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IN THE HIGH COURT OF FIJI
(AT SUVA)
REVISIONAL JURISDICTION
MISCELLANEOUS PROCEEDINGS NO. HBM 045/00
IN THTER OF
SIKELI KALISITO
Ms. V. Qionibaravi for the Applicant
Ms. Racheal Olutimayin for the Director of Public Prosecutions
JUDGMENT
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The Applicant is a mini bus driver who is serving a substantial term of imprisonment in default of payment of a large number of small
fines for relatively minor traffic offences.
As explained in Eroni Delai (HBM 15/2000) and Savenaca Komai (BM 40/2000) the accumulation ort terms of imprisonment innt in this way is absolutely wrong.
Each of the sentences imposed on the Applicant is to be varied to enable his immediate releaspan>
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Judge
28 July 00
HBM0045J.2000S
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