by admin | Nov 16, 2022 | Intellectual Property, IP Seminar, Trademark
IURIS attended two webinars organized by the EUIPO and the IPRD within the Malta Commerce Department on the EUIPO’s SME programme and other IP initiatives. During Covid, the EU Commission set up an SME Fund as a grant scheme aimed to provide financial support to EU...
by admin | Nov 14, 2022 | Russia-Ukraine, Sanctions
On the 7th October 2022, the Sanctions Monitoring Board (the ‘SMB’) published a Guidance Note on the Imposition of EU Sanctions concerning Restrictive Measures in Respect of actions undermining or threatening the territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence of...
by admin | Oct 14, 2022 | Landlords, Lease, Property, Rent
The First Hall of the Civil Court has recently delivered a judgment where it examined the actio publiciana and the standard of proof applicants must meet to win their lawsuit. The actio publiciana is not found in the law but is recognised by case-law as a derivative...
by admin | Oct 12, 2022 | Landlords, Lease, Property, Rent
Landlords receive close to €1M in compensation for violation of their right to property In a recent judgement concerning a property leased as a club to the Labour Party under old protective rent laws, a Maltese Court declared the lease to have infringed the landlords’...
by admin | Oct 7, 2022 | Environment, Landlords, Property, Rent
The Maltese Government has recently published a white paper intended to lead to the reform of the law governing agricultural leases. In recent years the number of lawsuits filed by owners of farmland against famers leasing such land has increased, ever since the...