[Daphne – Malta has never been so corrupted. Can you hear the sound of wild laughter, Johan? That’s all of us who were around in the 1970s and 1980s. Perhaps you should read Carmen Sammut’s EXCELLENT opinion piece about Mintoff – Malta Today on line. That’s what I mean when I said that people who are intelligent and don’t have chips on their shoulder found themselves unable to persist in support for that regime despite having been raised as Mintoffjani.]

hear hear Maria … my thoughts exactly

you should know …. you were one of them.

[Daphne – I honestly don’t think the judge had any untoward motives. I think he was being too literal and legalistic in his interpretation of the law, thus missing its spirit entirely. For all we know, it’s possible he’s feeling extremely embarrassed today, in that way we sometimes do when we realise too late that we’ve made a ‘froga’.]

Perhaps they are waiting for 2013.

That is quite a depressing statement, but it is true.

I have read it more than twice, but I still do not even understand it.

Giovanni, here is my decision.
Yes…
I said No.

Mixing up “afternoon” and “evening” seems to be so obviously a mistake (as opposed to a blatant lie), and seems to have had no bearing at all in the outcome of the custody case in question. I still can’t understand how this poor man could have been charged with perjury over such a triviality.