It is about time a name-and-shame system was started for members of the judiciary.

If they are full time parliamentarians and paid accordingly all MPs should be made to stop working under any profession. Once they are not re-elected I agree that they be given a six month ‘dole’ and re-start practicing their profession.

Thank you for correcting my mistake. That was some 30 years ago I guess, and I recall lawyer/MP Joe Brincat suing the government on something after the law was removed.

You are assigning good faith to Mintoff where there was none – and you are factually incorrect.

Mintoff’s law did not prohibit lawyer MPs from defending their clients in court. It prevented them from representing people who had sued his government, a rather different proposition, don’t you think?

Franco won’t make a circle square without other people’s intentional help or through their crass incompetency.

Franco has proven once again that our justice system needs a much needed radical reform.

MPs should be paid parliamentarians and cease from working in their profession, whether they are cesspit plumbers, economists, lawyers, accountants, nursing-aides, doctors, architects or what-have-you.

Mintoff once tackled the problem by making a law which prohibited lawyer/MPs from defending their clients in court. But he tackled it in his usual bulldozer/miserly fashion.

ALL MPs should be paid a pre-agreed decent honoraria and obliged to stop practising their profession once they are elected. If they are not re-elected they should be given a six month ‘dole’, and can re-start practising their respective professions.

[Daphne – He’s a member of parliament, Mario. Would his constituents have wished him to work to release this person into society, in conditions which indicate that he might try to escape justice again? He cannot serve the interests of his constituents and also of his clients. This applies not only to him – there are other MPs in the same fix, which they ignore or pretend doesn’t matter.]