I believe that lawyers and notaries lose their warrant only if sentenced to jail for more then one year, suspended sentence or not.

Clear or not, that’s all besides the point. Do you or do you not see that an untrustworthy magistrate weakens the whole of the justice system?

Answers on a pinhead, please.

Alistor Farrugia, if the laws of Malta were the sole criterion on which fitness for office were to be judged, then there would be need for a code of ethics which, incidentally, the ‘lady’ in questions has violated repeatedly.

Moral authority in a magistrate is far more important than a detailed knowledge of the law. Were that not the case, a few well programmed computers would render the judiciary redundant.

Bribery.
What law did she break? Adultery?

[Daphne – How literal you are. They were not forced to resign because they broke the law, but because, by breaking the law, they no longer have moral authority.]

We’re not commenting on the judgement and the sentence. We’re commenting on her moralistic remark about “the toddler suffering the most”. That had nothing to do with judgement by the standards of the law. It was a personal admonition.

Pass judgement…Even bigger “My a@@e”.

In my industry we have a rule of “fit for purpose” – I rest my case, m’lud.

I am curious as to how she made it to magistrate in the first place.

[Daphne – One of the few things the Labour Party did during its 22-month stint in government.]

I don’t know if I am making myself clear.