While closing the Legal Aid Commission Annual National Corporate Staff Workshop at the International Resort and Spa yesterday, Mr Sayed-Khaiyum explained the need for accessible legal services across the country. “We have the largest network of services across Fiji,” he said. More details in to...
High Court in Suva judge Justice Thushara Rajasinghe advised a farmer who allegedly broke into the house of the Speaker of Parliament on Bau Island to engage the services of the Legal Aid Commission. Ratu Jone Latianara appeared before Justice Rajasinghe yesterday charged with one count of aggr...
So it’s not that the court sits every day or that I have to shift to Fiji. When it is necessary and there are a good number of cases then they will have a session, unlike here. It is then that I am required to go to Fiji for three weeks. The other difference is that in ...
Prior to 2007, people in the Northern Division who sought the services offered by the Legal Aid Commission had to travel all the way to Labasa to access these. While speaking at the event, Bainimarama assured members of the public that government would continue striving to bring services closer...
Ryanair launched legal action against the commission on the grounds that it had neglected to initiate a formal investigation into the aid despite doubts it should have had about the compatibility of the aid with the rules of the EU’s internal market. According to the low-cost carrier, the ...
It is the declared policy of the Congress that the Government should aid, counsel, assist, and protect, insofar as is possible, the interests of small-business concerns in order to preserve free competitive enterprise, to insure that a fair proportion of the total purchases and contracts or sub...