Announcement: Due to severe weather advisories, the kickoff event for the Supreme Court’s Equitable & Sustainable Futures Speaker Series was postponed from January 30, and has now been rescheduled for... read more

Join us to watch six short documentary films produced by students from ʻIolani School, Kamehameha Schools-Kapālama Campus, Ka ʻUmeke Kāʻeo – PCS, and Molokaʻi High School and listen to them... read more

HONOLULU – Each year, Hawaiʻi residents fulfill their civic duty by serving as jurors in the circuit courts in all counties across the state. Jury service supports one of our... read more

In July, the King Kamehameha V Judiciary History Center (Center) launched a new digital archive providing free public access to resources from its historic collections. This collections portal is made... read more

HONOLULU — On this historic day in 1865, word of the Emancipation Proclamation finally reached Galveston, Texas, marking the end of slavery in the United States. Juneteenth is both a... read more

Lauren Higa, a fifth grader at Maryknoll School, and Navarro Dondur, an eighth grader at Kaimuki Middle School, took the top prizes in this year’s First Circuit Law Day Art... read more

Under the Constitution of the State of Hawaiʻi, Article VI, Appointment of Justices and Judges, Section 3: “The chief justice, with the consent of the senate, shall fill a vacancy... read more

First Circuit (O‘ahu) Specialty Court participants and staff held a community service event at the He‘eia Fishpond in Kāneʻohe. Team members helped preserve the site by moving and stacking rocks... read more

HONOLULU – Lisa M. Ginoza and Vladimir P. Devens were sworn in today as Associate Justices of the Hawaiʻi Supreme Court by Chief Justice Mark E. Recktenwald at Aliʻiōlani Hale.  ... read more

HONOLULU — Hawaiʻi’s second annual Statewide Adult Drug Court Conference drew specialty court staff and partners from across the islands to the Koʻolau Ballrooms & Conference Center in Kāne‘ohe, where... read more