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Very little has been written on charitable laws in Fiji to date. Most of the organisations in Fiji seek incorporation under the pre-independence legislation dealing with charities, the Charitable Trusts Act (Cap 67). This Act is the basis of this paper. The key provisions of the Act are discussed in this paper. Recently serious questions have been raised on the status of charitable bodies with the de-registration of one of the registered charities (the Citizens' Constitutional Forum (CCF)) for political activity. This paper also provides an insight into the CCF 'saga', which goes to the 'heart' of the Act and examines the serious questions that are raised in interpreting the provisions in the Act. In the concluding part, various issues of reform in the charity sphere are also proposed.

The British Parliamentary model, as adopted in New Zealand, is characterised by the supremacy of the Rule of Law, as opposed to the arbitrary whim of man or party. The Prime Minister, and "regal authority," are subject to the Rule of Law: see Fitzgerald v Muldoon (1976) 2 NZLR 615, the case wherein the Chief Justice decided that Mr Muldoon could not suspend an act of Parliament by press release. Trade unions are subject to the Rule of Law, as the other caseg noted in these pages illustrate. The instant decision demonstrates that even lawyers and law firms are bound by the Rule of Law; like other employers they must obey the statutory requirements of dispute settlement.

Partial justice : law and minorities / Martha Minow -- The postmodern transition : law and politics / Boaventura de Sousa Santos -- Disciplines, subjectivity, and law / Robin West -- The law wishes to have a formal existence / Stanley Fish -- A journey through forgetting : toward a jurisprudence of violence / Austin Sarat and Thomas R. Kearns