by admin | Jan 15, 2020 | Adjudicating Panel, Landlords, Lease, Property, Rent, Residential
Two Legal Notices have recently been published following the enactment of the Private Residential Leases Act. Legal Notice 354 of 2019 on the Adjudicating Panel for Private Residential Leases Regulations, 2019. The Adjudicating Panel for Private Residential Leases is...
by admin | Jan 7, 2020 | Landlords, Law, Lease, Property, Rent
Private residential leases act enacted The much debated residential lease bill has finally been passed by Parliament through Act XXVIII of 2019. The Private Residential Leases Act addresses current housing realities and aims to protect tenants from abusive practices,...
by admin | Nov 22, 2019 | Civil Damages, Directors, Directors’ Liability, Employee Rights, Personal Injury
Mark McBride vs MK Leisure Limited dealt with an injury of an employee at the place of work. The plaintiff worked as a pastry chef with MK Leisure Limited. On the 28th of December, 2007 he was cleaning the inside of a cooker when he cut his finger so badly that he had...
by admin | Nov 4, 2019 | Landlords, Lease, Property, Rent, Uncategorized
Court of Appeal acknowledges rent laws violation of owners’ right to property and increases compensation A recent decision by the Court of Appeal in Anna Galea et vs L-Avukat Generali u Saint Julians Band Club has awarded further damages to property owners aggrieved...
by admin | Oct 30, 2019 | Daphne Caruana Galizia, Free Speech, Hate Speech, Human Rights, Libel, PEP, Press Freedom
The Court of Appeal in its Inferior competence has recently overturned a decision taken by the Court of Magistrates (Malta) back in October 2018 by virtue of which the newspaper ‘The Malta Independent’ was condemned to pay €3,000 in libel damages to two auditors...
