Four new High Court judges sworn-in

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Justice Pita Bulamainaivalu – Puisne Judge, Justice Samuela Dina Qica – Acting Puisne Judge, President, Ratu Wiliame Katonivere, Justice Chaitanya Lakshman – Acting Puisne Judge and Justice Senileba Levaci – Acting Puisne Judge. Picture: SUPPLIED

Four new High Court judges were sworn-in by the President Ratu Wiliame Katonivere at the State House yesterday.

The new-appointees, Justice Pita Bulamainaivalu – Puisne Judge, Justice Samuela Dina Qica – Acting Puisne Judge, Justice Chaitanya Lakshman – Acting Puisne Judge and Justice Senileba Levaci – Acting Puisne Judge were sworn in in the presence of the Attorney-General and Minister for Justice, Siromi Turaga, Acting Chief Justice, Salesi Temo, Chief Registrar, Tomasi Bainivalu, and Solicitor General Ropate Green.

Mr Bulamainaivalu was admitted to the Bar of the High Court of Fiji in 2000. He has been a Barrister & Solicitor in Fiji for more than 20years.

He graduated from the School of Law with a Bachelor of Law from the University of the South Pacific in 1999 and with a Master of Public Policy (MPP) majoring in Governance, Leadership & Public Policy, Faculty of Arts & Social Science, the University of Sydney, New South Wales in 2010.

Prior to this appointment, Mr Bulamainaivalu was the Acting Executive Director People and Workforce Strategy (ED PWS), Human Resource Office at the University South of the Pacific (USP) where he managed the human resources needs for the university’s 14 campuses located in the 12 member nations.

Mr Qica graduated from the University of the South Pacific with Bachelor’s of Law in 1999.

Prior to attaining his B.A Law (LLB), Mr Qica enlisted into the Republic of the Fiji Military Forces then attended Officer Cadet training and was posted to Territorial Forces thereafter.

He has worked at the office of the Director of Public Prosecutions from 2003-2011 and has held a substantive post as a Principal Legal Officer.

Prior to this appointment, Mr Qica joined the Judicial department, as a Resident Magistrate in 2011 where he served in the western division.

Mr Chaitanya Sagar Chetan Anand Lakshman graduated from the University of the South Pacific with Bachelors of Law in 1997.

Prior to this appointment, Mr Lakshman served as Senior Resident Magistrate.

He has also served as Resident Magistrate from 2009 to February 2022, at the Family court in Suva, Nausori Magistrate court, Suva Magistrate Court, and Sigatoka Magistrate Court.

Mrs Levaci was appointed as Resident Magistrate on 10th November, 2014 till to date. She has served in Navua and Labasa/Nabouwalu jurisdictions.

She graduated from the University of the South Pacific attaining Bachelors of Art majoring in Economics and Language/Literature and also he also graduated with Bachelors of Law (LLB) from the University of the South Pacific in 1997.

Following this, Mrs Levaci graduated from the University of the South Pacific in 1998 with Postgraduate in Legal Practice.

In 2007 she graduated from the University of the South Pacific attaining a Post graduate diploma in Legislative Drafting.

In 2013, Mrs Levaci graduated from the Queensland University of Technology, Australia where she attained a Masters in Intellectual Property Law.

She was tasked to provide legal opinions to the Ministry of Commerce and legal submissions on contracts, legal implications on working papers, draft bill, and other legislations currently under the ministry eg. Foreign Investment Act.

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