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Barbara Damas believes she came within minutes of being abducted, raped, and murdered by Derek Percy as she played with her dog on Double Bay Beach, Sydney, in early 1969.

The battle in Kiribati between the government and an Australian-born High Court justice has caused a constitutional crisis, drawing attention to the role and vulnerabilities of foreign judges in the Pacific — and there's a lot of them. So why does the region still have so many serving on its high courts?

Judge David Lambourne said the decision was ‘devastating assault on the rule of law’ in Kiribati