Principal legal officer, Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum says he is shocked at the open letter from the Fiji Law Society where they are attempting to carry notoriety to the Office of the Speaker anyway the Law Society President, Wylie Clarke says they don’t have anything against the Speaker and are requesting the bills to experience public conferences.
While reacting to the Law Society’s open letter approaching parliament to concede banter on two bills in the current parliament meeting, Sayed-Khaiyum says the Law Society has clearly got the law wrong and it sort of annoys him as a couple of legal advisors got together and composed the letter.
In the letter, the Society had said that with deference, to limit matters of such extraordinary public significance to one hour’s Parliamentary discussion (as recommended by the Speaker of the House) would be a genuine disappointment of administration.
Sayed-Khaiyum says the Speaker of Parliament doesn’t settle on the one hour banter time on a bill. He says the movement is put on the floor and that depends on the parliamentary standing requests.
The Minister says the Law Society is hinting that the Speaker has accomplished something incorrectly.
He says the Society isn’t right as Australia and New Zealand have a the jury framework and once you have a jury, the choice or the decision of the jury should be trailed by the courts.
Sayed-Khaiyum says in Fiji, the assessors’ assessment need not be trailed by the adjudicator as it is discretionary.
He says the general purpose is tied in with getting consistency in law.
The Minister says Fiji and Vanuatu are the lone two Pacific island nations that have the assessor framework in High Court criminal preliminaries.
He says there is just a modest bunch of assessors in Fiji – around 30 to 40 assessors that are doing the circuit.
Sayed-Khaiyum says the Law Society has the dauntlessness to say that debasement isn’t so mind boggling and not all that far and wide. He says they should converse with the worldwide offices that manage Fiji on the confirmation of the UN Convention Against Corruption.
He further says that defilement consumes public certainty and sabotages the economy and there should be an accentuation on it by having an Anti Corruption Division in the court framework.
Fiji Law Society President, Wylie Clarke says the point they are making is that one hour’s discussion isn’t sufficient time for issue that are so significant.
He says they are requesting the cautious scrutinisation of the bills for the organization of equity.
-Fiji Village
