{"id":267779,"date":"2026-02-04T20:39:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T20:39:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/267779\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T20:39:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T20:39:13","slug":"high-court-decision-briefed-to-president-fbc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/267779\/","title":{"rendered":"High Court decision briefed to President \u2013 FBC News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Prime-Minister-Rabuka.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>[File Photo]<\/p>\n<p>The recent High Court decision concerning the former Commissioner of the Fiji Independent Commission Against Corruption Barbara Malimali has now reached the highest office in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka this afternoon confirmed meeting with the President Ratu Naiqama Lalabalavu, at State House to formally brief him on the ruling and its implications.<\/p>\n<p>During the meeting, the President was updated on the details of the ruling and the constitutional pathways available moving forward.<\/p>\n<p>Article continues after advertisement<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, it was confirmed that Ratu Naiqama conveyed his support for the appropriate options provided within the constitutional framework.<\/p>\n<p>The ruling by the High Court was that the advise made by the Prime Minister to the President to revoke Malimali\u2019s appointment was unlawful.<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"viti-plus-link-article\" href=\"https:\/\/www.viti.plus\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Stream the best of Fiji on VITI+.  Anytime.  Anywhere.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"[File Photo] The recent High Court decision concerning the former Commissioner of the Fiji Independent Commission Against Corruption&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":267780,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-267779","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=267779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267779\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/267780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}