The Fiji Times, its Editor in Chief and Publisher will know by December what type of penalty they will face with regards to the Contempt of Court case which they were implicated in.

The Interim Attorney General has been given until the 24th of November to file submissions on the type of penalty that should be imposed on The Fiji Times, Netani Rika and Rex Gardner.

The Solicitor General, Christopher Pryde, who represented the Interim Attorney General at the hearing this morning before Justice Thomas Hickie, said outside court that he would be making submissions in support of a term of imprisonment for Rika and Gardner and a hefty fine for The Fiji Times.

The hearing of the penalty issue will be held on the 4th of December 2008.

The case is in reference to the Fiji Times publishing a letter to the editor which had criticised the High Court Panel that ruled the President's actions to appoint an Interim Government, legal.

The Fiji Times had then printed an admission that the letter was in contempt of court and offered to pay costs.