Judge fines Fiji Times $300,000

Friday, February 22nd, 2013

The Fiji Times Limited has been ordered to pay a fine of $300,000 and court costs of $2000 within 28 days.

This after the High Court in Suva convicted the company of contempt of court.

In his judgment handed down this afternoon, judge 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.

He convicted the former publisher, Brian O’Flaherty, and ordered him to pay a fine of $10,000. Both Mr Wesley and Mr O’Flaherty were also ordered to pay costs of $2000 each to the Attorney-General within 28 days.

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