and also make provision for other courts to be established by law. The Supreme Court is declared to be "the final appellate court of the State" - in other words, there is no judicial authority higher than the Supreme Court. In this respect, the Supreme Court takes over the functions formerly performed by the British Privy Council before Fiji became a republic in 1987. The Court of Appeal is a new institution established by this constitution; the other two courts predate it.

Jurisdictions of the courts