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In 2025 Pacific Legal Network (PLN) is proud to be celebrating twenty-five years since its establishment. This remarkable milestone is a testament to PLN’s commitment to building enduring relationships, and facilitating and developing true, regional legal collaboration. PLN now spans almost every Pacific small island state from Timor Leste in the West to American Samoa in the East, and just about every Pacific Island nation in between.

In November 2000, John Ridgway leveraged his experience of living and working in the Pacific for nearly a decade to create the Pacific Legal Network (PLN).