Oh, come on
timesofmalta.com – Monday, 8th March 2010
“The magistrate also referred to comments about property in Gozo and said that when this case first came up, she referred to the Commission for the Administration of Justice which confirmed there was no wrongdoing.”
timesofmalta.com – Tuesday, 9th March 2010
“The magistrate also referred to allegations that she had made a property deal together with a lawyer. She denied it and said she had declared all her assets to the Commission for the Administration of Justice and was found to have done no wrong.”
timesofmalta.com – Wednesday, 10th March 2010
“The Commission for the Administration of Justice in a short statement this evening said it has taken no decisions to date in any proceedings before it involving Magistrate Consuelo Scerri Herrera.”
timesofmalta.com – Wednesday, 10th March 2010
“Magistrate Herrera’s lawyer, Stephen Tonna Lowell, in a statement this evening said that the Magistrate in her testimony on Monday never said or implied that any proceedings before the commission had been decided.”
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Allajbierek, kullhadd trux mid-derha, barra hi u l-avukat tahha.
timesofmalta.com – 08 March
” She denied it and said she had declared all her assets to the Commission for the Administration of Justice and was found to have done no wrong.”
di-ve.com – 08 March
“She said that the Commission for the Administration of Justice had found no wrongdoing on her part.”
Mhux ta’ b’xejn assumiet li qeghdin jghidu ghaliha meta semet ‘l xi hadd jghid ‘liar’. Il f**king zididta hi, u mid-dehra ghandh minn fejn.
U le, hi u Robert jilghabu it-tiddljwinks fillghaxijja, ghax qaddesin.
Min qallek li qed nghid ghal Robert?
Mela qisu l-film “Blackmail” ta’ Hitchcock.
Is the lawyer going to try to convince the whole courtroom full of people that they MISTOOK what she said?
bhalissa Marisa qed thokk rasha biex tara kif ghandha tghid lil joseph xghandu jghid meta jistaqsuh hux ser jivvotta favur li l-magistrata titnehha minn magistrata wara li nqabbdet tigdeb kemmil darba
l-orrizont ta jumejn ilu… daphne vulgari fil-qorti
l-orizzont ta ghada… ix-xemx hija safra u tonda
If she says she was reported incorrectly by The Times she’ll probably be looking at yet another denial; there are court transcripts after all.
Ah, here’s the thing: I’ve asked and the court transcript is not yet available. This means that the magistrate is relying on her now notorious memory – while the reporters who wrote those stories took notes as she was speaking. I know who I’m more likely to believe. ‘Oh, is that Magistrate Consuelo Scerri in the witness stand? I thought it was Michael Cassar.’ I don’t think so, honey.
Perhaps it’s not that she’s a lying fucker – but that she’s got early onset dementia.
Transcripts have been known to disappear.
I believe that the current Maltese system of appointing the judiciary is the root of all evil. It badly needs to be revised, especially in view of the new offices and tribunals created in recent years.
These include the small claims tribunals and the district courts. In these cases it makes sense that the presiding arbitrators are appointed by the executive because they are appointed for a fixed term and hear cases of less importance.
Magistrates and judges, on the other hand, should be appointed on MERIT and not based on nepotism or with the help of family and friends. This is especially so in Malta where everybody knows everybody else and any sort of favouritism and connection is tangible and visible to one and all.
As an example, in the the UK a barrister is recommended to judgeship based on his or her rank in law school. In Italy, a law graduate has to specialise and study for a further three years as a minimum to become a magistrate. In the US they are elected and voted in.
It may be interesting to find out what happens in other states. The importance of a respectable and upright judiciary is inestimable – perhaps a referendum is in order to amend the constitution.
“Magistrates and judges, on the other hand, should be appointed on MERIT and not based on nepotism or with the help of family and friends. ”
Hear hear, and not just magistrates and judges. The day we get a merit-based system, however, pigs will not only fly but teletransport themselves.
Perhaps the magistrate’s lawyer will explain why he did not correct the various media reports when they were published, instead of waiting until now.
The magistrate and her lawyer had two full days to correct the reports, but they waited until the Commission for the Administration of Justice issued its statement and effectively denied what the magistrate said.
Yes taxpayer I agree. Issa johrog b’xi statement jghid li ma’ kien jaf x’hemm miktub fil-gazzetta jew he MISTOOK.
Taxpayer raises a very important point here.
What happens to cases heard and sentences passed by Magistrate Scerri Herrera if she is eventually found guilty of perjury?
Let us all assume that the court transcripts will not be tampered with. Given what I am reading, I wouldn’t be surprised if that were to happen.
That’s precisely the trouble, when you’re dealing with somebody who’s a court official and who has a whole network of influence in the court.
My confidence in the court is such that I would not put it past them to fiddle around with the transcripts. How sad is it when your trust in one of the highest institutions in the country goes down the drain.
“Let us all hope”, you mean.
If she can’t remember important factors in her own case how are we to trust her with the our cases?
If this defence counsel thinks he can take the sitting magistrate for a ride good luck to him. How naive. How sad. Does he think everyone else is an imbecile ? I am certainly not. And nor are massive numbers of people in this country. Vide this blog.
They cannot fiddle around with the transcripts……. we have it on tape.
Maybe the tape will disappear too or develop a fault. After all, the tape recorder had to be re-started a few times throughout the sitting, right?
You see, that’s the problem when you don’t have much faith left in the system – You start to think that all sorts of things could happen, as they have been known to happen in the past.
I would have imagined that they were taped. So forget about the fiddling bit (this time round).
If ever the transcripts are different to the actual recordings I would expect that at least, now, the newspaper reporters would come all out, be stromg and start some serious investigative journalism themselves.
You seem very sure that the transcripts and the recordings will be available and unsullied.
A lot can be done with a rogue cup of coffee.
Are testimonies in court transcribed/recorded?
Can it be verified what exactly was said or is it just a matter of what gets reported in the media?
[Daphne – Yes, of course they are are recorded and transcribed. But that is not the point. The point is that the magistrate sought to give the impression, under oath, that the Commission for the Administration of Justice hasn’t found her to be involved in any wrong-doing. She left out the words ‘s’issa’, which changes the meaning of the sentence completely, the intention being to clear herself before the court and make me out to be a liar. It’s not a coincidence that every reporter present, and I (I took copious notes) understood the same thing.]