by admin | Feb 19, 2020 | EU, Human Rights
The European Court of Human Rights lambasted the Maltese courts in a decision published last week whereby it held that the delay by the Constitutional Court in expediting constitutional redress proceedings which were instituted in 2016 meant that the fundamental...
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...
by admin | Oct 24, 2019 | Human Rights, Landlords, Property, Rent, Rights
Recently there has been a shift in what Maltese courts consider to be an adequate remedy for landlords whose property rights have been violated by the state. The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has criticised our domestic courts on a number of occasions, for...
by admin | Sep 11, 2019 | Consumer Rights, EU, Human Rights, Landlords, Property, Rent
European Court of Human Rights lambasts the Maltese Constitutional Courts for failing give an effective remedyThe prevailing recent judgments delivered by the Maltese Superior Courts act as a testament to the fact that the Courts of Malta have began to crystallize...
by admin | Jun 26, 2019 | Human Rights, Landlords, Lease, Rent
The Maltese Superior Courts in a momentous socio-legal setting recently took the bull by the horns and confronted a legal hot potato: the landowners’ fundamental right to property. The past seventy years have seen the introduction of laws specifically aimed at...