Ni sa bula vinaka, Namaste, Noa'ia  and welcome to the Fiji Law Reform Commission website.

This website includes information on the Commission and its various functions and activities. You may also learn about the various reports and legal changes that the Commission has been able to offer to the people of Fiji over the last 25 years of its existence. 

The About Us Section will give you background information on the Commission, how we work, the steps in the law reform process, and how you can participate in a law reform reference. It also has a full list of Chairpersons, Commissioners, Directors and Staff who have served the Commission, and the references undertaken.

Our Current Review Section will inform you of the laws that the Commission is currently reviewing, including the Terms of Reference, the consultation process and the progress on the review. These include the review of the Prisons Act and Subsidiary Legislation, Domestic Violence laws, Criminal laws and procedures and the review of the Mental Health laws. 

 
Above: The former Attorney General meeting with the Penal Code Review Team: Clockwise: Professor Gerard McCoy, Former AGMJ and Senator Qoriniasi Bale, FLRC Executive Chairperson Alipate Qetaki and Senior Legal Officer Raramasi Salakubou

Our Past Reviews Section will tell you about a few of the law reviews that the Commission has recently completed, such as the Family Law Review, the Liquor Act Review, the review of laws relating to Bribery and Corruption and the review of Wills and Succession Laws. There is a full list of all the research papers, Final Reports and Bills produced by the Commission in this section. 
 

Above: The handover to the Attorney General of the Final Report on Bribery and Corruption by the Commissioners Chief Justice Daniel Fatiaki, the late Tomasi Vakatora and Vasantika Patel in June 2003. Clockwise: FLRC Executive Chairperson Alipate Qetaki, Commissioner Tomasi Vakatora, Chief Justice Daniel Fatiaki, Commissioner Vasantika Patel, former Attorney General and Justice Minister Senator Qoriniasi Bale, DPP Josua Naigulevu and former Deputy DPP Peter Ridgeway.

From the Publications Section you may learn more about the Commission by downloading archived Annual Reports, Newsletters, Reference Final Reports, Discussion Papers, Issues Papers and Bills published by the Commission. Notable recent publications now available for download from this site are the Final Report on Bribery and Corruption Laws tabled in Parliament in December 2004, the three Discussion Papers issued in September 2004 for the Domestic Violence review and the four Issues Papers published in March 2004 for the review of the Prisons Act.

   
Above: The Commission's Final Report on the Review of Fiji's Bribery and Corruption Laws which the Attorney General tabled in Parliament on 3 December 2004. The Report is available for download on the Publications Page (Final Reports section).

The Commission's newsletter, Qolilawa Darpan was revived in May 2004, and the latest issue is Number 11 of September 2005, available now for download. This includes more current information on the Commission's activities, current reviews, ongoing work on the implementation of previous reviews and up to date information on other Commission events.

The Commission hopes to eventually place all its publications in the public domain online. However, the digitisation of the Commission's publications is an ongoing process and reports and papers will be placed online as the project continues.
 
If you wish to be placed on the FLRC mailing list, send an e-mail to info@lawreform.gov.fj  or write to us - see the Contact Us page and indicate whether you wish to receive our newsletter and e-mail notifications of our activities and notices of when publications are added to this site. You may also use the Contact form to give views and suggestions for improvement to the site.

Click on the "New Additions to the Website" link on the Calendar of Events bar to the right to read about the new additions to the site. Given that the Liquor Reference is now at implementation stage, there is a page dedicated to this Reference in the Previous Reviews Section.


This site is a work in progress and will be regularly updated, so please bear with us. If there is particular information or clarification you would like, please contact the Commission directly.