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State Societyand Governancein Melanesia
View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk brought to you by CORE provided by The Australian National University Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies State, Society and Governance in Melanesia StateSociety and in Governance Melanesia DISCUSSION PAPER Discussion Paper 2008/10 COURTS AND COUPS IN FIJI: THE 2008 HIGH COURT JUDGMENT IN QARASE V BAINIMARAMA INTRODUCTION not provided for in the constitution, and that GEORGE ‘exceptional circumstances existed’ because WILLIAMS On 21st October 2008, the State, Society ‘the stability of the State was endangered’. & Governance in Melanesia Program held a The decision effectively legitimised the interim GRAHAM workshop entitled Courts and Coups; Fiji’s government that had emerged in the wake of LEUNG October 2008 High Court Judgment in the Fiji’s December 5 2006 military coup. Qarase v Bainimarama Case. This brought together George Williams, the Anthony In the first of the four papers included ANTHONY J. Mason Professor in the Faculty of Law at here, Professor George Williams, who REGAN the University of New South Wales, Graham served as Counsel in the 2001 Chandrika Leung, the Managing Partner of Howards Prasad case - which ruled the government JON Lawyers in Suva, as well as Anthony Regan that arose after Fiji’s 2000 coup to be illegal FRAENKEL and Jon Fraenkel from the State, Society - discusses the precedents set by that earlier & Governance in Melanesia Program at case, and how these were dealt with by the ANU. The meeting was chaired by Duncan Fiji judges in 2008. In the second paper, Kerr, Australia’s Parliamentary Secretary for Graham Leung, a lawyer who practises in Fiji Pacific Affairs. -
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ACP-EU JOINT PARLIAMENTARY ASSEMBLY BUREAU 17 September 2012 REPORT OF THE FACT-FINDING MISSION OF THE ACP-EU JPA BUREAU TO FIJI 22 TO 24 JULY 2012 Musikari KOMBO, EGH, MP (Kenya), Co-President, Head of Delegation Michèle RIVASI, MEP (Greens/EFA, France), Vice-President and Co-President a.i, Head of Delegation and Lenata‟i Victor Faafoi TAMAPUA (Samoa), Vice-President Benedict Glen NOEL (Grenada), Vice-President Frank ENGEL, MEP (EPP, Luxembourg), Member CR\913035EN.doc AP101.253/BUR EN 1 EN Introduction At its meeting of 27 May 2012, the Bureau of the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly decided to send a fact-find mission to Fiji to assess the progress made by the authorities to return the country to constitutional order and parliamentary democracy. The mission was undertaken from 22 to 24 July 2012 and held extensive and open discussions with Government Representatives and a wide range of political stakeholders, leaders of Political Parties and the two previous Prime Ministers, as well as civil society and non-state actor representatives. Brief historical background to the current Fiji political crisis The current political crisis in Fiji can be traced back to the ethnic make-up of the population, which is divided between indigenous Fijians and Indo-Fijians (the descendants of indentured labourers brought from India a century ago). At independence, Indo-Fijians were roughly 51% of the population until the mid-2000s, by which time political issues had prompted thousands of Indo-Fijians to leave the country. They currently make up 39% of the population. For 17 years after independence from British rule in 1970, the country was relatively stable until Colonel Sitiveni Rabuka‟s 1987 coup against an Indo-Fijian dominated government. -
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____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Speech by Razim Buksh, Director - Financial Intelligence Unit, at the Joint Symposium held at the Reserve Bank of Fiji on 11 December 2014 Unmasking Corporate Secrecy in Transnational Financial Crime. THE SCHOOL OF LAW OF THE UNIVERSITY OF FIJI IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE FIJI LAW SOCIETY AND THE RESERVE BANK OF FIJI A. Introduction Bula Vinaka and good morning. I am indeed very pleased to be invited to speak and be part of the joint symposium on such an important topic. Corporate secrecy and financial crimes are two united and interlinked issues that both need to be unmasked or rather divorced from their de facto relationship. The global community that