I meant to address that to “n”

Then again, maybe you could go and seek solace in a Nutella jar.

If she’s claiming that any terminology is insulting (rather than defamatory), then why waste police time and public funds to prove it, rather than pay any court expenses out of her own pocket?

First, I would like to say I really admire what you are doing. Sticking to your guns and going up against the (twisted) judiciary takes guts.

Second, I’d like to say thank you. I always thought Consuelo was a man – going by the name in newspaper reports.

And third, is a genuine question.

How legal/illegal is copy/pasting a photo from someone’s facebook account onto a blog without their permission? When it’s for journalism, can one do that?

[Daphne – Yes. You can do it even if it’s NOT for journalism. Basically, if you don’t want people to capture your party photographs or email screen-shots of your bitching about other people on your Facebook wall, to the people you are bitching about, just don’t do it. If I had young children, for example, I would never be so seriously stupid as to upload reams of photographs of them on Facebook.]

If I were the magistrate, I’d be more pissed off about that than about the things said about me. Especially if they were true!

@Lino, never have truer words been said but hey, where is everybody, meaning the authorities, the Commission, the Institute etc etc? Sad to say, we have a load of cowardly wan—s up there.
Daphne, please know we are totally behind you.

Issa jkellmu JPO.

Bringing up children is the parent’s responsibility not the school’s. Even Daphne was educated in a Catholic school; the difference is that she was brought up by responsible parents.

I tend to agree with you that I prefer to read Daphne’s opinions on much more important issues. Her biweekly columns in The Malta Independent are always insightful.

Nevertheless, there are times in life when we, let alone a good journalist, have to take a stand even if those words we utter will ruffle some important feathers. That is the beauty of a democratic system.

To flourish, democracy needs investigative journalists to tell us what is going on behind the scenes. Democracy doesn’t just mean having the right to vote in office politicians to represent us.

You must admit, whatever the outcome of this saga, people look at the members of the judiciary a lot differently now.

Interestingly, the magistrate in question testified in yesterday’s “defamation” case regarding how she felt regarding the use of the words “sow”, “45-year-old”, “ugly” -and yet, she seemingly found no objection to various references regarding her unbecoming sexual liaisons (unbecoming for a magistrate, that is).

“Sow” and “ugly” are mere insults. They are not defamatory in any way. As for references to her age being defamatory, what can one say?