An engineering union has vowed to proceed with lawsuits against the profession’s official body, undeterred by a deal ensuring MCAST engineering graduates can obtain their warrant.
The Malta Association of Professional Engineers said on Tuesday that the deal for MCAST students, which will allow them to obtain a warrant once they pass a qualification course, was “hasty and unprecedented” and could only harm the profession.
The qualification course has been approved by the engineering profession board after it was assessed by German engineering standards consultancy ASIIN, which had been commissioned by the government to recommend changes to the MCAST course.
Alfred Degiorgio has been awarded compensation after the constitutional court finds his rights were breached when proceedings over a cash van hold-up dragged on for 17 years
Despite Young Man’s Prison Ordeal, Malta Remains At Odds With Instructions Of EU And Maltese Constitutional Court
By Victor Paul Borg
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The government has failed to apply a fix to the flawed system of State-funded lawyers despite twice being told to do so by Maltese courts as well as an obligation to do so by a four-year-old EU Directive whose deadline for implementation passed 19 months ago, Lovin Malta can reveal.
The Maltese courts spoke up after grappling with the chilling cases of Britons Elton Gregory Dsane and Usumah Hajjaj who were jailed for four years despite lack of evidence of the headline charge of conspiracy, or association as it’s known in law, to import and traffic drugs.