Fijileaks
  • Home
  • Archive Home
  • In-depth Analysis
    • BOI Report into George Speight and others beatings
  • Documents
  • Opinion
  • CRC Submissions
  • Features
  • Archive

PUBLIC ORDER ACT, nor its amendments, provide an offence for failing to apply for a permit, rules DPP as Rabuka and others face no charges!

18/10/2016

3 Comments

 

"However, whilst the arrest and detention was legally justified under the Act, I have concerns that it took the Police five days after the meeting
to act when they must have been aware that the Divisional Police Commander had not granted the permit. It would also appear that the Police were selective in who they arrested, given that a large number of people had taken part in the public meeting.”
- DPP Pryde

Picture

* Insufficient evidence to sustain a charge for a breach of the Public Order Act in so far as there was no intention on the part of these persons to attend the meeting in breach of the Act;
* Neither the Public Order Act, nor its amendments, provide an offence for failing to apply for a permit.
* Insufficient evidence to charge anyone in relation to a possible charge of incitement contrary to section 48 of the Crimes Decree.
* Have concerns that it took the Police five days after the meeting to act when they must have been aware that the Divisional Police Commander had not granted the permit.
* Also appear that the Police were selective in who they arrested, given that a large number of people had taken part in the public meeting. - DPP

3 Comments
Welcome Home
18/10/2016 09:51:05 am

We are hardly surprised by this finding are we? Only that it has taken so long to voice the obvious partiality of the Fiji Police in the manner of applying or NOT applying the law as it now stands. This is unprofessional and arbitrary and must swiftly change.



Reply
Russell Hunter
18/10/2016 12:40:35 pm

So it was no more than harassment then? And what will happen to those cops? I think we know the answer.

Reply
Justice
19/10/2016 08:17:54 am

I thought justice is blind

Reply

Your comment will be posted after it is approved.


Leave a Reply.

    editor@fijileaks.com

    ARCHIVES

    September 2020
    August 2020
    July 2020
    June 2020
    December 2018
    November 2018
    October 2018
    January 2018
    December 2017
    November 2017
    October 2017
    September 2017
    August 2017
    July 2017
    June 2017
    May 2017
    April 2017
    March 2017
    February 2017
    January 2017
    December 2016
    November 2016
    October 2016
    September 2016
    August 2016
    July 2016
    June 2016
    May 2016
    April 2016
    March 2016
    February 2016
    January 2016
    December 2015
    November 2015
    October 2015
    September 2015
    August 2015
    July 2015
    June 2015
    May 2015
    April 2015
    March 2015
    February 2015
    January 2015
    December 2014
    November 2014
    October 2014
    September 2014
    August 2014
    July 2014
    June 2014
    May 2014
    April 2014
    March 2014
    February 2014
    January 2014
    December 2013
    November 2013
    October 2013
    September 2013
    August 2013
    July 2013
    June 2013
    May 2013
    April 2013
    March 2013
    February 2013
    January 2013
    December 2012
    October 2012
    September 2012
    Picture
    Picture