Justyne Caruana – don't rush to exculpate her
Mur xommu!
I’m sorry but I was out all day and haven’t been able to write exactly what I think about Justyne Caruana’s mealy-mouthed playing around with words in her statement today, released almost a day after Chris Said resigned.
Justyne Caruana was definitely Anthony Xuereb’s lawyer. She was the lawyer who helped him try to achieve the despicable objective of seizing full custody of his baby from its mother, who he actually KICKED OUT OF THE HOUSE WHEN THE BABY WAS JUST THREE WEEKS OLD AND BEING BREAST-FED.
Yes, that’s right – Justyne Caruana fought the case for a man who locked the mother of his newborn baby out of the house and denied her access.
She tried to secure full custody of the baby for him and leave the mother out of the equation on the grounds that she was ‘mad’ and had ‘postnatal depression’ (for God’s sake, the mother of a newborn).
Chris Said was the mother’s lawyer. The mother was awarded full custody of the child, the magistrate having been most unimpressed by Xuereb’s unpleasant behaviour, and Xuereb never forgave Said. He pursued him with a proverbial axe all the way through the system, and could only have know what to do – the process is extremely technical – with advice from Caruana.
There are those who don’t believe – I certainly am one of them – that it wasn’t a coincidence that the challenge was filed just a short while after Chris Said spoke in parliament about how he clearly heard Caruana vote with the government instead of with the opposition in that infamous furore some months ago. Of course she didn’t file the challenge herself – she doesn’t practise criminal law and it would have been too damned obvious.
The whole thing stinks of vindictiveness, and I don’t necessarily mean that of the man who threw a nursing mother into the street.
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Dear Daphne,
I am sure the truth comes out, and also I wish we all pay for our mistakes!
Thank you
PND can be a very traumatic episode in a new mum’s life. Instead of being happy that you have a baby to cherish and care, you are depressed as you think you are not doing enough.
You feel helpless and unworthy. Plus the fact that you are always tired, you are not sleeping enough and your hormones are wreaking havoc with your body.
I’ve been through it and I don’t wish it on anybody else. Poor woman and her baby!
And all this because Dr Said was quoted as having said ‘evening’ instead of ‘afternoon’ during the court proceedings!
What should happen when a Gozitan vouches that the incinerator is still there, after it was dismantled, as Justyne Caruana did in the 2008 general election campaign?
To be technically correct, she only said ‘mur xommu’ (go and smell it) and that she only implied that the incinerator was not decommissioned and dismantled.
What can we expect from an avukata haxixa Ghawdxija?
In Maltese we say “ix-xitan jaghtik id-disgha u disghin imma jhalli wiehed ghalih”: Justyne did not express any solidarity with Dr Said in her belated statement.
That alone proves the presence of a grudge against him, and that she was forced to issue her statement.
It will be a bit hard for someone to persuade me against my moral conviction that anyone who is not afraid to ride on the back of the woes of a broken family and specifically the custody of a defenceless newborn, would not find it hard to use Roberto Montalto as a “paraventu” in court.
[Daphne – My thoughts exactly.]
I can’t quite understand this comment, in the sense that I don’t know the meaning of “paraventu”. What’s that implying, if I may ask, please.
[Daphne – A shield or cover.]
Luca, I apologise for using the word ‘paraventu’, but I chose it specifically because it was one of former prime minister Alfred Sant’s favourite words.
The term was made famous by former Labour leader Alfred Sant when he used it to refer to the commissioner of police in a televised interview.
Justyne. The latest PL politician who has gained for herself the OID suffix in my vocabulary, which is essentially a scientific one.
I refer to people of her ilk as politicoid. Once a politicoid always a politicoid.
This is my very own personal inference from this debacle.
One may recall that Justyne Caruana was parading her post-natal depression on TV even half-way through her pregnancy.
What if Justyne’s husband had kicked her out, claiming that she suffered from postnatal depression, and denied her access to her newborn baby?
Would she have been happy to assist him in his legal quest?
In Justyne’s place, having endured that same medical condition as her client’s nemesis, I would have refused to render service to this individual. In other countries it is called “obiettore di coscienza”, and it’s perfectly legal.
Alas, it’s evident that not everyone is like yours truly. Some people do it only for the money, or because they stand to gain. She probably noticed Chris Said on the opposing end and the only thing she saw at that point was coloured red.
Daphne, name ‘s Martin not Anthony.
[Daphne – No, it’s not. Haven’t you read the court decree I uploaded a couple of days ago? Anthony Xuereb Vs Il-Kummissarju tal-Pulizija. You’ve been reading Malta Today online. They had him down as Martin Xuereb, and it struck me because Martin Xuereb is a well-known architect.]
Nothing to exculpate her from.
Now you, on the other hand…
[Daphne – Yes? Go on. How strange that you should feel the need to defend Justyne Caruana, somebody you don’t know from Adam, purely on the grounds that she’s a Labour MP. Is this how you seek to convince me that you think clearly?]
This latest episode is a further proof of how hard (I dare say impossible) it’s turning out to be for the prophets of ‘Stagun Politiku Gdid’ to distance themselves from the stupid and dirty tricks they resorted to in their shameful past.
They haven’t yet learned that these types of gimmicks actually boost their opponents no end, as the truth always prevails.
The ‘paraventu’ is a portable sectioned screen. Usually placed in the corner of a room, its primary purpose was to conceal a commode. It also served as a draught excluder at the time when people washed in tin baths placed in bedrooms, and also as a dressing screen up to more recent times. Steel-framed versions are still to be found in hospital wards.
The paraventu was a standard part of bedroom furniture in Malta up to the 1930s.
Typical ‘Harablu’ style. Min irid jifhem