where he worked in Kenya, helping to support the work of that country's Committee of Experts which had been tasked to draft its new constitution. Following that assignment, he was involved in the training of judges and lawyers in international human rights law with the Pacific Regional Rights Resource Team. In July 2011, he was appointed as the new director of the Centre for the Independence of Judges and Lawyers; he left this organisation in March 2012. Commonwealth Lawyers Association and other legal associations It was revealed on 6 March 2006 that Leung had been elected onto the Council of the Commonwealth Lawyers Association. Founded in 1983, the council is a professional association of lawyers working to uphold the rule of law among the 53-member Commonwealth of Nations. Leung is the second lawyer from a Pacific Islands nation to serve on the council. The first was Ms. Alofa Seruvatu, former Secretary of the Fiji Law Society, who was elected in 2004. He was re-elected to the Council of the CLA in February 2011 at a meeting in Hyderabad, India. He is currently a senior Vice-President of Law Asia. He is also on the executive of the International Bar Association's Pro Bono and Access to Justice Committee. In 2022 he was appointed solicitor-general of the Cook Islands. In November 2022 he resigned, after nine months in the job. Personal life Leung grew up in Levuka, Fiji, but now resides in Suva. He took up a short-term contract in September 2014 as Registrar of the Supreme Court of Nauru, and later as Solicitor General, then as Secretary of Justice, to replace Lionel Aingimea who stood for Parliament and was appointed Assistant Minister for Justice. Mr Aingimea who is a second term parliamentarian, is now Deputy Speaker of the Parliament of the Republic of Nauru. He took up an appointment as Solicitor General of the Cook Islands in March 2022 but resigned to return to Fiji in December of that year. He is now a legal consultant based in Suva. References Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Fijian expatriates in Switzerland People from Kadavu Province Chinese diaspora Fijian people of Chinese descent Fijian expatriates in Nauru People from Levuka 20th-century Fijian lawyers 21st-century Fijian lawyers