Ming Leung Wai | |
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Attorney General of Samoa | |
In office 4 December 2006 –4 March 2016 | |
Prime Minister | Tuila'epa Sa'ilele Malielegaoi |
Preceded by | Brenda Heather-Latu |
Succeeded by | Lemalu Herman Retzlaff |
Personal details | |
Born | 1973 (age 50–51) |
Tuatagaloa Aumua Ming Leung Wai (born 1973) [1] is a Samoan lawyer. He served as Attorney-General of Samoa from 2006 to 2016.
He was educated at Marist St Joseph’s school in Samoa and the University of Waikato in Hamilton,New Zealand,graduating with an LLB(Hons). [2] He worked as a lawyer in New Zealand and Samoa before being appointed Attorney-General in November 2006. [1]
As Attorney-General he represented the government in opposing a legal challenge against switching to driving on the left. [3] In July 2009 he helped establish the Pacific Prosecutors Association. [4] In 2009 he filed a complaint with the New Zealand Broadcasting Standards Authority over a 1 News story about guns and drugs in Samoa. [5] resulting in a finding that the story was inaccurate and unbalanced. [6] In 2010 he filed a second complaint against a Campbell Live show which had alleged donations for the 2009 Samoa earthquake and tsunami were unaccounted for. [7] The complaint was unsuccessful. [8] In 2010 he threatened to charge the Samoa Observer with defamation over a story on the approval of casinos in Samoa. [9]
In 2011 he defended Samoa's strict anti-party-hopping laws. [10] In 2012 he investigated corruption in the police and at Tafaigata prison. [11]
In March 2016 he was replaced by Lemalu Herman Retzlaff after he did not seek reappointment on the expiry of his contract. [12]
In 2016 and 2017 he represented Director of Public Prosecutions Mauga Precious Chang when she was suspended over dangerous driving charges. [13] [14] In 2018 he represented President of the Land and Titles Court of Samoa Fepulea'i Attila Ropati who had been suspended over a charge of assault. [15] [16]
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