Based on Fiji Live 21 April 2009
New Zealander Christopher Pryde, reappointed today as Fiji's Solicitor-General, has criticized NZ Law Society president John Marshall QC’s comment that lawyers should not accept office with the Fiji government. Pryde said people could bury their heads in the sand and wish that things were otherwise, but the fact remained that the President had abrogated the 1997 Constitution. He called NZLS president's advice “paradoxical.”
“It is precisely at this time that Fiji needs good, competent lawyers to assist it and I am pleased that all the New Zealand lawyers working in the various ministries and departments in Fiji, including in my office, have committed themselves to staying on and seeing the country through this difficult period. The reappointment of people, including lawyers, to government positions and judges to the judiciary is an important part of that process without which, the road will be longer and rockier.”
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