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The Venice Commission report remarks about our proliferation of tribunals presided by quasi-judges that have the power to decide but are casual about the obligations of impartiality incumbent on judges. Here's one. Harold Walls presides over an Industrial Tribunal. And he stretches his mental faculties on Facebook. This wasn't some academic exercise. It is a [...]

I looked up this piece I remembered writing, one of quite a few in the hours after Daphne Caruana Galizia was killed last year. I did that because the heading — her words, not mine — is always stuck in my mind when I look at the reality around me. Tomorrow the Venice Commission will [...]

Konrad Mizzi thinks his human rights are breached. Now we’ll get the usual non sequitur that he too is a citizen and has as much right to resort to the courts as anyone else. That was his line and the line of his Panama gang colleagues when they appealed a lower court decision to start [...]

Judge Vincent De Gaetano on Friday spoke at an event hosted by the President marking the 70th anniversary of the universal declaration of human rights. Vincent De Gaetano worked at the office of the Attorney General for sixteen years, was a judge for another sixteen years, eight of them as Chief Justice and has sat [...]

Leeuwarder Courant is the old newspaper in the Netherlands still in circulation and it's focused in Friesland and its capital Leeuwarden the other European Capital of Culture 2018. The newspaper today published this feature a year after the assassination of Daphne Caruana Galizia. The translation below is a Google Translate job so may not be [...]

When Owen Bonnici lies he looks like a silly schoolboy. When the Minister of Justice lies it is a shocking embarrassment and yet more evidence that our institutions have been hijacked by banana republic tyrants. In a government statement yesterday Owen Bonnici said he had asked the Council of Europe’s Venice Commission for advice on [...]

I agree with this blogpost by Desmond Zammit Marmarà who expressed disgust on Newsbook at the cynical use of the ‘co-option’ formula to smuggle unelected people into Parliament. He explains the procedure and its misuse well, so read his article for background. I have also commented in the past (here’s a collection) particularly on the [...]

“Do not be negative. Our institutions are working.” That is the standard reply by the government, its trolls and apologists when one mentions or asks about corruption, money laundering and a host of other criminal activities by ministers, government officials and their friends we face every day. Outgoing Prime Minister Joseph Muscat used to insist [...]

This interview was first published in the original Italian as part of the "Malta Report" presented at the forty-second Anti-Mafia summit recently convened in Naples. A copy of the Malta Report published by the Osservatorio Mediterraneo sulla Criminalità Organizzata e le Mafie is here. Aldo Musci interviews Giuseppe Lumia (in past legislatures a member for [...]

While it is somehow easy to demonise a faceless blonde Russian and to dismiss the quips of an ex-police officer as politically motivated, it is indeed an incredible challenge to spin the manifestly shifty, serial wife-battering, inexplicably wealthy, multiple passport-wielding Ali Sadr as some sort of hero. And yet the Labour trolls have their instructions. [...]