In 2005, he was acquitted on charges of having been involved in the Fiji coup of 2000.
These constitutional arrangements were temporarily upset by the Fiji coup of 2000.
The current crisis has its origins in the Fiji coup of 2000.
National constituencies were abolished in the wake of the Fiji coups of 1987.
The later concept was first tested during Operation Morrisdance, the contingency mounted in response to the 1987 Fiji coup.
They were followed by professionals after the first Fiji coup of 1987.
Following the Fiji coups of 1987, Bale went into private practice as a lawyer.
The Fiji coup of 2000 has provoked a violent backlash against the Indo-Fijians.
On 27 September 2005, he was sentenced to eight months' imprisonment for offenses related to the Fiji coup of 2000.
That crisis came on 19 May 2000, with the Fiji coup of 2000.