Comments on: Go on, newspapers! Send a reporter to ask Godfrey Grima what he thinks about Dom Mintoff.

By: pocoyo

pocoyo — Mon, 27 Aug 2012 20:26:50 +0000

jidhirli li il-kaz ta Godfrey Grima kien ispira lil Oliver Friggieri jikteb Fil-Parlament Ma jikbrux Fjuri

By: H.P. Baxxter

H.P. Baxxter — Mon, 27 Aug 2012 00:29:50 +0000

So, did he meet Mintoff at the Garrick Club?

By: ciccio

ciccio — Mon, 27 Aug 2012 00:19:20 +0000

The case of breach of privilege against Grima is mentioned here as well.

http://www.independent.com.mt/news.asp?newsitemid=144654

I love it how Judge Giovanni Bonello describes the procedure of breach of privilege:

“Breach of privilege exists only in the UK, Ireland, Cyprus and Malta. It is a very strange procedure by which Parliament converts itself into a criminal court of law, acting as victim, prosecutor, judge and jury at the same time and if found guilty the defendant can be sentenced for up to two months in jail.”

By: ciccio

ciccio — Mon, 27 Aug 2012 00:14:27 +0000

“…in the eighties, Grima was once ‘hauled in front of Parliament charged with breach of privilege’ after writing a piece for the Financial Times criticising a law that forced the Maltese to repatriate their investments from abroad…”

http://www.dailymalta.com/wt/2005/08/dom-mintoff.shtml