Tavake Barron Afeaki

[2] He represented Ramsay Dalgety in his perjury trial following the MV Princess Ashika disaster.

[3] In June 2017 he was appointed to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council of Tonga as a Law Lord.

[1] In October 2021 he was appointed Chief Justice of Tonga for four months while Michael Hargreaves Whitten was on holiday, despite not being a qualified judge.

[6] The appointment was controversial as Afeaki was the chair of the panel which recommended his own appointment, and the normal process would have seen the next most senior Supreme Court Judge - Laki Niu, a commoner - act in the role.

[6] As a result, a group of Tongan lawyers wrote to the king requesting that the appointment be revoked.