Fired Planning Commission chair threatens to sue government unless reinstated
Architect Simon Saliba was sacked from his position with the Planning Commission after 11 NGOs had called for his removal due to his ‘arrogant attitude and out-dated mindset’
25 February 2021, 2:00pm
by Matthew Agius
Saliba was removed from his post last November.
Last July, 11 NGOs had called for Saliba’s removal from his position as Planning Commission chairperson due to his “arrogant attitude and out-dated mindset” which, they said, was obstructing the right to a fair planning process.
The judicial protest was filed in the First Hall of the Civil Court this morning by lawyer Louise Ann Pulis, against the minister for the Environment, Climate Change and Planning and the Planning Authority.
Prior to 1
st January, 2021, the cross-border
recognition and enforcement of insolvency proceedings and
judgements between the European Union
(
EU ) and the United Kingdom
(
UK ) was largely consolidated within
the framework of the European Insolvency (Recast) Regulation (the
EIR ) which generally attributed
automatic recognition to such proceedings and/or judgements.
Following the end of the Brexit transitional period on the
31
st December 2020, the EIR no longer applies to
the UK. Consequently, insolvency proceedings opened in the UK after
31
st December 2020 will not benefit from automatic
recognition.
The EIR applies a set of common rules in determining the
jurisdiction to open insolvency proceedings. Article 19 of the EIR
Bill regulating legal profession will establish lawyers register while addressing Moneyval concerns
The bill is set to be the first piece of legislation regulating the profession
16 February 2021, 7:34pm
by Nicole Meilak
A bill regulating the legal profession entered into its second parliamentary reading on Tuesday, with the legislation looking to introduce a register of legal professionals while addressing Moneyval inefficiencies.
Among the amendments in the establishment of a register containing information on all advocates and legal procurators holding a warrant. The register will be made available to the public free of charge.
The Chamber of Advocates have long been pushing for a lawyers register, but was displeased with the bill when it was first published in December 2020. The Chamber said that the bill was a significant departure from the draft presented to them, and that its only aim is to achieve the minimum requirements set out in the Moneyval report.
It is not rare for two people to each own a tenement (often a parcel of land) next to each other, not knowing exactly where one’s ends and the other’s begins. With buildings, this is not as big of a problem, for they have walls. But with parcels of lands, the parameter of lands is usually imprecisely indicated by the position of decade-old trees or old rubble walls, and therefore, the problem of boundaries is much more common. And as the defiled saying goes: for every problem, there is a lawsuit.
This is not just a problem of our time. Since Roman times, there existed an action at law for situations where the boundaries of contiguous estates were uncertain. For many of us, a border is simply the notion of separation between two spaces, but for Ancient Romans, it was much more than that.
Guarantees offering general and special hypothecs in favour of a bank, more than adequate security
The Court held that HSBC Bank Malta offer adequate security for the claims the bank has against the defendants
7 February 2021, 3:48pm
by Malcolm Mifsud
A precautionary guarnishee order was filed by HSBC Bank Malta plc, in the acts of the case ‘HSBC Bank Malta plc v. Boris Arcidiacono Limited, Arcidiacono Limited, Barc Company Limited, Boris Arcidiacono and Carina Arcidiacono’ before the First Hall Civil Court presided over by Judge Robert G. Mangion. This guarnishee order was issued for the amount of two hundred ninety nine thousand, one hundred and fourteen euro and three cents (€299,144.03) which allegedly was the balance due on a banking facility granted to Boris Arcidiacono Limited, with the rest of the defendants acting as sureties thereof.