is tasked to protect and police the financial and commerce world is beginning to realize and understand the dangerousness of corporate secrecy and its abuse as a weapon of mass financial fraud. The FIU estimates that $100million of illicit money flows annually through Fiji’s financial system. More than one third of this is suspected to be linked to tax evasion, while the remainder suggests tainted funds linked to corruption, fraud, money laundering, unexplained wealth, cyber fraud, drug trafficking and other serious financial crimes. According to reports published by the UNODC in 2009, it is estimated that US$2.1 Trillion is laundered annually through the global financial system. Fiji has a long history of financial crimes. The collapse of the National Bank of Fiji in the 1990s triggered a national concern and the biggest ever financial crime investigation. Customers of the National Bank of Fiji, both individuals and corporate clients, had a field day “looting” millions of dollars out of the National Bank of Fiji’s lending portfolio. -
Criminal Causelist Monday – 29/03/21 Suva Magistrate's Court No. 1 at 9.30Am
CRIMINAL CAUSELIST MONDAY – 29/03/21 SUVA MAGISTRATE’S COURT NO. 1 AT 9.30AM Parties Case No. Offence MENTION 1. State against Jesoni Takuca 285/20 Absconding Bail 2. State against Jesoni Tukuca 718/17 Theft 3. State against Savenaca Lewatabe [Ba] 106/20 Disobedience Of Lawful Order 4. State against Taione Lesumaisolomone [Lakeba] 65/20 Absconding Bail 5. State against Taione Lesumaisolomone [Lakeba] 30/18 Indecent Assault 6. State against Amol Chand 1601/11 Obtaining Financial Advantage By Deception 7. State against Peniasi Vata [Lautoka] 293/21 Theft 8. State against Sakeasi Lotawa [Ba] 96/21 Assault Causing Actual Bodily Harm 9. State against Jitendra Kumar [Tavua] 206/20 Failure To Comply With Orders 10. State against Timaleti Utovou 404/21 Absconding Bail RETURNABLE 11. State against Mikaele Valesi Kovelotu [Rotuma] 2/18 Criminal Trespass 12. State against Timaima Tawake 154/17 Theft 13. State against Irami Namataga EJ 13/15 Aggravated Burglary Theft CRIMINAL CAUSELIST MONDAY – 29/03/21 SUVA MAGISTRATE’S COURT NO. 2 AT 9.30AM Parties Case No. Offence MENTION 1. State against Ritesh Prasad 377/21 Theft 2. State against Onisimo Tokalaulevu 342/21 Failure To Comply With Orders 3. MOH against Foods (Pacific) Pte Limited 126/20 Prohibited Claim 4. State against Pio Penaia Nawaqavuli 166/21 Burglary Theft 5. State against Jack Edward Hiramatsu 1206/19 Forgery Adi Mara Rufina Qaranivalu Using Forged Documents Melikiseteki Wara Obtaining Financial Advantage By Deception Seini Pece Tadulala 6. State against Sylvia Kuar Sing 1433/18 Assault Causing Actual Bodily Harm 7. State against Anita Reddy 1702/18 Theft REVIEW 8. -
Is Fiji Ready for a Free Press
VOLUME 17. No.1I/MAY, 2012 ISSN 1029-7316 Pageant scrutiny by EDWARD TAVANAVANUA and PARIJATA GURDAYAL scheduled for the panel to view and assess the contestants. Hoerder, who has experience as HE Miss World Fiji 2012 Pageant is under a Miss Hibiscus judge, said the fact that they scrutiny following a plethora of allegations, only had one meeting with the contestants including that the winner was pre-deter- T was extremely irregular. The assessment also mined well before the judging panel deliberated. was confined to their life story or experiences. Although the pageant concluded about two Blake has since confirmed in a press state- weeks ago, the Miss World Organisation has ment that no judging criteria or points system yet to add the winner of the Fiji franchise, was used to judge the contestants. Torika Watters, to the list of winners on its official “If you are asked to be a judge for Miss World, website. The organisation has yet to respond to then you should come with the mindset of hear- queries e-mailed to it last week. Extra ing genuine stories and not with the expecta- Fiji franchise director Andhy Blake refused requests tions of age, point’s tabulation,” he said. yards for an in-person interview. When asked over the phone He added that based on this fact that no judging whether Watters had been accepted into the interna- or points system was employed, any allegations of pay off tional competition, he said “it’s a surprise”. judging being rigged are false. He also declined to comment on whether the funds “I gave my own personal opin- raised from a charity ball, which was held to create ions on whoever I saw fitting for awareness on mental health, had been given to St Giles the title without influencing the Hospital. -
