IBA Flawed-Judiciary

The Judiciary in Fiji has labelled the International Bar Associations report on the Judiciary in Fiji as being flawed in methodology and issues which demonstrate false deductions.

In a statement this afternoon, the Fiji Judiciary said that even a glance at the IBA report will show it is flawed in three ways, in its moral authority to hold an enquiry at all into Fiji's Judiciary, in the methodology and style adopted and in the body of its contents.

The Judiciary also questions what the IBA is. They say it might use the word international in its title but this is not an international body formed by nation states as it is a private group of lawyers.

They say despite the IBA's claims to be the global voice of the legal profession, its report reveals it represents only 30,000 individual lawyers worldwide whereas in the US alone, there are over 1 million lawyers.

The Judiciary also questions the IBA delegation that come to Fiji as only a Judge from Australia was named while other members were unstated. They say the report is silent on how the team to visit Fiji was chosen.