Articles Tagged: court

Fiji's High Court has sentenced eight men to between seven and three years in jail, for plotting to murder the country's coup leader, and currently-interim-Prime Minister, Commodore Frank Bainimarama.

The sentence imposed by a British judge working for the Tongan Supreme Court has been described as "inhumane" after two criminals were told they were to face to six lashes of the whip.

An alleged assassination plot targeting Fiji coup leader Commodore Voreqe Bainimarama was intended to be timed for the 2007 Christmas holidays, the Fiji High Court has been told.

WELLINGTON, New Zealand — Fiji will appeal its exclusion from the 2010 Commonwealth Games to the Court of Arbitration for Sport in Switzerland.

A High Court judge in Fiji’s interim government who claims she was denied a visa to bring her toddler to New Zealand for medical treatment will arrive with her son in Auckland today. Anjala Wati claims her visa was initially declined because of her seat on the country’s High Court. New Zealand Immigration denied it declined the visa and said last week the that the application was still being assessed. Members of Fiji’s interim government are not allowed entry to New Zealand as part of sanc

We say – Ana Rokomokoti will go down in Fiji’s history books as a human rights violator, coup apologist and beneficiary, and a morally bankrupt Fijian woman who has no shame in aiding and abetting the purportedly abrogation of Fiji’s Supreme Law, the 1997 Constitution. Here is Jagannath Sami’s statement our sources produced revealing his heart wrenching testimonial confirming how the Fiji peoples human rights continue to be trembled on by dictator Frank & Co. FIJI’s INJUSTICE

The former Chief Justice of Fiji, Daniel Fatiaki has been sworn in as a Supreme Court Judge in Vanuatu. A month after the 2006 Fiji coup, the interim regime suspended Mr Fatiaki and he was subsequently charged with a range of misconduct offences while the interim government investigated his alleged involvement in the 2000 coup. He resigned as Fiji’s Chief Justice in December last year in an agreement he would receive a payout of more than 200 thousand Fiji dollars from the interim regime.

THREE Sydney barristers sitting as Fiji's Court of Appeal have found that the 2006 military coup was unconstitutional and have ordered that democracy be restored by holding fresh elections.

By VICTOR LAL The Fiji Court of Appeal ruling which declared the dismissal of Prime Minister Laisenia Qarase as unlawful must be seen, inter alia, as a vote of no confidence in the President Ratu Josefa Iloilo and his legal advisers. In normal circumstances, the President would have been expected to tender his own resignation to the authorities who had appointed him in the first place - the now moribound Great Council of Chiefs. If the President refuses to vacate the “House on the Hill”, than

By VICTOR LAL  The Fiji Court of Appeal judgment which overturned the High Court ruling that the 2006 was lawful could have gone one step further and ruled that the first judgment in October 2008 was flawed because two of the judges, Justices Anthony Gates and Justice Davendra Pathik, should have recused themselves from hearing the case. In the case of Justice Gates, he should have recused himself because his own appointment as acting Chief Justice was under legal challenge and any ruling in t

[UPDATE-- 2:00PM: Events are moving rapidly in Fiji this morning following the Appeal court declarations. FijiLive reporting last night: Fiji effectively has no Prime Minister, no ministers and no Government in place, says interim Prime Minister Commodore Voreqe Bainimarama. Bainimarama made the comment moments ago in a national televised address. He confirmed that the President Ratu Josefa Iloilo will soon make a decision following today’s Court of Appeal ruling that Laisenia Qarase’s

[JURIST] Fijian President Ratu Jossfa Iloilo announced Friday that he was suspending  the country's constitution, and revoking the appointment of all judicial officers, after the Fiji Court of Appeal on Thursday ruled  his appointment of military officer Commodore Josaia Voreqe Bainimarama as Prime Minister unconstitutional. Iloilo had appointed Baininmara following a 2006 coup, but the Court of Appeal ordered him to appoint a civilian replacement for Baininmara until democratic elections could

A FIJI court today ruled the military regime formed after the 2006 military coup was illegal and said a caretaker prime minister should be appointed to call for elections and restore democracy.