| Ming Leung Wai | |
| Office: | Attorney General of Samoa |
| Primeminister: | Tuila'epa Sa'ilele Malielegaoi |
| Term Start: | 4 December 2006 |
| Term End: | 4 March 2016 |
| Predecessor: | Brenda Heather-Latu |
| Successor: | Lemalu Herman Retzlaff |
Tuatagaloa Aumua Ming Leung Wai (born 1973)[1] is a Samoan lawyer. He served as Attorney-General of Samoa from 2006 to 2016.
He was educated at Marist St Joseph’s school in Samoa and the University of Waikato in Hamilton, New Zealand, graduating with an LLB(Hons).[2] He worked as a lawyer in New Zealand and Samoa before being appointed Attorney-General in November 2006.[1]
As Attorney-General he represented the government in opposing a legal challenge against switching to driving on the left.[3] In July 2009 he helped establish the Pacific Prosecutors Association.[4] In 2009 he filed a complaint with the New Zealand Broadcasting Standards Authority over a 1News story about guns and drugs in Samoa.[5] resulting in a finding that the story was inaccurate and unbalanced.[6] In 2010 he filed a second complaint against a Campbell Live show which had alleged donations for the 2009 Samoa earthquake and tsunami were unaccounted for.[7] The complaint was unsuccessful.[8] In 2010 he threatened to charge the Samoa Observer with defamation over a story on the approval of casinos in Samoa.[9]
In 2011 he defended Samoa's strict anti-party-hopping laws.[10] In 2012 he investigated corruption in the police and at Tafaigata prison.[11]
In March 2016 he was replaced by Lemalu Herman Retzlaff after he did not seek reappointment on the expiry of his contract.[12]
In 2016 and 2017 he represented Director of Public Prosecutions Mauga Precious Chang when she was suspended over dangerous driving charges.[13] [14] In 2018 he represented President of the Land and Titles Court of Samoa Fepulea'i Attila Ropati who had been suspended over a charge of assault.[15] [16]