We are not related.

Criminal libel, on the other hand, still exists in many countries, including most European countries. In Malta many libel cases are not brought before the criminal courts.

The point whether criminal libel is antiquated is a moot point. However once the law exists, it must be applied.

[Daphne – Not necessarily. The Prince of Wales could have had journalists hanged, drawn and quartered, or imprisoned in the Tower of London, for defaming him with that leaked telephone conversation about his desire to be his lover’s tampon.]

http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2010/02/12/the-magistrate-the-magistrates-lover-the-lovers-brother-his-wife-and-the-melita-cable-kaxxa-and-the-picnic-cooler/

Read the above, Marcus.

For those who may have missed Fr Joe Borg’s article of yesterday in The Sunday Times, here’s the link:

http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20100214/religion/unguilded-silence

People are afraid to speak out. That itself speaks volumes.

That is why it is important for a magistrate/judge to have integrity and to follow the proper code of ethics because he has to decide on issues which affect people’s lives.

Now imagine a magistrate/judge deciding on matters of which he was guilty himself albeit unknown by others. Codes of ethics and laws are there for a reason.

I wish everyone of us would ask himself the question of whether we feel comfortable with some of the judiciary presiding over our court cases.

Malta Today is correct. The vast majority of citizens have come to accept that this is just the way things are. Citizens are only willing to go so far.

Personal involvement in a case, and the desire not to further complicate it, are the two factors that lead to this deafening silence.

It’s also human nature at this point in our evolution.

Once it’s over, they just move on with their lives.

It is therefore very comforting to see people like DCG doing just that, with the cojones required to do so.

Fact is part of her life IS dedicated, as one of her professions nonetheless, to doing just that.

Magistrate Scerri Herrera is fuming simply because, as we say in Maltese, she seems to have found a hat that … finally …. fits her.

All the hullaballoo she is createning is mere sabre-rattling.

In my eyes, this is just as bad as Arrigo not stepping down when he should have.

The facts speak for themselves.

Arrogance is the worst characteristic that eventually bites back the hardest.

And it will.

Jail? No worries, DCG. Not unless they want a mob with torches and pitchforks outside Castille.