Yet for all his protestations that King George's hospitality does not imply a guarantee of immunity for Mr Mara, Tonga's judiciary remains answerable first and foremost to the king, not the elected government.
Tonga's indiscipline was a constant problem and Ganson finally lost patience after 24 minutes, sending Esikele Tonga to the sin-bin for yet another offence at the ruck.
Sarries chief executive Edward Griffiths says the prop's new deal is illegal and irrelevant and has taken up Tonga'uiha's U-turn with the governing body of the Guinness Premiership, who have now asked for written reports from both clubs.
The two sides of Tonga's brilliant stand-off Feleti Mateo were in evidence soon after.
Tonga's prime minister, Lord Tu'ivakano, says the courts will impartially consider a request for extradition.
Cameron Smith added a sixth before captain Darren Lockyer scored a national record 34th try, and Tonga's second score rounded off the win.
In the Plate quarter-finals, World Cup winners Wales fought back to overcome the USA 22-21, but Scotland had no answer to Tonga's power and pace as they went down 29-0.
More likely, Mr Bainimarama stayed at home to avoid rebukes for reneging on the commitment he made at last year's PIF summit in Tonga to hold elections by March 2009.
It also happens that Tonga's chief justice, Michael Scott, a former Fiji high-court judge and himself a refugee from Fiji's coup, is an arch-opponent of Fiji's chief justice, Anthony Gates, controversially appointed in the wake of the Bainimarama takeover.
England's final group game against Tonga on Friday is a winner-takes-all clash for a place as Pool A runners-up, and a likely quarter-final against Australia in Marseille on 6 October.
Saracens had felt aggrieved over Tonga'uiha's U-turn and had sought to persuade the 28-year-old to honour his agreement with them.
Sarries chief executive Edward Griffiths claimed Tonga'uiha's deal with Northampton was illegal and took his club's case to the Premiership's governing body, who asked for reports from both clubs.
Ireland started full of enthusiasm, and were helped by referee Steve Ganson's interpretation at the ruck with Tonga conceding the first of a seemingly endless stream of penalties after just a few seconds.
Glasgow winger Evans, who made a good impact during the Six Nations, gets a chance to impress head coach Andy Robinson after showing up well, alongside MacDonald, during Scotland A's 38-7 win over Tonga last Friday.
World No.2 Nadal is struggling with the knee injury he picked up Wednesday's quarterfinal win over Jo-Wilfred Tonga, where he was taken to three hard-fought sets.
Kelly was delighted with his side's response after their 22-20 defeat to Tonga in their opening pool game last week.
Barkley played inside-centre in England's last two pool games, against Samoa and Tonga, but came off after 60 minutes in the Tonga game and was replaced by Farrell.
Tonga captain Nili Latu hailed the team's improved discipline and confidence in their own game.
They seemed to be feeling the effects of the quick turnaround and Tonga made an explosive start with Toulouse's Maka going over after a rolling maul from a line-out after 72 seconds.
Three boxers from Tonga and a coach are training in Liverpool's Lifestyle Sports Centres in preparation for the Olympic qualifiers in Azerbaijan in September and the Commonwealth Games qualifiers in the Isle of Man.
Both should be fit for Saturday's game against Samoa, while Jason Robinson hopes to return against Tonga.
Ireland coach Andy Kelly rated Fiji higher than fellow Pacific Islanders Tonga and Samoa, the other teams in his side's pool, and he said they thoroughly deserved their semi-final spot.
Tom James was the next to clash with the ever-spikey Hartley, but it was the Northampton front row's dominance at the scrum - man-of-the-match Soane Tonga'uiha outstanding - that helped the depleted visitors secure another penalty for Myler to level the game at the break.
The television match official studied the replay before deciding Tonga'uiha had knocked on as he went over, which meant Courtney Lawes's follow-up effort was also discounted.
Platt must have still been day-dreaming about his try a few minutes later though as Cooper Vuna took advantage of the full-back's indecisiveness to get his fingertips to a bouncing ball before a late penalty from Joel Taufa'ao gave Tonga a narrow advantage going into half-time.
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