Tag: constitutional court
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Constitutional Court rejects ADPD appeal on human rights and electoral law
The Constitutional Court has rejected a complaint filed by ADPD–The Green Party, saying it has no authority to rule on the matter. The case focused on Articles 52 and 52A of the Constitution. The Court said the Constitution does not explain how to deal with possible conflicts between its own provisions. Because of this, it…
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A political sentence with ugly consequences
In his sentence uploaded here, Judge Toni Abela made incorrect statements which can be counteracted with a consistent series of European case law. The Judge handed a very political sentence which also included personal remarks taken from articles by Saviour Balzan. At best it’s sloppy work and at worse it’s a sentence aimed directly at…
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Victory at the Courts by Dar Camilleri
We have long expressed our protest at how the National Book Council has systematically discriminated against our publishing house whilst enthusiastically supporting our competitors. This discrimination has come at a significant material expense for us. Today, we have received the first ever official confirmation by the local Courts that we are right. Three years ago…
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A Constitutional Court that has never rejected the entry of foreign warships into national harbours
If you stretch the Labour government’s arguments on neutrality too far, you may even come to the conclusion that Malta’s membership with the European Union breaks Malta’s constitutional neutrality. In fact, I remember very well how Dom Mintoff and the Labour Party also made these arguments during their opposition campaign to Malta’s membership with the…
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Calin Georgescu barred by Constitutional Court from contesting elections
Calin Georgescu lost his appeal at the Constitutional Court to challenge the Central Electoral Bureau’s decision to bar him from contesting the presidential elections. Calin Georgescu was arrested and barred from contesting the presidential elections after Prosecutors found evidence that his political campaign was funded by the Russian government. The Romanian Prosecutor is conducting an…
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All power back to the FIAU
Last week, the Constitutional Court issued a ruling that will have a significant and decisive impact on the administrative penalties imposed by the FIAU. The Constitutional Court upheld the FIAU’s decision to fine Phoenix Payments Ltd. up to €435,000 which was previously challenged in Court. The Court’s decision contradicts and supersedes previous Court decisions which…
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Some points on the Constitutional Court’s sentence over N Trust’s case against the FIAU
After reading the Judge’s sentence of N Trust’s constitutional case against the FIAU, I admit that it makes for interesting reading and the sentence makes some interesting points, but I can’t verify its legal validity as of yet. I still need to speak to more lawyers and experts to understand the sentence and its implications.…
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Maybe, if Gafa did his job, I wouldn’t have had any chats to publish
I respectfully disagree with the Court’s decision to clamp down on me for publishing Yorgen Fenech’s chats on my website. There are no chats published that are directly related to the murder case, and I assume that they may be used to describe his character, as with other information that is in the public domain.…
