree (LLB) from the University of Papua New
Guinea. That was followed by a certificate of completion of post graduate legal
training from the Legal Training Institute of Papua New Guinea, which is a pre-requisite
to admission to the PNG legal bar and the practice of law in PNG. He was admitted to
practice as a lawyer in November of 1989.
Presently he is the
Chairman of the Judicial Committee on Alternative Dispute Resolution (“ADR”).
He is actively behind the drafting of appropriate rules and hence a system for ADR
in PNG.
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