Comments on: Court orders Malta government envoy to the World Tourism Organisation to pay Eur5,000 in libel damages https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/03/court-orders-maltas-envoy-to-the-world-tourism-organisation-to-pay-eur5000-in-libel-damages/ Daphne Caruana Galizia is a journalist working in Malta. Mon, 17 Mar 2014 22:53:11 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Harry Purdie https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/03/court-orders-maltas-envoy-to-the-world-tourism-organisation-to-pay-eur5000-in-libel-damages/#comment-1640504 Mon, 17 Mar 2014 22:53:11 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=44820#comment-1640504 In reply to Big Daddy.

He should have been banished to the ‘Fat Farm’ also. Water, veggies and fruit, nothing else.

]]> By: Big Daddy https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/03/court-orders-maltas-envoy-to-the-world-tourism-organisation-to-pay-eur5000-in-libel-damages/#comment-1639838 Mon, 17 Mar 2014 18:57:42 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=44820#comment-1639838 In reply to Big Daddy.

Doesn’t understand the difference, pretends he doesn’t, or pretends there’s no difference. After all he knows that most people won’t be fagged to go check the details for themselves. In the art of playing the victim anything goes.

]]> By: curious https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/03/court-orders-maltas-envoy-to-the-world-tourism-organisation-to-pay-eur5000-in-libel-damages/#comment-1639517 Mon, 17 Mar 2014 16:59:52 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=44820#comment-1639517 “Former Prime Minister Alfred Sant was ordered to pay €10,000 in damages to former Nationalist minister Ninu Zammit, after court decided that a 2007 speech he made was defamatory” (MaltaToday)

]]> By: Big Daddy https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/03/court-orders-maltas-envoy-to-the-world-tourism-organisation-to-pay-eur5000-in-libel-damages/#comment-1639277 Mon, 17 Mar 2014 15:29:04 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=44820#comment-1639277 The irony of complaining about “two weights, two measures” is apparently lost on the man.

http://www.independent.com.mt/articles/2014-03-17/news/richard-cachia-caruana-wins-libel-case-against-joe-grima-4292247552/

[Daphne – I can’t understand what his argument is. This was a civil suit not a police prosecution. He clearly doesn’t understand the difference.]

]]> By: Alexander Ball https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/03/court-orders-maltas-envoy-to-the-world-tourism-organisation-to-pay-eur5000-in-libel-damages/#comment-1639239 Mon, 17 Mar 2014 15:16:42 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=44820#comment-1639239 This photo reminds me of when I saw the elephants being hosed down at Chester Zoo.

]]> By: George Grech https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/03/court-orders-maltas-envoy-to-the-world-tourism-organisation-to-pay-eur5000-in-libel-damages/#comment-1639071 Mon, 17 Mar 2014 14:26:30 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=44820#comment-1639071 Qatt mort f’xi fergha ta’ HSBC u qdewk kaxxiera bl-uniformi ta’ BOV ? Qatt mort f’xi fergha ta’ GO u ssib il-haddiema bil-polo shirts ta’ MELITA? Zgur li le. Pero haga ta’ l-iskantament tmur tirkeb fuq it-trasport pubbliku u ssib haddiema bl-uniformi ta’ ARRIVA.

U ma’ nahsibx li din hija haga temporanja u bla mahsuba imma hi l-istrategija tal-gvern li drajnih jitfa il-htija tan- nuqqasijiet tieghu fuq haddiehor. B’hekk il-pubbliku jassocja in-nuqqasijiet tal-ministru tat-trasport fuq l-ARRIVA u mhux fuq l-inkompetenza tieghu.

]]> By: admin https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/03/court-orders-maltas-envoy-to-the-world-tourism-organisation-to-pay-eur5000-in-libel-damages/#comment-1639015 Mon, 17 Mar 2014 14:08:27 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=44820#comment-1639015 http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20140317/local/joe-grima-ordered-to-pay-5000-libel-damages-to-cachia-caruana.510995

]]> By: Francis Saliba M.D. https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/03/court-orders-maltas-envoy-to-the-world-tourism-organisation-to-pay-eur5000-in-libel-damages/#comment-1638841 Mon, 17 Mar 2014 13:02:16 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=44820#comment-1638841 It would be a salutary lesson and an inducement not to libel capriciously but only if these judgments are delivered within a reasonable time not when the defaming writing is allowed to continue to cause damage for many years on end.

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