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A man suffered serious injuries after he drove his car into a tree on Monday morning.  In a statement on Monday, the police said a Mitsubishi being driven

Mark Lorry Said had been on bail for corruption of minors on charges issued back in 2008

Gozitan lawyers will return to the Gozo court on Tuesday after Justice Minister Edward Zammit Lewis promised to tackle their dire working conditions.  Dur

Lawyers did not turn up for work at the Gozo law courts on Wednesday, forcing presiding magistrates to postpone all sittings. The lawyers are demanding improvement in the environment and facilities of the courthouse, a cramped old building in the Citadel of Victoria. Magistrates Joe Mifsud and Simone Grech postponed all their sittings after the lawyers complained they did not have the basic tools to work with. On Monday, a group of 20 lawyers had appeared before Grech to inform the court that u...

Lawyers in ‘boycott’ of Gozo court due to rampant administrative problems 20 lawyers normally working in the Gozo courts will boycott sittings until administrative shortcomings are addressed 1 June 2021, 4:33pm by Matthew Agius A group of 20 lawyers who normally work in the Gozo courts have informed those courts of their intention to boycott sittings, until numerous administrative shortcomings are addressed. In a note dictated to the court on Tuesday and reproduced in every sitting, the la...

A hairdresser ended up being rushed to hospital for treatment on Friday after he was stabbed by a client who was irked at being made to wait for a haircut.  The incident happened on Friday afternoon in a Marsalforn apartment.  Appearing before magistrate Simone Grech on Saturday, Abdarrouf Al-Mabrouk Keshendra, 29, from Libya but who lives in Marsa, pleaded not guilty to seriously injuring the Ghanian hairdresser. He was also charged with carrying a penknife at the time the crime was committe...

Abdarrouf Al-Mabrouk M. Keshenda was charged with injuring the barber and carrying a knife in public without a permit

A 42-year-old man was arraigned before the Gozo courts on Wednesday, accused of the murder of an Egyptian man who was shot twice in January 2018. Aleksandr Stojanovic, a Serbian national who lives in Safi, pleaded not guilty to having murdered father-of-two Walid Salah Abdel Motaleb Mohammed, who was found dead in a remote field in Għarb, Gozo, on January 22, 2018. The police said investigators had established that the accused was with the victim just hours before. The victim was found lying ...

Chief Justice Mark Chetcuti has reassigned all of Magistrate Monica Vella’s criminal and civil case in the Gozo court, with sources saying this was down to slow throughput of work.  The decision was communicated last Thursday when lawyers with pending cases before Magistrate Vella were informed about the change. All civil and criminal cases were reassigned to Magistrate Brigette Sultana except those cases which Magistrate Vella had deferred for judgment.  Magistrate Vella has now been assig...