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http://researchspace.auckland.ac.nz ResearchSpace@Auckland Copyright Statement The digital copy of this thesis is protected by the Copyright Act 1994 (New Zealand). This thesis may be consulted by you, provided you comply with the provisions of the Act and the following conditions of use: • Any use you make of these documents or images must be for research or private study purposes only, and you may not make them available to any other person. • Authors control the copyright of their thesis. You will recognise the author's right to be identified as the author of this thesis, and due acknowledgement will be made to the author where appropriate. • You will obtain the author's permission before publishing any material from their thesis. To request permissions please use the Feedback form on our webpage. http://researchspace.auckland.ac.nz/feedback General copyright and disclaimer In addition to the above conditions, authors give their consent for the digital copy of their work to be used subject to the conditions specified on the Library Thesis Consent Form and Deposit Licence. CONNECTING IDENTITIES AND RELATIONSHIPS THROUGH INDIGENOUS EPISTEMOLOGY: THE SOLOMONI OF FIJI ESETA MATEIVITI-TULAVU A thesis in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY The University of Auckland Auckland, New Zealand 2013 TABLE OF CONTENTS Abstract .................................................................................................................................. vi Dedication ............................................................................................................................ -
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[2007] FJHC 147; HBC 315J.2003S (18 May 2007)
Mataitoga v Native Land Trust Board [2007] FJHC 147; HBC 315J.2003S (18 May 2007) IN THE HIGH COURT OF FIJI AT SUVA CIVIL JURISDICTION CIVIL ACTION NO. HBC 315J OF 2003S BETWEEN: BULOU VILISI MATAITOGA of Lot 6 Ivitavaya Road, Laucala Beach Estate, Civil Servant. (1ST PLAINTIFF) BULOU ELENOA QALOMAIWASA of Lot 23 Kinova Road, Kinoya, Domestic Duties. (2ND PLAINTIFF) BULOU AMALAINI QALOMAIWASA of Lot 94 Waila Housing, Nausori, Civil Servant. (3RD PLAINTIFF) BULOU OLIVIA MATANISIGA of Vuda, Veiseisei, Receptionist, Tanoa Hotel, Nadi. (4TH PLAINTIFF) BULOU SULUETI MATAI of Waisalima, Nakasaleka, Kadavu, Domestic Duties. (5TH PLAINTIFF) BULOU ALISI VAVAILAGI of Vuci Road, Nausori, Domestic Duties. (6TH PLAINTIFF) AND: NATIVE LAND TRUST BOARD a statutory body that is established under the Native Land Trust Act Cap. 134 (1ST DEFENDANT) NUKUBALAVU BEACH ESTATES LIMITED a locally registered company. That deals with the subdivision and Sale of Land (2ND DEFENDANT) Counsel for the Plaintiffs: T. Fa: Tevita Fa & Assoc. Counsel for the 1st Defendant: P. Dalituicama: NLTB Legal Division Counsel for the 2nd Defendant: P. Knight: Cromptons Date of Judgment: 18 May, 2007 Time of Judgment: 9.30 a. m. JUDGMENT The Plaintiff are six (6) sisters in all and daughters of Ratu Inoke Qalomaiwasa No.1, Turaga ni Yavusa and Mataqali Lomanikoro, of Nakasaleka in Kadavu. Ratu Inoke Qalomaiwasa since deceased was the agnate descendant of Ratu Napolioni Qaranivalu, the owner of an area of native land of 214 acres Known as Waisalima, being Lot 53 on Native Land Commission Sheet reference No: P/13-3. The whole area, according to the Native Lands Commission ("NLC"), was reserved to the owners at the Reserve Commission sitting at Nakasaleka in 1961. -
Govt Investment Brings Better Teaching Experience
WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 6, 2019 l 16 PAGES l ISSUE 22 VOL 10 l WWW.FIJI.GOV.FJ j Fijij FocusDISCIPLINED TOP FIJIAN ENVOY TELLS SERVICES OF EDUCATION REMEMBER FALLEN 6 EMPOWERMENT SAVING 12 DAYLIGHT NOV 10, 2019 COMRADES Govt investment brings better teaching experience Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama with Nabukaluka District School students after opening the newly-built teacher’s quarters in Naitasiri. Photo: EMI KOROITANOA EDUCATION EMI KOROITANOA their own well-being, teachers can focus on The Head of Government said an unprece- maritime regions as their facilities –includ- REVOLUTIONtheir work in the classroom,” he said. dented $13.8 million has been