Court is a strange beat to cover, where no two days are the same and where the crucially important mingles freely with the mind-numbingly tedious and the outright fascinating - often simultaneously. This makes summing up a year’s worth of stories—a rough total of about 300 in 2023 — quite the task. Senior court reporter MATTHEW AGIUS looks back at some of the more salient court cases.
Man who says his car was ‘unilaterally and illegally’ repossessed by No Deposit Cars in April 2021, has claimed that officers from the Ħamrun police station had turned up while it was being towed away, threatening to arrest him if he refused to hand over the keys
When the plaintiff filed a police report about his car being stolen, the officers on duty at the Birkirkara police station had refused to act, telling the man that what had taken place was not a criminal offence