Mata Tuatagaloa

[3] In 2015 Tuatagaloa was appointed to the Supreme Court and continued to hear criminal trials.

[4] In 2016 Tuatagaloa heard charges of forgery and fraud against Associate Minister Peseta Vaifou Tevaga.

[5] Tuatagaloa found the prosecution failed to prove the charges and they were dismissed.

[6] Tuatagaloa was described by Talamua Online News as being tough on domestic violence,[7] after sentencing a man to 11 years and 9 months in prison for attempted murder after he attacked a woman with a machete, breaching a protection order against him.

[8] Tuatagaloa has sat in the Alcohol and Drugs Court since its establishment in February 2016 and credited the court process and engagement of the community with a reduction in alcohol related cases from 61% to 55% of all cases.