Sailosi Kepa
http://dbpedia.org/resource/Sailosi_Kepa an entity of type: Thing
Sailosi Wai Kepa (4 November 1938 – 1 March 2004) was a Fijian statesman, judge, and diplomat. Born in the village of on the island of Ono-i-Lau, Kepa was one of many distinguished public figures to hail from the Lau archipelago. He was educated at and Lelean Memorial School, before enrolling in in 1959. He went on to receive a Diploma in Teaching of English from the University of Sydney in 1966. In 1972, he received a Law degree from the renowned Middle Temple in London, England.
rdf:langString
rdf:langString
Sailosi Kepa
rdf:langString
Sailosi Wai Kepa
rdf:langString
Sailosi Wai Kepa
xsd:date
2004-03-01
rdf:langString
Nukuni, Ono-i-Lau
xsd:date
1938-11-04
xsd:integer
1980059
xsd:integer
1104292164
xsd:date
1938-11-04
xsd:integer
1
xsd:date
2004-03-01
rdf:langString
Attorney General of Fiji
rdf:langString
Chairman, Fiji Human Rights Commission
xsd:integer
28
1.0
rdf:langString
Teacher, Lawyer, Judge, Diplomat
xsd:integer
1992
xsd:integer
1998
xsd:integer
2001
rdf:langString
August 2003
xsd:integer
1988
1992
1998
2001
xsd:integer
1
xsd:integer
1988
1992
1998
2001
rdf:langString
Sailosi Wai Kepa (4 November 1938 – 1 March 2004) was a Fijian statesman, judge, and diplomat. Born in the village of on the island of Ono-i-Lau, Kepa was one of many distinguished public figures to hail from the Lau archipelago. He was educated at and Lelean Memorial School, before enrolling in in 1959. He went on to receive a Diploma in Teaching of English from the University of Sydney in 1966. In 1972, he received a Law degree from the renowned Middle Temple in London, England. Kepa's legal career was a distinguished one, which took him into politics, diplomacy, and the judiciary. After joining the Department of Justice as a magistrate in 1969 (serving Suva, Sigatoka, Nadi, and the Northern Division), he became Chief Magistrate in 1980. He also became Director of Public Prosecutions in November that year. He went on to become Fiji's High Commissioner to London in 1985, and and Attorney General in 1988. He served in this role until 1992, when he became a High Court judge. In 1998 he was appointed the first Chairman of Fiji's Human Rights Commission. His last official post was as Fiji's Ombudsman, a post he held from 2001 till his retirement in August 2003. In his younger years, Kepa made a name for himself as a rugby player. He was later rewarded by being made Chairman of the Fiji Rugby Union from 1983 to 1986. He was granted life membership in 1994. Kepa was married for many years to Ro Teimumu Kepa, an Adi (Fijian chief) and politician in her own right, who is the Roko Tui Dreketi (Paramount Chief) of the Burebasaga Confederacy and served as from 2001 to 2006 in the government of Prime Minister Laisenia Qarase. Since 2014, she has been Leader of the Social Democratic Liberal Party, and since the general elections in September that year, Leader of the Opposition. They had three children: Sailosi Jr., Asenaca, and Tupoutu’a.
rdf:langString
Chief Justice
xsd:nonNegativeInteger
7713