A big day for the Papua New Guinea Judicial System as a new Judge of the National and Supreme Courts of Justice was sworn in this morning by the Acting Governor General, His Excellency, Job Pomat, CMG, MP who officiated the swearing in ceremony at the Government House. According to a media statement today, Hon. Justice Derek Wood had been appointed by the Judicial and Legal Services Commission to serve as Judge of the Supreme and National Courts of Justice for a period of three years. His swearing in ceremony witnessed Justice Wood recite the Declaration of Office, Declaration of Loyalty, and Judicial Declaration before the Acting Vice Regal. Meanwhile the swearing in ceremony was attended by judges of the Supreme and National Courts and Chief Justice Gibbs Gibuma Salika.