Another interesting point to consider: Vincenso de Mel is some seven years young than the magistrate.

[Daphne – Well, if you look at the pattern of the magistrate’s extra-curricular activities, you’ll notice that she goes for those who would regard her in some way as superior: either socially, or because of her status as a magistrate, or younger and hence more vulnerable men. Hence the stream of policemen, working-class or lower-middle-class men who are younger, etc. I don’t have any indication that the magistrate has succeeded sexually with somebody good-looking, self-confident, fairly well off, her age and tal-pepe.]

With all due respect to Ta’ Ninu – this has got nothing to do with the EU.

Switzerland, Norway, Andorra, San Marino, Monaco… many countries are not in the EU and they do not have such banana-republic messes in their public administrations. The same applies to Canada, Australia, the US, and Israel.

The point is whether we belong with the West or with the Third World. (The West includes the EU, of course; but the EU is NOT the West.)

If we are a truly Western country, then our society should reject such shady, dubious situations.

Dr CPSH, and those of her ilk, would be fine in a backward, Third World country, verging on Failed State status.

In Western countries, where the State not only functions approximately well but also has the semblance of something respectable, such charades are instantly spotted and action taken.

Vincenso de Mel was married with kids. Then he and his spouse each went their own way, and Vincenso got married a second time, again with kids.

It would seem that between the first marriage and the second marriage there was a ‘magistrate interlude’.

Now the point is: was this magistrate interlude a catalyst in the first marital breakup?

I ask these questions because if there is a change of government, a new Labour government might consider seriously “promoting” Dr Scerri Herrera to judge.

As you Daphne rightly pointed out, these “embellishments” of one’s personal CV do have a bearing on the worldview of the person sitting on the bench, and, conceivably, on the outcome of the judicial deliberations.

Justice must not only be done, but be seen to be done. This is of utmost importance if the well-being of society is to be ensured.

I don’t think that Magistrate Scerri Herrera is of the right moral rectitude to sit on the bench.

I well remember that piece valued at over 100,000 sterling. Good luck to them as long as it was not purchased through ill-gotten gains.
More seriously though Daphne, I am disappointed that people who should know better are abdicating their responsibility in supporting you and indeed defending your interests. Even more so, I want to know what the government intends to do to clean out the police and the judiciary. As far as I am concerned this is an unacceptable situation in a country, now a member of the EU. Are we back to being a banana republic?

I wonder what he got in return.

Serious enough to attract Kevin Ellul Bonici.

Oh, the plot thickens.

Ask at the law courts for Vincenso de Mel, and every lawyer and his brother will point him out to you. The man is quite well-known for his gentle manners and easy-going nature.