All members of parliament have learnt this very well, along the years.

I think they are the ones playing the intelligent game and not the electorate. When are we going to learn ?

The Minister had tried to reduce the workloads of the civil court by moving disputes on minor traffic collisions and other similar disputes to the arbitration centre. This also provided a cheaper and faster method of resolving these disputes (most of which are petty anyway).

Jose Herrera made it a personal campaign of his to declare these types of mandatory arbitrations as unconstitutional and he managed.

Even worse, a few days ago was reported in Maltstar (http://www.maltastar.com/dart/20120526-court-arbitration-centre-denies-right-to-fair-hearing) as saying that decisions taken in arbitration can be contested in the civil court. Can you image what that would do to the court workload! What a hypocrite!

Totally agree. Can we know or is this against the data protection act! Then the PL could do us the favour of splashing it out on their newspapers as they do when they mention the various salaries of people who are not to their liking. To them this is not squandering public funds.

It would be useful to cost how much Judge Depasquale was paid for all the time he stayed away from work.

I remember clearly criticism from Silvio Camilleri in his opening speech upon accepting the role of Chief Justice, even though he did not explicitly refer to Magistrate Scerri-Herrera and her behaviour.

While the PN did not move any motion to have her removed – and what she was doing was definitely tantamount to abuse of power in my opinion – there is no chance in hell that Labour would have supported the notion, despite the obvious shortcomings in her character.

Indeed, I suspect that no motions in this regard were moved because of the fact that despite it being proven that her actions were not worthy of being in the judiciary, the PN knew that they wouldn’t be able to get the required majority of votes (two-thirds of Parliament is needed, if my memory serves me correctly) to impeach her.

Apart from the obvious reason of Jose Herrera, Labour will always show support to someone who does not behave in the manner that society expects them to. That’s how pitiful they are, unfortunately.

Do these fools realize what they are heading into? I can hardly wait for them to win the next election. Big deal. They might win an election, but always remember their moral mandate to govern comes from the gutter, unlike the PN which, with all its problems, remains a humane party that really believes in individual liberty.