Leiataualesa Daryl Clarke is a

Samoa Samoa, officially the Independent State of Samoa and known until 1997 as Western Samoa, is an island country in Polynesia, part of Oceania, in the South Pacific Ocean. It consists of two main islands (Savai'i and Upolu), two smaller, inhabited ...

n judge. He has served on the

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since December 2016. Clarke was educated at the

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and the

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. After working for the Australian government he worked as an Assistant Attorney General before entering private practice. In February 2016 he was appointed to the District Court of Samoa. In December 2016 he was appointed to the

. In 2020 he freed a man who had been unlawfully imprisoned for five years beyond the end of his sentence. In January 2021 he took a leave of absence from the Court to study overseas.

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