Tag: law
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“Russian law” in Georgia postponed for Parliament’s vote today at noon
The proposed “Russian law” by the Georgian government has been postponed for parliament’s approval for today at noon after widespread protests in Tbilisi yesterday evening. Protesters blocked the entrances of the parliament’s building and were dispersed with riot police and water cannons. The proposed law is an imitation of Russia’s “Anti-foreign interference bill, which bars…
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The first criminal to benefit from the Labour Party’s money laundering reforms: Yorgen Fenech
Last week, Yorgen Fenech asked the court to reduce the extent of the freezing orders over his assets with his lawyer, Charles Mercieca citing the newly government-implemented anti-money laundering reforms. Some of Yorgen Fenech’s assets have been seized by freezing orders by the state, but his biggest freezing orders emanate from a civil case against…
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Parliament before Cabinet – the new Robert Abela legislative procedure
Incredible. Robert Abela has just re-invented the legal procedure without telling anyone in advance about it. He is going to table a law in parliament before presenting it to his cabinet. So, instead of having the law discussed in the cabinet, first, he is going to discuss it with the Opposition before presenting it to…
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The astonishing abuse of the law by Rosinne Cutajar
Rosianne Cutajar’s abuse of power has been discussed already and extensively, however, what hasn’t been discussed is her astonishing and shameless abuse of the law. Rosianne Cutajar sued me over the publication of her story with Yorgen Fenech in A Rent Seeker’s Paradise. When Rosianne sued me, she knew I was right and that she…
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Shaming victims of sexual abuse in court violates their human rights according to the ECHR
I am very blessed to have a lot of smart friends, and I have been pointed out to a sentence by the European Court of Human Rights that has condemned an Italian court for shaming the victim of sexual abuse by questioning and discussing the victim’s sexual orientation and intimate history. The ECHR has stated…
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Here’s something simple the legislator can and should do to protect rape victims
Without going into the debate about the morality of lawyers, which I would be very happy to discuss another time, here is something simple the legislator can do to help protect women. Lawyers defending an individual accused of sexual violence or rape should not be allowed to ask the alleged victim/s questions about what they…
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Here’s a legal lesson on sexual harassment to Ivan Mifsud
This is a gentle reminder to the Dean of the Faculty of Laws, Ivan Mifsud that internal inquiries by the University of Malta do not establish whether a crime has been committed or not. It’s been quite a long tradition of internal inquiries that have protected sexual predators in educational institutions and indeed, internal inquiries…
