Most people stay silent. No risk, no pain. The Catholic Church and Big Brother (Government) are both powers supposed to be taking care of us, we think. But who are they really taking care of? From a fan from the Snowy White Canada.

‘founded’ is a transitive verb and it is perfectly correct to use it in this context.

The police had nothing to prove, you gibbering idiot. The offence of perjury is instantaneous and the facts of the statement under oath are laid bare to the court which has taken cognisance of the case.

There is no ‘strong case’ to make, you fool. The person either lied and lied knowingly or he didn’t AND in so doing perverted the course of justice. If any of these elements is missing then the offence simply does not subsist.

It is spergur in Maltese.

Not as much as Facebook does, mind you!

The use of the adjective ” founded” is good. It is the adjectival form of “found” which means based on sound evidence, in this case.

If you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.

Has it occurred to you that, since the police had already declined to prosecute, they had a vested interest in “being proved right” and might not have put up as strong a case as they might have done against Said?

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? (I hope I got that right).

[Daphne – Excuse me, but did you read the reports of the case? Did you actually understand them? Oh, I forget – you vote Labour. By definition, you can’t read things and understand them. There is nothing that remotely constitutes perjury in mistakenly saying in court that a sitting took place in the evening instead of the afternoon, or the other way round. Perjury is lying with malicious intent to pervert the course of justice. This mistake had no effect on the course of justice – therefore, even if by a great stretch of the imagination it was a deliberate lie, it still could not be said to constitute perjury. An example of perjury is Magistrate Consuelo Scerri Herrera saying in court that Michael Cassar sent her drinks in a restaurant, though she will now no doubt try to say that she made a mistake because her memory is befuddled – even though she had perfect recall about which A-levels I took 30 years ago at St Aloysius College, something I barely remember myself.]

sperġur. And if you write it properly (with a “ġ”), there would be no need to specify what kind of “G” it is.