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The supremacy of our Constitution is the keystone upon which the entire Constitutional structure rests. Our courts are empowered to strike down laws which are found to be inconsistent with the Constitution and in particular those laws which breach the fundamental rights and freedoms of the individual set forth in our Constitution. The European Court of Human Rights and the Constitutional Court of Malta have in a number of cases ruled that the infliction of an administrative penalty in a case where it retained its criminal character could only be imposed by an independent and impartial court. ...

Bernard Grech calls on government to withdraw bill amending the Interpretation Act While he said that the Nationalist Party will happily help with legal amendments, Bernard Grech insisted that the bill must be scrapped entirely 17 March 2021, 5:55pm by Nicole Meilak Opposition leader Bernard Grech called on Justice Minister Edward Zammit Lewis to withdraw the bill amending the Interpretation Act, saying that it isn’t faithful towards the Constitution. During his speech in Parliament, Grech argued that the bill takes away the individual’s right to a fair hearing and takes away from fundam...

Nationalist Party leader Bernard Grech on Wednesday called on the government to withdraw the bill amending the Interpretation Act, saying the proposed amendment will take away the fundamental rights of the Maltese and Gozitans.  “The Nationalist Party will continue working to ensure that the rights of the Maltese and Gozitans are protected. We will not stand for such an amendment and call for the Bill to be scrapped immediately.” Grech was speaking in Parliament during the debate on the Bill to amend the Interpretation Act.  The Nationalist Party called for the bill to be dropped after ...

While the country is flabbergasted by the way the COVID-19 virus – and its mutations – has suddenly been spreading all over Malta, a very serious political issue has been brewing almost outside the introspection of the public eye. I am referring to a proposed new paragraph to be added to the Interpretation Act. The stated objective of the proposed amendment is “to regulate the interpretation of the classification of laws or punishments as criminal in nature with particular reference to the situation where an Act confers a power upon a public authority which exercises regulatory, supervi...

Parliament is currently debating Bill 198 ,amending the Interpretation Act. On the face of it, the bill appears to be an innocuous piece of draft legislation. In fact, however, it contains provisions that undermine the supremacy of the constitution and make nonsense of the review by our Constitutional Court of government actions. Prominent constitutional experts, including Giovanni Bonello, a former judge of the European Court of Human Rights, and Anthony Borg Barthet, a former attorney general and former member of the European Court of Justice, have criticised its provisions and have alerted...