GREG SHEPPARD CONFIRMED AS PRIME MINISTER'S NEW LAWYER

PNG NEWS

Greg Sheppard, Managing Partner of Young & Williams, is confirmed to be the Prime Minister's new lawyer. Court records reaffirm that Sheppard's law firm now represents the PM's current case against the Public Prosecutor.

Prime Minister has four cases on foot before the courts - three before the National Court & one in the Supreme Court;

1) National Court OS 444 of 2014 is the Judicial Review challenging the validity of the arrest warrant issued by the District Court;.

2) National Court OS 383 of 2014 Judicial Review challenging the powers of the Ombudsman Commission;

3) National Court OS 810 of 2014 Judicial Review challenging the powers of the Public Prosecutor;

4) Supreme Court Appeal SCA 87 of 2014 challenging the decision of the National Court, Justice Kariko's ruling in July which dismissed the PM's application to stay his arrest warrant;

Greg Sheppard is one of the most successful and prominent lawyers in the Country. He became the Managing Partner of Maladina's law firm in 1994, and continued in that role after the merger of Maladina's with Young & Williams Lawyers in 2004.

Sheppard was admitted as a Barrister and Solicitor in the Supreme Court of Western Australia in 1990. He was a Principal in private practice in Kalgoorlie, Western Australia for a number of years.
Thereafter, he practised as a Crown Prosecutor in Queensland, Australia and was admitted to the High Court of Australia and the Supreme Court of Queensland. He was admitted to practice law in Papua New Guinea in 1990.

Sheppard is also a very successful advocate and has appeared as Counsel before Courts and Tribunals at all levels in a variety of jurisdictions including Judicial Review Appellate Courts. He has previously appeared for influential clients in Leadership Tribunal hearings on many occasions.
It is understood that Sheppard's law firm has briefed out the PM's case to Brisbane based Queens Council (QC) Barrister Mal Varitimos.

It is common practice for law firms to brief out high profile cases to more experienced overseas lawyers or barristers retaining them for specialist legal advice.

Varitimos has considerable experience and expertise in a diverse range of matters throughout the Asia-Pacific Region. He has been retained to advise in relation to matters in eight countries in the Asia-Pacific Region and has appeared in several of these countries, including for Prime Ministers, Deputy Prime Ministers and multinational corporations.

QC Varitimos also has extensive experience appearing in major Royal Commissions and Commissions of Inquiries which include:

- Engagement of Sandline International;

- Transparency in Government Dealings and Accountability of Public Office Holders

- National Provident Fund in Papua New Guinea

- Sinking of the Rabaul Queen;

Bryan Kramer first broke the story on Sheppard, now acting for the Prime Minister, on social media on the 11th of December 2014, but later retracted his story after Tiffany Twivey disputed it to be false.

Tiffany Twivey stated at the time "Greg Shepherd is NOT representing PM in any matter Young and Williams have been representing the Police Commissioner in all the matters this year !!!!!!!!"
Bryan Kramer explained in a separate post after he retracted the initial article that he had to first reconfirm the facts which is now proved beyond doubt as per official court records.
"It's important to always report the facts and at the time I wasn't able to reconfirm from my sources after Tiffany Twivey categorically denied it. I had no reason not to believe her so I retracted my article. However the Court records have since confirmed that Greg Sheppard does in fact represent the PM”, Bryan Kramer said.

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