Chief Justice admonishes AG, police on 2013 oil scandal: Are you waiting for everyone to die?
Chief Justice slams police and AG over years-long delay and extensions to oil scandal hearings
18 July 2021, 9:21am
by Matthew Vella
The Constitutional Court, presided by the Chief Justice, said that in 27 sittings for the compilation of evidence against Mifsud (pictured above), nothing had happened in 15 of these sittings.
The Enemalta oil scandal’s prosecutions of 2013 were crippled by court delays from the prosecution and the actions of the Attorney General, with a majority of court cases achieving “absolutely nothing”, Malta’s Chief Justice and two judges declared in a fair hearing complaint.
Thrill Of The Chase returns for Australian Cup Carnival
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2021-02-14T08:00+11:00
AUSTRALIAâS only free-to-air greyhound racing television program THRILL OF THE CHASE returns this Sunday on 7TWO for an exciting three week run â covering all the action from the 2021 TAB Australian Cup Carnival from The Meadows.
Hosted by race caller and greyhound trainer James Van de Maat, with panellists â George Farrugia and Mitch Ebeyer, THRILL OF THE CHASE promises viewers all the latest news and opinions from on and off the track, and live TAB odds.
Kicking off the carnival is a blockbuster card of racing at The Meadows this weekend featuring three group 1 invitationals â the Temlee (525m), Rookie Rebel (600m) and Zoom Top (725m) â with over half a million dollars in prizemoney up for grabs.
Former Enemalta chairman Tancred Tabone had his rights breached when he was forced to testify before a parliamentary committee over his alleged involvement in the oil scandal but this breach was not enough to annul the pending criminal proceedings against him, a judge has ruled.
Tabone failed to convince the court that the testimony before the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) had breached his human right to a fair hearing to the extent that the criminal proceedings against him had to be dropped.
Mr Justice Joseph R Micallef, presiding over the First Hall of the Civil Court in its constitutional jurisdiction, said that although the court had found that there had been a violation of Tabone’s fundamental right it did not see as appropriate his request for the annulment and suspension of the proceedings pending before the Magistrates’ Court and his release from those proceedings.