Last month, this newspaper published a boxed registrar of companies advert, in terms of Subsection (2) Art 325 of the 1995 Companies Act, advising all and sundry that the company registered in its records with the Number C443, The National Bank of Malta Limited, would be struck off its register – and, hence, out of living existence – if, by March 7, 2021 nobody or no entity comes forward with valid reasons why it, the registry, should not do so.
The Number C443 is clearly suggestive of the notion that, ever since company registration with this country’s official registrar became law after, first, the Commercial Partnerships Ordnance of 1962 and, later, when the present Companies Act was passed in 1995, this banking company was, in fact, one of the earlier companies to formally register in conformity with the new law.
A Dutch woman who was made to search her own excrement for drugs has lost her case against the police over her claim that they violated her human rights.
Even though no drugs were found, the judge ruled that the police acted on a reasonable suspicion given that the woman’s boyfriend was a suspected drug trafficker.
Jennifer Koster claimed she had been subjected to inhumane treatment by the police after she was arrested in 2015 on suspicion of drug trafficking.
She told the First Hall of the Civil Court in its constitutional jurisdiction that she had been arbitrarily detained and kept under arrest for 16 hours despite repeatedly insisting that she was not carrying drugs.