Comments on: Silvio Meli does it again (and no doubt, again and again and again)

By: Chris Ripard

Chris Ripard — Mon, 19 Nov 2012 12:23:31 +0000

In reply to TROY. Top stuff!! Did you see the film (not the naff one with Stallone)? Boy do we need him in Malta!

By: david calleja

david calleja — Sun, 18 Nov 2012 17:22:33 +0000

Daphne, mhux ta b’xejn il-PL jobghoduk ghax veru taf xi tghid.

Hemm bzonn isir xi haga biex din is-sentenza tinbidel ghax veru tal-misthija. Bl-istess argument jien li qatt ma hdimt ix-xatt nista inressaq kaz ghax gejt diskriminat ghax ma thallejtx nahdem ix-xatt, avolja missieri qatt ma applika jew hadem ix-xatt. Only in Malta.

By: David

David — Sat, 17 Nov 2012 14:39:05 +0000

Who are the Honourable Ministers of Justice who are guilty of culpa in eligendo by appointing Dr Meli as magistrate and judge?

By: TROY

TROY — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 20:03:28 +0000

JUDGE DREDD (what a comic)

By: Erasmus

Erasmus — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 18:37:37 +0000

I stand to be corrected, but there was at least one court judgement, dating back several years, which established that the prohibition of daughters of stevedores from inheriting their father’s job amounted to discrimination. So Judge Meli may have acted on the basis of case-law.

By: ciccio

ciccio — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 16:58:24 +0000

Do we know which lawyer appeared for Mrs. Cassar?

[Daphne – Frank Cassar.]

By: ciccio

ciccio — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 16:47:49 +0000

I am not the son of a stevedore.

I am going to sue the Ports authorities because those Port Workers Regulations discriminated against me from obtaining that licence from the late Carmelo Abela in 1992.

I am hoping that Justice Meli will preside over my case.

By: jack of all trades

jack of all trades — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 16:46:33 +0000

I wonder why you opted for archaeology instead of law at University cause it seems that you know very well how to interpret the law.

[Daphne – The basis of law is logic. So is the basis of archaeology, but the latter is much more interesting.]

By: Angus Black

Angus Black — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 16:43:13 +0000

A judge who treats taxpayers’ money like beans.

A magistrate who lends his taxpayer-paid limo and chauffeur to his wife to have her toy deliveries fulfilled.

Another who holds office in a sports organization contrary to rules.

A magistrate who lies under oath.

A judge who took his salary for seven years and never showed up for work.

A chief justice jailed for taking a bribe from a drug dealer and held in a mental institution instead of the prisons.

A judge jailed for the same crime.

By: gb

gb — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 16:31:34 +0000

“The difference between the two salaries in the period between 1993 and 2010 amounted to €288,868. ”

This works out at almost €17,000 per year difference in salary between a BOV employee and a port worker. Are BOV workers paid peanuts ? Surely not, otherwise the Unions would be all over BOV.