The Attorney General and Minister for Justice Aiyaz Sayed‑Khaiyum has stressed that in the last four to five years the quality of discussions that has been held at the Attorney General’s Conference has improved significantly.
While delivering his closing remarks at the 19th Attorney General’s Conference, Sayed Khaiyum says the Conference has been running for quite a number of years now and indeed has become a Premier Conference as far as discussing not only legal issues but also socio‑economic issues that actually affect the making of laws and the formulation of laws.
He also gave a summary of the panel discussions that took place over the past two days.
Sayed-Khaiyum says there has been a number of significant changes in the two major laws that have been brought about in Parliament this year.
He says one of the laws discussed in the Conference is the Accident Compensation Act that has been put in place.
The Attorney general says that the Commission has selected a new CEO which will be announced in a couple of weeks and the compensation will actually be paid out through the Commission from 1st of January.
Sayed-Khaiyum also mentioned the call to regulate cyber space and also raised concern about people making negative remarks about the Attorney General’s Conference on social media however there is currently no law in Fiji to take action against the people concerned.
