All the abuses I mentioned above should not happen yet they do every day.

So to MINIMISE abuse we should have ALL MPs fully paid to do an MP job only.They have to renounce their job while they are serving as MPs.

The clients/customers of lawyers are CRIMINALS. The clients/customers/patients of accountants, dentists, doctors etc are not criminal and there is less conflict of interest.

One cannot compare lawyers with other professionals in this case.

@ John Schembri.

None of the cases mentioned by you involve a conflict of interest – they are cases of abuses that should not happen.

The case of lawyer/lawgivers is different. When wearing the lawgiver hat they pass laws to prevent crime and to punish wrongdoers. When they wear the hat of a criminal defence lawyer they help lawbreakers to escape the rigours of the law drafted earlier by them.
. Do I need to spoon feed you to understand a simple comment?

Dr Saliba,the conflict of interest is wider than you think.

One can go to an architect MP to get an undeserved permit, to a doctor MP for an invalidity certificate, to an accountant MP to have his business accounts cooked with the hope that he’s an untouchable.

One can go to a dentist and he will give him a ‘discount’ for a root canal treatment with the promise that he’ll take care of him in the coming election.

Dr Pawlu Boffa was genuinely the ‘tabib tax-xelin’, but we have to say that this helped him immensely to garner a lot of votes.

@ H. P. Baxxter

Why do you want Anthony Charles to die of an abscess?

Dear Doctor, I understand any comment by Mr. Baxxter and I always like them but you tend to take offence when some village dentist rebuts your animosity towards the profession. Fine della dicussione.

As a dentist I agree with Mr Baxxter. One must read the whole comment to understand that no insult to dentists in general was made.

Another one who can’t read?

I said the exact opposite, and was lamenting another shard of Maltese idiocy, viz. Alex ‘Open Heart’ Felice is god on earth but your dentist is just someone in white overalls. Someone needs to tell our cretinous population that you can die of an abscess. Perhaps Anthony Charles himself could do it.

You do not even understand my comment because, if you read it carefully, it is not at all a “blighted view” of dentists at all.

Neither doctors nor dentists have a conflict of interest in the exercise of their profession and sitting in parliament to pass laws.

The conflict arises with criminal defence lawyers who have a pecuniary interest that the enacted laws would contain loopholes that enable their clients to avoid being found guilty of crimes they had really committed.