In seeking to uphold the integrity of the UN Human Rights Council,
Fiji's own integrity in its support of human rights should be justifiably scrutinised. Many member countries on the Council have appalling human rights records in their own countries. In 2004, Sudan was admitted as a member to the Council when it was engaged in significant gross violations of human rights in the Darfur region
"There are over thousand lawyers here who made the solemn oath to uphold the law. One law that is unconstitutional because it breaches a persons fundamental constitutional and Human Right on freedom of movement is the curfew imposed on Covid free Fiji. Your oath to uphold the law include the responsibility to challenge the curfews illegality under the Constitution." |  Justice Scott |
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HISTORY NOTES: In 2009, our Founding Editor-in-Chief, had written a nine part series in the Fiji Sun on how the coup culture had fractured the Fiji Judiciary, especially after George Speight's failed putsch, opening a bitter spat between Justice Nazhat Shameem and Justice Michael Scott, as Scott, Chief Justice Sir Timoci Tuivaqa and Justice Daniel Fatiaki were accused by Justices Shameem and Anthony Gates of allegedly drafting the Administration of Justice Decree 2000 (Interim Military Government Decree No. 5 of 2000). That Decree was subsequently repealed by the Judicature Decree 2000 [ICG Decree No. 22]. Our Founding Editor-in-Chief was personally acquainted with all the aforementioned Judges for over three decades but strived to be even handed in his analysis of the state of the Fijian judiciary following the coups in Fiji
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