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The sad death of Fiji’s 1997 Constitution
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The sad death of Fiji’s 1997 Constitution
Fiji’s 1997 Constitution is no more. The Supreme Court’s opinion of 29 August has effectively buried that foundational law. Judges were given little choice. They were asked by government to deliberate on matters under the 2013 Constitution (Section 91(5)), a reference which only made sense if that later 2013 Constitution was operative. That was the source of their jurisdiction. Without that, they had no powers to act. Section 91 allowed the gove…
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