
Climate Change in the Pacific - Directors Duties (Fiji edition)
No Director of a company doing business in the Pacific Region can afford to be a climate change denier.


Fiji: Cannabis should be high on the government’s agenda
By Sam Cook The tourists are gone, and Covid has crippled the economy. A well-regulated marijuana industry might not be a bad idea. Cannabis leaves dry in a temperature controlled greenhouse in Thailand, which in 2018 became the first Southeast Asian country to legalise medical marijuana (Lauren DeCicca/Getty Images) Fiji’s capital Suva has been in and out of Covid lockdowns over recent weeks, and my Netflix got a workout. I watched a TV show called “Cooked with Cannabis”. Ad


Electronic Transactions Act (2008): Validity of Electronic Communications in Legal Proceedings
By Feizal Haniff and Pita Suguturaga Introduction COVID-19 has seen many restrictions put in place with businesses, which aim to limit face to face contact. The Fiji Government is also trying to promote its digital services during the pandemic. Despite this, filing court documents is still done physically at the respective Court Registries in Fiji. However, the recent case Island Buses Limited v Land Transport Authority – HBA 31 of 2020[1] has confirmed the effectiveness of e

What I learnt on COVID lock-down: Take a Break, Bake a Cake
By Pita Suguturaga I remember the last time I tried baking. It wasn’t considered edible by the freelance food critics that I live with at home, and so as a victim of poor shopping choices, I have not baked until the most recent COVID lockdowns. Fiji is experiencing its second wave of COVID, and the increasing number of cases caused the main island of Viti-Levu to go into several full lockdowns as part of the Ministry of Health’s efforts to carry out contact tracing. With no c


The National Payment System Act 2021 – Paving the way for innovation and financial inclusion in Fiji
The National Payment System Act 2021 – Paving the way for innovation and financial inclusion in Fiji