Comments on: A letter from the Office of the Chief Justice to Malta Today https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2010/02/a-letter-from-the-office-of-the-chief-justice-to-malta-today/ Daphne Caruana Galizia is a journalist working in Malta. Thu, 18 Feb 2010 22:47:01 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: il-Ginger https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2010/02/a-letter-from-the-office-of-the-chief-justice-to-malta-today/#comment-39787 Thu, 18 Feb 2010 22:47:01 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=5014#comment-39787 In reply to La Redoute.

seconded

]]> By: La Redoute https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2010/02/a-letter-from-the-office-of-the-chief-justice-to-malta-today/#comment-39786 Thu, 18 Feb 2010 19:17:43 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=5014#comment-39786 In reply to Twanny.

Twanny:

If you need legal advice, it’s best not to rely on second hand information published in a newspaper.

]]> By: M. Caruana https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2010/02/a-letter-from-the-office-of-the-chief-justice-to-malta-today/#comment-39785 Thu, 18 Feb 2010 09:52:33 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=5014#comment-39785 Malta Today is steadily becoming a haven for those shouldering big chips.

]]> By: David Buttigieg https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2010/02/a-letter-from-the-office-of-the-chief-justice-to-malta-today/#comment-39784 Thu, 18 Feb 2010 09:48:35 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=5014#comment-39784 In reply to gwap.

Gwap, (u vera gwap)

To simplify matters further for you Daphne never said “I petitioned”!

]]> By: La Redoute https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2010/02/a-letter-from-the-office-of-the-chief-justice-to-malta-today/#comment-39783 Thu, 18 Feb 2010 08:39:03 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=5014#comment-39783 In reply to gwap.

Raphael Vassallo’s article also said “However, it transpired that a meeting was held between Scerri-Herrera and Chief Justice Vincent De Gaetano on the same morning of her abstention”

Who was Raphael Vassallo quoting then? His claim was denied by the office of the Chief Justice.

]]> By: Twanny https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2010/02/a-letter-from-the-office-of-the-chief-justice-to-malta-today/#comment-39782 Thu, 18 Feb 2010 08:30:28 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=5014#comment-39782 So tell us – why did you say you “intended” to petition the Chief Justice when having a lawyer hubby you probably already knew it was useless?

[Daphne – Of course it’s not useless.]

]]> By: John Doe https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2010/02/a-letter-from-the-office-of-the-chief-justice-to-malta-today/#comment-39781 Thu, 18 Feb 2010 08:13:42 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=5014#comment-39781 Dear Daphne

I quite agree with you. You only wrote that you intended to make a petition which indicated a future action that you would have resorted to. However I feel Mr Vassallo only misquoted what you wrote (not taking in consideration the present and future tense). I don’t think he intended to lie if there was no other reason to do so.

]]> By: La Redoute https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2010/02/a-letter-from-the-office-of-the-chief-justice-to-malta-today/#comment-39780 Thu, 18 Feb 2010 07:37:53 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=5014#comment-39780 They’d better stand by their story. No one else is doing so – not even their story subject .

]]> By: maryanne https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2010/02/a-letter-from-the-office-of-the-chief-justice-to-malta-today/#comment-39779 Thu, 18 Feb 2010 06:50:20 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=5014#comment-39779 Will it be the usual ‘Malta Today stands by its story’? Their credibility is always increasing its percentage points.

]]> By: gwap https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2010/02/a-letter-from-the-office-of-the-chief-justice-to-malta-today/#comment-39778 Thu, 18 Feb 2010 06:09:25 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=5014#comment-39778 so when you said you were petitioning chief justice you were either lying or The Office of the Chief Justice is lying. ….Raphael vassallo was quoting your blog when when he wrote about it

I think its curtains and you have been check mated!

[Daphne – Nobody was lying except Raphael Vassallo in Malta Today. Unlike many others in this country whose English is actually pidgin, Mr Vassallo is a specialist in the English language and the son of a professor in the field who has taught the subject at tertiary level for as long as I have known him. Mr Vassallo knows, therefore, that in English ‘I am petitioning the chief justice’ is an indication of immediate intent used in substitute for the future tense, rather than – as it has been interpreted by the pidgin lot – a description of a current action (present tense).]

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