Tag: Joe Mifsud
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Fascism rising
When all else fails, try using excessive authority so that maybe you’ll start winning again. The scent of desperation. The outgoing President of the Labour Pary gave a fascist speech yesterday at the Labour Party’s General Conference. Check out her quote taken from an article by The Malta Independent. This is stuff that comes out…
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Big mouth strikes again
Magistrate Joe Mifsud was recently spotted at the La Valette Club business lounge of the Malta International Airport. I did not ask my sources where he was heading to, but those who saw him at the lounge were shocked to overhear him speaking loudly with unidentified strangers on ongoing court cases and inquiries. Where is…
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It’s over too for the outlandish-women-hating district court magistrate Joe Mifsud
In one of the last outlandish statements he will ever make in a district court, Magistrate Joe Mifsud stated that dangerous teenagers (they are 16 years old and older) who knifed and robbed another boy in Valletta, don’t deserve to be jailed because they and society are better off if they go back to their…
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A reshuffle that protects the judiciary from the consequences of its actions
By executing a judicial reshuffle to remove Magistrate Donatella Frendo Dimech from the financial crimes court, Chief Justice Mark Chetcuti is not using the same standards he had applied with Magistrate Joe Mifsud over his irregular behaviour. Magistrate Joe Mifsud was actually reported to the Commission for the Administration of Justice by the Chief Justice.…
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Breaking: the judicial reshuffle revealed
Following the news that Magistrate Donatella Frendo Dimech is to be demoted from the financial crimes court to a district court, I have received news about the incoming judicial reshuffle. Magistrate Donatella Frendo Dimech will be replaced by Magistrate Leonard Caruana who is currently, already handling cases of tax evasion. These Magistrates will be conducting…
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Biting a nose was never in my hand-to-hand combat manual
Biting your adversary in a fight is usually useful while your arms and legs are locked, but biting the nose of your adversary is a kind of attack that is rather quite difficult to imagine if you are a man. I’ve seen women biting men and women in fights, and rarely have I seen men…
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The collapse of standards in the judiciary
Magistrate Donatella Frendo Dimech has not given up on her consistent attacks on the prosecutor, but Donatella Frenco Dimech who is subject to serious accusations of improper behaviour, is not the only magistrate who is putting a stain on the judiciary’s reputation. Another rambunctious magistrate is Joe Mifsud who, apart from also bullying a prosecutor…
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Magistrate Joe Mifsud has just refused an arraignment
In another gaffe by the impeachable magistrate Joe Mifsud, today, Mifsud just refused to sign off an arraignment as duty magistrate while the accused is still locked up. Arraignments have to take place within 48 hours of the arrest. The magistrate has cited a lack of staff for his refusal but this is rather unprecedented…
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Impeachable Magistrates: Joe Mifsud and Donatella Frendo Dimech
There are two very impeachable magistrates right now – one is Donatello Frendo Dimech and the other is Joe Mifsud. The case of Donatella Frendo Dimech involves allegations of corruption, cover-up, holding irregular meetings with the lawyers of the defendants of her court, bullying the prosecution, dining with the defendants, and distorting the court process…
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Can’t prosecute me if I’m friends with a magistrate
In Malta, suspected criminals who are politicians have a habit of hanging out with magistrates whilst avoiding prosecution. Here is Labour MP Carmelo Abela with Magistrate Joe Mifsud during the ?ejtun Festa. Carmelo Abela was investigated by the police over the attempted bank robbery of the HSBC building in Qormi. Mark CamilleriWebsite Editor Historian and…
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Who is going to stand up for this woman?
The collapse in rule of law is pervasive in the whole system and there have literally been various casualties as a cause of the collapse of the rule of law with one of the latest victims being Miriam Pace, a woman buried in her own home by building contractors. There has been no justice for…

