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Three judges on Wednesday dismissed as “fictitious” a €2 million claim filed by a fish farm operator over a 2006 incident when a vessel rammed
The Constitutional Court has confirmed compensation awarded to the owners of a Paola property burdened by a protected lease for the past 30 years, in a decision
Land owners in Siġġiewi who filed proceedings in court more than 30 years ago have won €20,000 in moral damages after they were forced to abandon their case when one of the volumes of their drawn-out case went missing. The Constitutional Court found that the owners’ rights to a fair hearing had been breached when the case before the Rural Lease Control Board had to be abandoned because of the missing file with more than 10 years of documentation, transcripts and court minutes. The court found this first volume of the case had so much evidence inside it that it could not be reconstruct...
A fishing operator cleared of fuel smuggling has successfully challenged the seizure of his fishing vessel by customs authorities before the court of appeal, which also suggested amending the current legal scenario. Paul Piscopo, owner of the trawler MFV Alexandra I, together with his wife Alexandra, had filed an application before the civil courts requesting the release of their vessel seized by customs in 2009. The vessel had been purchased from Egypt, setting sail for Malta with 25,000 litres of diesel on board. Yet, after reaching home port with some 17,000 litres of fuel, its owners re...
€1,000 compensation for innocent woman forced to search her own faeces for drugs The woman was made to endure a vaginal examination, and was administered a laxative before being made to search through her own faeces 17 March 2021, 1:49pm by Matthew Agius A Dutch woman has been awarded €1,000 in moral damages by the Constitutional Court for being made to search through her own faeces after being incorrectly suspected of drug trafficking in 2015. The woman, Jennifer Koster, had also been subjected to intimate searches. She had filed constitutional proceedings, claiming a breach of her ri...