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Unlike the more senior puisne judges, who sit on both the High Court and the Court of Appeal, Masters of the High Court sit only on the High Court. The Master of the High Court's power is prescribed by the High Court Act and Order 59 of the Fijian High Court Rules 1988. The first Master of the High Court of Fiji was Janmai Jay Udit. He was ...
The High Court of Fiji is one of three courts that was established by Chapter 9 of the 1997 Constitution of Fiji — the others being the Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court. The Constitution empowered Parliament to create other courts; these were to be subordinate to the High Court, which was authorized to oversee all proceedings of such courts.
The Court of Appeal is given the right "to hear and determine appeals" from all judgments of the High Court. From time to time, other powers may be assigned to this court by law. The Supreme Court is given exclusive jurisdiction to hear and determine appeals from all final judgments of the Court of Appeal. A case may be brought before the ...
The Pacific Islands Legal Information Institute [1] (PacLII) collects and publishes legal materials from 20 Pacific Islands Countries on its website www.paclii.org.These countries are American Samoa, Cook Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Fiji Islands, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Nauru, Niue, Papua New Guinea, Pitcairn Island, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tokelau, Tonga, Tuvalu, and Vanuatu ...
Fiji maintains an independent judiciary, with judicial power vested in three courts (the High Court, Court of Appeal, and Supreme Court) established by the Constitution, which also makes provision for other courts to be set up by Parliament; Magistrates' Courts have accordingly been set up. The High Court and the Supreme Court are both presided ...
Republic of Fiji Islands v Prasad is a 2001 landmark decision of the Court of Appeal of Fiji which upheld the 1997 Constitution of Fiji in the aftermath of the 2000 Fijian coup d'état. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The court agreed with the previous High Court of Fiji ruling that the constitution had not been overturned and that Parliament had not been ...
The judicial commissioner for the Western Pacific became the chief justice of the High Court of the Western Pacific, and removed from Fiji to join the rest of the British High Commission in the Solomon Islands. The position was separated from that of the chief justice of Fiji. [7] Fiji gained independence on 10 October 1970 as the Dominion of Fiji.
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