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FIJI: Judge fines Times $300,000 over ‘scandalising’ judiciary

Posted on 20 February, 2013

Nanise Loanakadavu

SUVA (The Fiji Times / Pacific Media Watch): The Fiji Times Limited has been ordered to pay a fine of F$300,000 and court costs of $2000 within 28 days after being convicted for contempt of court in the High Court in Suva.

In his judgment handed down yesterday, Justice William Calanchini also convicted the newspaper's editor-in-chief, Fred Wesley, of contempt and sentenced him to six months' imprisonment suspended for a period of two years.

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