since 2005: blogging about law & politics
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The P.N. must die
The weeks of long knives at the PN HQ have just been put in temporary suspension as an apparent reprieve has been found. ‘Party stalwart’ Louis Galea described as the man who transformed the PN into a ‘slick political machine’ between 1977 and 1987 has been appointed as AZAD Head and given the mission to…
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The People vs the Government of Malta
Last night, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe voted overwhelmingly to approve a report on Daphne Caruana Galizia’s assassination and the state of the rule of law in Malta. The resolution listed a series of “serious concerns” over the investigation into the murder of Maltese journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia, and demanded the setting…
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The Future is Ours
Ahora tienen suerte los que nunca tienen suerte Y los que murieron podrán evitar la muerte Las cartas me hablan de lo lindo y de lo feo Tus manos las leo y te cuento lo que veo Estan son mis predicciones pa’ que no nos tropecemos El futuro es nuestro cuando ya lo conocemos En…
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Parliament Strikes Back
Speaker Bercow stood up and made a statement. He did so from his position within an old and respectable institution and what he said was firmly embedded and rooted in tradition. It was not tradition for the sake of tradition but rather the kind of tradition that forms part of an ongoing process of institutional…
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Unpopular Representation
“(An MP) his unbiased opinion, his mature judgment, his enlightened conscience, he ought not to sacrifice to you, to any man, or to any set of men living. … Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion” –…
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Judge Grixti’s Catch-22
“They don’t have to show us Catch-22,” the old woman answered. “The law says they don’t have to.”“What law says they don’t have to?”“Catch-22.” Catch-22, Joseph Heller Konrad Mizzi, the government and anybody with an interest in transforming the Mizzi/Schembri Panama Papers issue into yet another story of apparent ‘allegations’ are crying victory all over…
servis legis summus ut liberi esse possimus