allocated to- ing teachers’ quarters – were noticeably HE education revolution in Fiji is on Prime Minister Bainimarama, while open- wards location allowances for primary and shabbier than schools in urban areas,” PM track as the Government continues ing the newly-built teacher’s quarters at secondary teachers in remote areas. Bainimarama said. Tto invest in infrastructure to improve Nabukaluka District School in Naitasiri In the current budget cycle, Fijian Govern- “On top of that, the allowance we paid to not just learning but the teaching experi- recently, said those days of poor working ment has included early childhood educa- remote teachers was much lower than to- ence as well. conditions have been brought to an end by tion (ECE) teachers in the initiative for the day. As a result, life was made unduly dif- This as Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimara- Fijian Government. first time with an allocation of $500,000 for ficult for rural teachers and the top teaching ma opened a series of teachers’ quarters in This new energy, he said, will be felt by their location allowances. -
Melanesia in Review: Issues and Events, 2002
Melanesia in Review: Issues and Events, 2002 Reviews of West Papua and Solomon mined, circumvented and ignored by Islands are not included in this issue. the highest in the land including those who were sworn in to uphold it” Fiji (Times, 19 May, 10). During the final The political and economic highlights months of 2002, the Fiji Labour Party in Fiji in 2002 have again brought and some quasi-political civil society into sharp focus a lesson painfully movements like the Citizens Constitu- learned after the 1987 military coups: tional Forum (ccf) questioned why it takes years to recover from the neg- some members of Parliament had been ative ramifications of any national permitted to continue serving in Prime political upheaval. The economic and Minister Qarase’s cabinet despite sociopolitical fallout of the May 2000 videotaped evidence of their close civilian coup in Fiji continued to involvement in the May 2000 civilian impact major events in both the uprising. The extensive video footage politico-legal and economic domains of siege activities at the Veiuto Parlia- of the nation during the year. The mentary Complex emerged during the path to economic recovery and socio- first treason trial of Josefa Nata and political normalcy was generally shaky Timoci Silatolu, which commenced on and fraught with difficulties. The local 26 November and featured deposed tabloids regularly featured major Prime Minister Mahendra Chaudhry scams within the civil service, exacer- as a key state witness (Post, 27 Nov, bated by gross fiscal mismanagement 2; Times, 29 Nov, 1). Following the by the state and a general lack of 14 November conviction of fifteen political goodwill between the major former Counter Revolutionary War- political parties—the ruling Soqosoqo fare Unit soldiers who had been found Duavata ni Lewenivanua (sdl) and guilty of the November 2000 mutiny the opposition Fiji Labour Party (flp). -
Indigenous Itaukei Worldview Prepared by Dr
Indigenous iTaukei Worldview Prepared by Dr. Tarisi Vunidilo Illustration by Cecelia Faumuina Author Dr Tarisi Vunidilo Tarisi is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo, where she teaches courses on Indigenous museology and heritage management. Her current area of research is museology, repatriation and Indigenous knowledge and language revitalization. Tarisi Vunidilo is originally from Fiji. Her father, Navitalai Sorovi and mother, Mereseini Sorovi are both from the island of Kadavu, Southern Fiji. Tarisi was born and educated in Suva. Front image caption & credit Name: Drua Description: This is a model of a Fijian drua, a double hulled sailing canoe. The Fijian drua was the largest and finest ocean-going vessel which could range up to 100 feet in length. They were made by highly skilled hereditary canoe builders and other specialist’s makers for the woven sail, coconut fibre sennit rope and paddles. Credit: Commissioned and made by Alex Kennedy 2002, collection of Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, FE011790. Link: https://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/object/648912 Page | 2 Table of Contents INTRODUCTION ....................................................................................................................................... 4 SECTION 2: PREHISTORY OF FIJI .............................................................................................................. 5 SECTION 3: ITAUKEI SOCIAL STRUCTURE ............................................................................................... -
