The hearing of an ongoing court battle between Lord Sevele-‘O-Vailahi, the Chairperson with nine staff members of Tonga’s Pacific Games Organizing Committee, in a court case against the Kingdom of Tonga is scheduled to be heard by Lord Chief Justice M.H. Whitten QC, at the Nuku’alofa Supreme Court on 14 February 2020.
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Results for Lord Sevele-'o-Vailahi
Tuesday 15 October 2019
Nuku'alofa, Tonga
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Thursday 15 November 2018
Nuku'alofa, Tonga
The Kingdom of Tonga has an arguable defence to claims made by Plaintiffs, Lord Sevele-'o-Vailahi and 10 former members of the Pacific Games Organizing Committee, Lord Chief Justice O. G. Paulsen ruled on November 8.
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Monday 24 September 2018
Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Tonga‘s Minister for Finance and National Planning, Hon. Pohiva Tu‘i‘onetoa, moved for the House to take two former Prime Ministers, Lord Sevele and Lord Tu’ivakano to court for the alleged misappropriation of government funds. From the House by Pesi Fonua.
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Monday 29 August 2016
Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Lord Chief Justice O. G. Paulsen on 25 August at the Nuku’alofa Supreme Court ordered the Prime Minister, Hon. ‘Akilisi Pohiva and the Audit and Governance Authority of the 2019 Pacific Games to refrain from removing Lord Sevele-‘o-Vailahi from his position as the Chief Executive Officer of the Tonga Pacific Games Organizing Committee, and to pay all remuneration and other benefits due to him that has been withheld since 1 July 2016.
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