Parliamentary Select Committee

Samoa Law Society seeks to have three controversial bills dumped

"The bills would remove people's ability to enforce their constitutional rights at the Lands and Titles Court and it is seeking to have them dumped from parliament," according to the Law Society.

It said the bills would split the court system into two jurisdictions with neither having primacy and judicial oversight.

Further, it said the bills would weaken judicial independence and undermine the separation of powers between the executive, judicial and legislative branches of government.