Tarax ser inhallat lillek ma’ Daphne?

Kompli sejra hekk, Daphne, ghax qed tikxfilhom il-borom kollha.

A lot of people think that the ECHR/ECtHR/Council of Europe and the EU are the same thing.

Clearly, the lady is one of them.

Lara Boffa

Nov 22nd 2011, 23:26

It is interesting to note that the article written by the ‘veteran jounalist’ and published by ToM was done so prior to Malta being part of the EU, and thus Article 10 of the EU Convention was not pertinent to this case. If I’m not mistaken, I believe that local legislation had been passed after. I encourage Mr Mizzi to be more careful when he publicly gets his thoughts down on paper.

I think she needed to get the facts right! Exactly as to the reply by Mr Raymond Sammut

Nov 23rd 2011, 11:46

@ Lara Boffa

How do you mean “Article 10 of the EU Convention”? What are you talking about? There is no EU involvement in this case.

The report above refers to “a violation of Article 10”; that is, the decision of the Maltese Civil Courts violated Mr Mizzi’s right to freedom of expression as stipulated in The European Convention on Human Rights.

Malta ratified the European Convention on Human Rights in 1967.

Mr Mizzi lodged the application with the European Court of Human Rights on 4 March 2010. All persons, groups of persons, and companies from States Parties to the Convention are eligible to lodge applications in accordance with legal advice.

All the relevant information is available in PDFs published online by the ECHR, Council of Europe. For example, one can google “Mizzi ECHR”.

To me it seems that it is you, Lara Boffa, who needs to be “more careful when publicly getting one’s thoughts down on paper.” Please check your facts before setting the tone of your comment.

Very interesting indeed, she could have easily checked her facts alright.

Sorry, other way round: she thinks you claim Boffa is her great-grandfather when in fact he is her grandfather.

I say she should get HER facts straight and read your comment properly. You spoke about the age/generation gap and not about the actual familial relation between her and Paul Boffa.

How embarrassing (for her).

http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20111122/local/veteran-journalist-wins-european-court-case-after-libel-conviction-in-the-maltese-courts.395031