Fijian Women – Key Providers to Sustainable Development Goals (A Case Study of the University of Fiji)
Contemporary Research in Education and English Language Teaching ISSN: 2641-0230 Vol. 2, No. 1, pp. 1-15 2020 Publisher: Learning Gate DOI: 10.33094/26410230.2020.21.1.15 © 2020 by the authors; licensee Learning Gate Fijian Women – Key Providers to Sustainable Development Goals (A Case Study of the University of Fiji) Manpreet Kaur Academic and Professional Qualifications: Master of Arts in English – The University of Fiji, Fiji. Email: [email protected] Sanjaleen Prasad Academic and Professional Qualifications: Master of Arts in English – The University of Fiji, Fiji. Email: [email protected] Received: 19 August 2020; Revised: 21 September 2020; Accepted: 13 October 2020; Published: 28 October 2020 Abstract: Fijian women continue to engage in decisive roles in the fields of economic and social development of Fijian society through paid employment services in the various sectors of the economy. In light of the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) and Fiji’s commitment to Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), striving a balance in the three pillars of SDG namely economic, environment and social is fundamental in achieving sustainability and overall growth of the country. However, with the growing concerns of gender equality across the globe, it is imperative than ever to sustain the growth of Fijian women through education, capacity building, improved healthcare, equal job opportunities and women participation and representation at national levels for decision making processes. Hence, this paper aims to investigate the various roles played by women workforce at The University of Fiji and their contributions towards sustainable development of women. The paper further examines the prospects of development and growth as well as challenges impeding Fijian women at The University of Fiji in realizing their potential to effectively and intensely contribute towards the growth of the country. -
Hybrid Constitutional Courts: Foreign Judges on National Constitutional Courts
Hybrid Constitutional Courts: Foreign Judges on National Constitutional Courts ROSALIND DIXON* & VICKI JACKSON** Foreign judges play an important role in deciding constitutional cases in the appellate courts of a range of countries. Comparative constitutional scholars, however, have to date paid limited attention to the phenomenon of “hybrid” constitutional courts staffed by a mix of local and foreign judges. This Article ad- dresses this gap in comparative constitutional schol- arship by providing a general framework for under- standing the potential advantages and disadvantages of hybrid models of constitutional justice, as well as the factors likely to inform the trade-off between these competing factors. Building on prior work by the au- thors on “outsider” models of constitutional interpre- tation, it suggests that the hybrid constitutional mod- el’s attractiveness may depend on answers to the following questions: Why are foreign judges appoint- ed to constitutional courts—for what historical and functional reasons? What degree of local democratic support exists for their appointment? Who are the foreign judges, where are they from, what are their backgrounds, and what personal characteristics of wisdom and prudence do they possess? By what means are they appointed and paid, and how are their terms in office structured? How do the foreign judges approach their adjudicatory role? When do foreign * Professor of Law, UNSW Sydney. ** Thurgood Marshall Professor of Constitutional Law, Harvard Law School. The authors thank Anna Dziedzic, Mark Graber, Bert Huang, David Feldman, Heinz Klug, Andrew Li, Joseph Marko, Sir Anthony Mason, Will Partlett, Iddo Porat, Theunis Roux, Amelia Simpson, Scott Stephenson, Adrienne Stone, Mark Tushnet, and Simon Young for extremely helpful comments on prior versions of the paper, and Libby Bova, Alisha Jarwala, Amelia Loughland, Brigid McManus, Lachlan Peake, Andrew Roberts, and Melissa Vogt for outstanding research assistance.