Opinion: A Commercial Court for Malta ?

Earlier in 2017, the Ministry for Justice, Culture and Local Government held a public consultation, titled “Setting up of the Civil Court, First Hall, Commercial Section“.  This was concluded in July 2017. While we have not been active in commercial litigation for a relatively long while, we still believe that this is the way forward.  Questions included whether there should be a commercial section within the civil arm of the Maltese courts, and whether the remit should be wider than matters … Continued

Thoughts on sanctions in the legal system

While reading the news on various media sites today, I have come across a number of irate comments by the general public, over fines which are either excessively high or excessively low. So yesterday, the news hit the media with a man who was fined 20 Euros for masturbating in public, decidedly a lewd act under Maltese criminal law, with minimum and maximum fines between 6.99 and 58 Euro. The fact that the amounts appear laughable is not the fault … Continued