If only more lawyers had the decency to speak out about this, or to just go ahead and boycott Judge Wenzu

Published: July 24, 2014 at 4:51pm

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  1. admin says:
    July 24, 2014 at 4:52 pm

    http://www.independent.com.mt/articles/2014-07-23/news/experienced-lawyer-calls-for-boycott-of-wenzu-mintoffs-first-sitting-as-judge-5939789825/

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    • A+ says:
      July 24, 2014 at 7:55 pm

      First take over the media, infiltrate all government departments, the Central Bank and Bank of Valletta, state authorities and agencies, and run the country while Lawrence Gonzi runs the government, fund an election campaign and the Labour Party for the years to come through backroom deals, win the election, take over the army and the police, take complete control of the banking system (CBM, MFSA, and especially Bank of Valletta), and place your stooges as judges and magistrates so as to take over the law courts. Game, set and match.

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  2. Mandy says:
    July 24, 2014 at 4:59 pm

    Paul Borg Olivier has already stated openly that he will be boycotting it.

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  3. ken il malti says:
    July 24, 2014 at 5:07 pm

    Does Wenzu Mintoff drive a Mini?

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  4. Sophia. says:
    July 24, 2014 at 5:12 pm

    Zgur ha jispicca jaghmel il-gurijiet minflok l-Imhallef Quintano lol tarax

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  5. Gahan says:
    July 24, 2014 at 5:14 pm

    ‘Nice guy’ charged with seriously injuring girlfriend.

    http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20140724/local/nice-guy-charged-with-seriously-injuring-girlfriend.529085

    Lawyer Franco Debono, who represented the victim, said the accused had terrorised the woman’s family who now lived in fear of him.
    He said he beat up his girlfriend when he got drunk and a number of police reports had been filed.

    I know of another nice guy with a drink problem who in front of Is-Serkin Bar in Rabat beat up a decent young man, while Franco Debono was with him in the early hours of the morning after drinking at Gianpula.

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  6. Silvio says:
    July 24, 2014 at 7:54 pm

    How about placing some bets.

    I say that not more than a handfull lawyers will be missing.

    [Daphne – You can’t have a handful of lawyers, Mr Loporto. They are way too large. Would you say ‘ponn avukati’?]

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    • Chris says:
      July 24, 2014 at 10:32 pm

      Not sure if you are talking about the girth of lawyers or nitpicking about the language.

      Size doesn’t really enter the picture in the expression ‘a handful of… ‘

      Two examples from the BBC speak of a handful of people http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p022m7bf
      and a handful of countries
      http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b049kmk2/hardtalk-lord-falconer-former-uk-secretary-of-state-for-justice
      The expression is even more prevalent in American newspapers

      [Daphne – I’m afraid it’s laughably used there too. ‘A handful’ is not interchangeable with ‘a few’. It’s ‘a handful of corn’ but ‘a few countries’ and ‘a few lawyers’. A handful is exactly what it says it is, in the same way as ‘a mouthful’. How can you have a handful of countries? Mistakes are incorporated into the language through ignorance. It doesn’t follow that you have to join in. ‘To practice’ is cropping up rather a lot on the BBC site nowadays – it doesn’t make it right. A handful of lawyers, indeed…]

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  7. Andrew Borg-Cardona says:
    July 24, 2014 at 8:02 pm

    Not to blow my own horn, but in my blog (admittedly on the “other” paper’s portal) I think I was adequately clear.

    [Daphne – I decided against posting about that, in case the Taghna Lkollers think it’s cronyism.]

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  8. admin says:
    July 25, 2014 at 1:14 am

    https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10204078486184271&set=vb.1288196188&type=2&theater

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  9. bun-seeker says:
    July 25, 2014 at 8:23 am

    I cannot understand all this fuss about Wenzu Mintoff. Does the Maltese electorate deserve any better?

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  10. c says:
    July 25, 2014 at 10:48 pm

    May I suggest that you publish some of Wenzu Mintoff’s past articles and editorials to show the level of impartiality this Labour activist has?

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