"That Vanuatu’s way out of [its] corruption conundrum may be the constitutional technicality of whether a pardon occurs before or after sentencing may indicate the need for further legal reforms and broader anticorruption efforts—something that would require the corruption-prone parliament’s cooperation. That constraint indicates that there are limits to the judiciary’s effectiveness in the anticorruption battle. Still, even if the courts in the Pacific Islands can’t be revolutionary, Vanuatu shows that there is hope for them to be at least a bulwark against the further spread of corruption."
More from Katie King, in the Global Anticorruption Blog. http://globalanticorruptionblog.com/2015/12/18/order-from-the-court-judiciaries-as-a-bulwark-against-legislative-corruption-in-vanuatu/
