NEWS
MBR Notice on penalties and COVID-19 (Corona Virus)
On the 25th March 2020, given the current critical situation due to Covid-19, the Malta Business Registry (MBR) published a new notice on its website in relation to penalties for late filing of Annual Returns and Financial Statements. In view of the recent outbreak of...
Covid-19 (Corona Virus) – Further financial aid by Maltese Government to mitigate effects of economic slowdown caused by pandemic
The Covid-19 coronavirus has caused an upheaval not only in the way we live, but more worryingly, in the way we work. The speed with which it has spread in Europe, and across the globe, has caught many by surprise. Little could be done to avoid the impact it has had,...
Understanding the Legal Implications of Covid-19 (Corona Virus) : can the outbreak of the pandemic be considered a ‘force majeure’ event?
It is definitely no open secret that Malta, as much as the rest of the world, is presently undergoing an unprecedented crisis affecting individuals coming from every walk of life. The outbreak of the pandemic within our shores has triggered the shutdown of businesses...
Understanding the Legal Implications of Covid-19 (Corona Virus) from a socio-economic perspective : the first steps towards weathering the crisis
The recent outbreak of the Novel Covid-19 (Corona Virus) pandemic in Malta has propelled the Government to introduce measures principally aimed at containing the virus from a public sanitary and security aspect, and at adjusting the socio-economic as well as the legal...
Iuris important notice on Covid-19
In line with the precautionary directives to prevent the spread of Covid-19 in Malta Iuris Advocates has likewise taken measures to comply with such directives and recommendations to secure the well-being of our staff, clients and the public in general. This may well...
‘Forced landlord-tenant relationship’ created by current rent regime declared unconstitutional once again
The Maltese Constitutional Court in its decision of the 19th of February 2020 has consolidated the reasoning recently embraced by the Maltese Superior Courts in the context of affording an effective remedy to tenants, who have long time been discriminated against in...
The European Court of Human Right slams the Maltese courts
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...
Liability of airline in cases of scalding due to spilt coffee during a flight
A recent interesting decision of the Court of Justice of the European Union concerned the liability or otherwise of an airline for harm caused to a passenger due to the spilling of coffee during a flight. The case was filed by a young girl who was seeking compensation...
Private Residential Lease Contracts and Adjudicating Panel
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...
Amendments to rent laws
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,...
Employee compensated after injury at the workplace
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...
Band Club Leases
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...
Court of Appeal overturns Court of Magistrates libel judgment in a victorious ruling for freedom of the press
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...
Maltese Court evicts tenants after finding rent laws violate human rights of property owner
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...
The Rights of Air Passengers under the EU Regulation
In a recent decision, the European Court of Justice, ruled that in cases of connecting flights which are the subject of a single reservation, the air carrier performing the first flight is obliged to pay compensation to passengers if they suffer long...
IURIS was at the Malta Innovation Summit
We are very pleased to have had Diana Spiteri, Head IURIS Business Solutions talk about #Social Innovation and the importance of #Social Impact and the sense of #Purpose in business today. Let's make the world a better place by doing things...
Branding and Trademark Protection
The importance of brands for businesses can never be overstated enough in view of the fact that brands represent the overall impact of a business on consumers. The concept of corporate identity and corporate image is becoming ever more significant also...
Article on ‘counterfeit hotspots in malta that brand owners should have on their enforcement radar’
Sarah Galea of IURIS Advocates has contributed to an article published on the World Trademark Review on counterfeiting in Malta. The article notes that, due to its location between Europe and North Africa, Malta is an important Mediterranean port for...