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Independence in engagements
- Fees are fixed at intake (or, for Juris, when a matter is instructed), before any work begins, and do not depend on the finding or, for Juris, on the outcome of the matter.
- Fijishi does not certify a system it helped design or build.
- FSDA does not accept an engagement from, or a fee from, the vendor whose contract it reads.
- Juris is instructed only by licensed counsel acting for a firm.

Juris firewall
- Juris does not accept an engagement adverse to a current Fijishi client, or one that challenges a finding Fijishi issued for that client.
- Juris does not accept an engagement against a company named in a Fijishi Index entry on the subject of that entry.
- Where a matter involves a finding from Fijishi Constitutional Assurance (FCA), Juris works from the finding as issued; it does not revise it.
- A firm reviewed at a reinsurers or capacity providers request counts as a Fijishi client for this firewall.
These are standing policies, applied before any engagement is considered.

Independence of the Index
- No one pays to appear in the Index, and no one can pay to change an entry.
- No company, regulator or government was told of its entry before publication, and none had any input into its tier or band.
- The Index does not rank jurisdictions or companies against each other.
- We do not sell or pitch to any regulator or government the Index covers, and we do not send the Index to them unasked.
- For a company named in an entry, our first contact is a notice of the entry, its question and the right of reply, and nothing commercial.
- Each entry states any commercial relationship Fijishi has with a party named in it.
As published in the Index: Who we are, independence and right of reply

Standards development
- Fijishis draft criteria are published in full and developed in public: working draft, public comment, numbered version, in use.
- Comments and our responses are published, with each commenters agreement.
- No one can pay to change a draft, and no draft is changed for a client.
- Standards in development

Corrections
We would rather be told we are wrong than assumed to be right. Corrections to the Index are public, dated and logged in Corrections and new evidence. Corrections, new evidence and right of reply: indexreport.protocol@fijishi.com

Ownership and licensing
Fijishis published work may be cited with attribution. The Fijishi Jurisdiction Index is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-ND 4.0), DOI 10.5281/zenodo.23222476. For licensing, citation or reproduction requests, write to protocol@fijishi.com.