New Zealand and the Pacific Islands

New Zealand and the Pacific Islands gathers the Chief Justices and senior judges of New Zealand's highest courts alongside the judges of the supreme and appellate courts of the Pacific Island nations, including Fiji, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, Samoa, Tonga, Palau, the Federated States of Micronesia, the Marshall Islands, Nauru and Kiribati. Many Pacific Island judiciaries, small nations without large domestic legal professions of their own, have long drawn on judges trained in New Zealand, Australia and Britain who sit across several island courts over a single career, a pattern distinct from the larger national judiciary Australia's own group in this subcategory carries.