(a) to maintain and improve the standards of conduct and learning of the legal profession in Fiji;
(b) to promote the welfare and to preserve and maintain the integrity and status of the legal profession;
(c) to assist the Government and the courts in all matters affecting legislation and law reform and the administration and practice of the law in Fiji;
(d) to aid and give countenance to law reform and to represent the views, interests and wishes of the legal profession;
(e) to represent, protect and assist members of the legal profession in Fiji as regards conditions of practice and otherwise;
(f) to settle points of practice and to provide means for the amicable settlement of professional differences;
(g) to protect and assist the public and the legal profession in all matters touching, ancillary or incidental to the practice of the law;
(h) to aid in the preparation, circulation and publication of legal decisions given in or affecting Fiji;
(i) to assist needy members and former members of the Society or their relatives and the relatives of deceased members;
(j) to investigate charges of professional misconduct against any practitioner and to take such action thereon as may seem proper;
(k) to intervene in any application trade for the admission or re-admission as a barrister and solicitor, or any other application made under this Act;
(l) to acquire, hold, develop or dispose of property of all kinds, whether real or personal, and to derive capital or income therefore, for all or any of the foregoing objects;
(m) to raise or borrow money for all or any of the foregoing objects in such manner and upon such security as may from time to time be determined by the Society;
(n) to invest and deal with moneys of the Society not immediately required in such manner as may from time to time be determined by the Society;
(o) to appoint any practitioner to appear before any court or tribunal in any of the foregoing matters or in any other matter in which the Society is concerned or interested, and any practitioner so appearing shall have audience accordingly on behalf of the Society;
(p) to pay the whole or any part of the expenses incurred by members in attending meetings of the Council or meetings of any committee appointed by the Council;
(q) to pay all costs, witnesses' expenses, and other payments incidental to or connected with the discharge of any function of the Society;
(r) to tender advice to the Chief Justice as respects any of his powers and duties under the provisions of this Act;
(s) to do all such other things as are incidental or conducive to the attainment of the foregoing objects or any of them.
