The protest of road blocks by landowners was heard at the Lautoka High Court, subsequently the court ordered the landowners to remove the barricade across tramlines which cart harvested sugarcane to the area's only sugar mill.
Justice Connor's ruling may also require some further analysis because it may impinge on the constitutional guarantees that protect native land. If native landowners are not legally bound to raise issues concerning their ancestral land, then according to Justice Connor the landowner ownership claims, exist basically on paper only. That legal definition will not go down well with the grassroots villagers, who bear witness to this violation of natural jusitice.
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