All eyes will be on the courts today as the Chief Justice, Salesi Temo, delivers his ruling on the application by lawyer Devanesh Sharma that his clients, the former attorney general and former supervisor of elections, have no case to answer on the charges against them of abuse of office. Grubsheet is reserving further comment until we know the … [Read more...] about # DO AIYAZ SAYED-KHAIYUM AND MOHAMMED SANEEM HAVE A CASE TO ANSWER? SALESI TEMO DELIVERS HIS RULING AT 3.00PM TODAY
# WHEN BEING ACCUSED OF CONSPIRACY AND OBSTRUCTING JUSTICE IS A PREREQUISITE FOR LEADING THE NATION’S LAWYERS
The news that Wylie Clarke has been reappointed President of the Fiji Law Society despite the grave allegations of criminal conduct against him by the Supreme Court Commission of Inquiry says a great deal about the collapse of public standards of conduct in Fiji. It isn't in the least bit surprising because Clarke and the cabal of senior lawyers … [Read more...] about # WHEN BEING ACCUSED OF CONSPIRACY AND OBSTRUCTING JUSTICE IS A PREREQUISITE FOR LEADING THE NATION’S LAWYERS
# THE PRIME MINISTER PREACHES THE VIRTUES OF TRUTH TO THE WORLD YET LIES TO HIS OWN PEOPLE
There's a striking passage in the speech Sitiveni Rabuka made to the UN General Assembly that is definitive proof of the chasm between what he says and what he does and the manner in which he is hoodwinking the Fijian people. And now that he is back from his personally lucrative swing through Solomon Islands, Israel and New York - having pocketed … [Read more...] about # THE PRIME MINISTER PREACHES THE VIRTUES OF TRUTH TO THE WORLD YET LIES TO HIS OWN PEOPLE
# WHAT A WHOPPER! THE ACTING ATTORNEY GENERAL’S TAMANI SIZE LASULASU-JHOOT
Siromi Turaga has his pants around his ankles and they are burning fiercely after he told a bald-faced lie denying that he had flagged the reintroduction of the death penalty for drug traffickers and was immediately exposed by the Fiji Times. It raises serious questions about his suitability to be the Coalition's chief legal advisor, which … [Read more...] about # WHAT A WHOPPER! THE ACTING ATTORNEY GENERAL’S TAMANI SIZE LASULASU-JHOOT
# THE SHOCKING PROSPECT LOOMS OF THE ASHTON-LEWIS COI BEING QUASHED AND BARBARA MALIMALI BEING REINSTATED TO FICAC. (UPDATED SATURDAY AM)
The "crocodiles" who the Prime Minister, Sitiveni Rabuka, wanted cleared from the pond when he commissioned the Supreme Court Judge, Justice David Ashton-Lewis, to carry out his inquiry into the Malimali Affair are poised for victory as the corrupt Chief Justice, Salesi Temo, appoints a High Court judge to hear his own application for a judicial … [Read more...] about # THE SHOCKING PROSPECT LOOMS OF THE ASHTON-LEWIS COI BEING QUASHED AND BARBARA MALIMALI BEING REINSTATED TO FICAC. (UPDATED SATURDAY AM)
# “WHEN AIYAZ SAYED KHAIYUM IS CONVICTED”. THE ASSISTANT DPP CONFIRMS FEARS THAT THE FORMER AG’S TRIAL IS A STITCH-UP (UPDATED FRIDAY AM)
The Chief Justice, Salesi Temo, has been at pains to give the appearance of evenhandedness as he presides over the trial of Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum and Mohammed Saneem for alleged abuse of office, castigating the Acting DPP, Nancy Tikoisuva, in open court over aspects of her prosecution of the case. But it is evidently all a sham. Khaiyum is to be … [Read more...] about # “WHEN AIYAZ SAYED KHAIYUM IS CONVICTED”. THE ASSISTANT DPP CONFIRMS FEARS THAT THE FORMER AG’S TRIAL IS A STITCH-UP (UPDATED FRIDAY AM)