(NOTE: this is a High Court case. The High Court is not the highest court in Kiribati (the highest court in Kiribati is the Court of Appeal). Nevertheless, this case can be helpful in deciding where Kiribati courts might go in the future, given the deficit of Court of Appeal cases from Kiribati citing international human rights standards.)

The High Court of Kiribai convicted the defendant of indecent assault. The High Court noted that the CRC must be enacted into domestic legislation for it to have the force of law, and that had not happened. (Presumably, then, the High Court did not feel that it had an obligation to apply the CRC.)

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