6 Australia and New Zealand. 9 Many such consultants remain engaged in the important work for the review and reform of the constitutional provisions¹⁰.     Everywhere the constitution-making process raised a large agenda.  Customary land, language and traditions were high on the list of concerns.  Individual countries faced particular concerns, as some still do, with immigrant populations or decentralisation issues or other issues.  The incorporation of customary values and practices and the accommodation of traditional authorities in the constitution was the most difficult and complex.¹¹ They are issues that have fundamental influence on the organisation of traditional communities and the behaviour of family units and individuals and remain difficult and complex for the respective small island States.  Increasingly, especially with the movement of island peoples to the metropolitan areas, they would be some of the issues that are being transported to Australia and New Zealand.  How these issues, and the manifested problems having root in such issues, are handled in individual States have important implications for others in the Pacific.  I would note in this connection that the decisions of the superior Courts of island States, invariably comprising senior Judges from Australia and New Zealand, on some of these issues, in addition to resolving particular disputes within the State, also have far reaching significance in their contribution to the growth and development of an important corpus of Pacific law and as vital material for the universities in Australia and New Zealand and at USP in the training of Pacific lawyers and other citizens.¹²     Clearly, there are issues that must be reformed and resolved by and within each country.   But there would also be others capable of a broader response such as those relating to general commerce and regional trade and the environment.  There is, in fact, considerable work being carried out at the regional level that contributes directly to the efforts of Governments at the national level to review and update their laws, and to assist Governments, especially with the more complex and technical types of legislation.  We should look at some instances of this regional work.      Regional cooperation for law reform   A significant range of activities is being undertaken in the region for the development of legislative frameworks and for the review and general reform of the law as part of and in order to support various social, trade and economic development programmes.  They are activities that would be impossible for any one country to manage, and which need to be carried out on the basis of the active partnership and collaboration that exists in the Forum structure of the region.  They are activities that would have little prospect in their practical effect and implementation without clear and strong political mandate.  Some of                                                 9 I.L.M. Richardson, Advising on overseas law reform, VUW Law Review, 1978 Vol. 9 No. 4, 1978, p. 385 10 e.g., the 1995/1996 Constitution Review Commission on the Constitution of the Fiji Islands, chaired by Sir Paul Reeves . 11 Yash Ghai, p.39 12 see, for example, Attorney General v. Saipa’ia Olomalu , 1982, Court of Appeal of Samoa, Cooke P, Mills and Keith JJ (reported in VIC Law Review, 1984, vol. 14, No. 3, p. 275); Republic of Fiji v. Prasad,   2001, Court of Appeal of Fiji, Casey P; Barker, Kapi, Ward and Handley JJ (reported in Oxford University Commonwealth Law Journal)