Neil Adsett

Neil Adsett
Attorney General of Tonga
In office 16 January 2012 – 26 June 2014
Prime Minister	Sialeʻataongo Tuʻivakanō
Preceded by	Barrie Sweetman (acting)
Succeeded by	ʻAminiasi Kefu (acting)

Neil Adsett SC is an Australian lawyer. He served as Attorney General of Tonga from 2012 to 2014.

Adsett is from Australia and works as a law consultant, specialising in revising national statutes.[1] He has produced revisions of the laws of Fiji, Tonga, Tuvalu, and other countries.[2]

In 2008 he worked as Tonga's Law Revision Commissioner.[3] He was subsequently appointed as Tonga's first anti-corruption commissioner.[4] In January 2012 he was appointed as Attorney General.[5][6] Shortly afterwards he was appointed Senior counsel.[7] He resigned in June 2014, as it was "the right time now for a Tongan lawyer to take over".[8][9]

References

1. "Wales has less law rights than channel island". Wales Online. 30 August 2005. Retrieved 21 August 2022.
2. "Completed Projects". Laws Consolidated. Retrieved 21 August 2022.
3. "Tonga's first anti corruption commissioner about to be announced". RNZ. 13 June 2008. Retrieved 21 August 2022.
4. "Support for Tonga's first anti-corruption commissioner". RNZ. 16 June 2008. Retrieved 21 August 2022.
5. Guy Powles (2012). POLITICAL AND CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM OPENS THE DOOR: THE KINGDOM OF TONGA'S PATH TO DEMOCRACY (PDF). Comparative Law Journal of the Pacific. p. 59. Retrieved 3 August 2021.
6. "Law Officers". Crown Law Tonga. Archived from the original on 19 April 2013.
7. "Attorney General Neil Adsett, appointed Senior Counsel". Matangi Tonga. 19 March 2012. Retrieved 21 August 2022.
8. "Tonga's Attorney General steps down". Kaniva Tonga. 20 June 2014. Retrieved 21 August 2022.
9. "Tonga's Attorney General to step down". RNZ. 23 June 2014. Retrieved 21 August 2022.