[Daphne – No, I’m just saying that the previous minister for justice might not have thought it so important to make a point of removing Judge Depasquale’s taxi, once he wasn’t using it to go in to work.]
No wonder cases are left sine die like for example the front page of today of today’s The Times, giving prominance to a court case refering to Lorry Sant, when both plaintiff and defendant are long dead.

So Judge Depasquale must have left TONS of cases awaitng judgement.

[Daphne – He took his salary for many years until his retirement, without once going in to work, on the grounds that he had a ‘moral objection’ to some new system introduced at the law courts. For the first few years of his ‘moral objection’, he even kept his official taxi and other perks, but then when Austin Gatt became minister for justice, he removed them on the grounds that the perks were there to help him work, and were not part of his salary as such.]

So there were two?

[Daphne – Yes, Magistrate Peralta and Judge Depasquale.]

There were many complaints to the authorities from residents who lived there for decades before but thier protests were ignored by both Labour and Nationalists administrations.

Then came Patrick Vella … and God created tarmac.

The street leading to his place and the immediate surroundings were levelled and tarmaced in a couple of days. Only those streets though. Later came the Demarcos, and suddenly God created street lighting surrounding their place – only their place though.