Praneeta Prakash 
The Suva High Court will deliver its judgment next year on an application
for leave for judicial review relating to the Commission of Inquiry report.
Three different parties have challenged the validity of the report and are
seeking an order to quash its findings and recommendations, along with
other declarations.
The applicants include former FICAC Commissioner Barbara Malimali, Fiji
Law Society President William Wylie Clarke, former President Laurel
Vaurasi, and former Attorney-General Graham Leung.
They are represented by lawyers Tanya Waqanika, Richard Naidu, and Seforan Fatiaki.
Naidu argued that his clients were accused of bullying and coercion when
they had gone to assist Malimali on the day of her arrest in September last
year.
Fatiaki submitted that his client was dismissed from his post as a result of
the Commission of Inquiry report.
The respondents in this matter are the Commission of Inquiry into the
appointment of Malimali as FICAC Commissioner, the President, the Prime
Minister, and the Attorney-General.
The Attorney-General’s counsel today that they disagree that the
applicant no recourse, saying the applicants had an opportunity to respond
and that opportunity had been lost.
The judgment will be delivered on 23 January at 3pm.
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