The Fiji Court of Appeal was established in 1949 as the highest court of appeal, short of the Privy Council, for Fiji and the Western Pacific High Commission jurisdiction. After the dissolution of the WPHC, the Fiji Court of Appeal continued to sit as the appeal court for Kiribati and Tuvalu. Prior to 1949 appeals from the Supreme Court of Fiji were taken to the Privy Council. Appeals from the Fiji Court of Appeal to the Privy Council were still possible after 1949, until the coups, when that right was abolished. <BR> Under the direction of Judge Michael Scott a complete set of judgements Fiji Court of Appeal was compiled and indexed in 1991/92, with the help of a grant from the Asia Foundation. The judgements were photocopied from informal compilations and from original case files. Three sets of the photocopied judgements were made, each set comprising 22 thick volumes, amounting to almost 13,000 A4 pages.

Fiji Court of Appeal judgements delivered from 1949-1996, Supreme Court of Fiji judgements delivered in 1996, and Privy Council judgements delivered between 1936-1986.<P><b>See reel list for further details</b>