Papua New Guinea Fire Services (PNGFS)

Court Dismisses Fire Fighters’ Appeal

The aggrieved fire fighters commenced proceedings against the PNGFS and the State in 2015 in the National Court claiming entitlements for losses suffered and damages.

The aggrieved party had wanted the National Court to find PNGFS to be in breach of two memoranda agreements dated 1994 and 2005 thus denying them their entitlements.

But the case was thrown out in 2017, when the National Court found it having no cause of action and that the proceeding was an abuse to the court process.