The development of the programme has been guided by a sub-committee headed by Sir Armold Amet the Chief Justice of Papua New Guinea. The Board of Legal Eduction of Fiji at its meeting on 19 th February 1999 approved a programme in continuing legal education for Fiji practitioners pursuant to section 7 of the Legal Practitioners Act 1997. The programme is based on a credit points system which will require practitioners to undertake ten point in continuing legal education activities each year. The ten points equates to the minimum requirement of ten hours under the Act. A range of programmes have been indicated as part of approved continuing legal education activities including conferences, delivery of public lectures, obtaining of higher qualifications in law or related disciplines, teaching in a law programme, law reform work and acting as a magistrate or judge.
Some activities carry a weighting higher than ten credit points.
Excess points can be carried over for a maximum period of two years. The programme will be administered on a day to day basis by the Fiji Law Society. This will provide very wide access to the Materials as the Austlii site currently receives around 1 million 'hits' per week. Austlii provides free access to Australian and regional legal material free to anyone who has access to the internet - including full text databases of Australian primary legal materials such as the legislation of all 9 Australian jurisdictions and the decisions of the Supreme Courts of all States and Territories, the decisions of all Australian Federal Courts and the High Court. The site also includes the Australian Treaties Library and the Australian Law Reform Commission Reports .