Silvio, the law says that one cannot be in possession of unlicensed weapons or a quantity of drugs. Should police be charged for illegal possession when they seize drugs or weapons after a search? Logic, dear Silvio, logic.

You are now under arrest for uploading a sketch which goes against the ending-a-sketch-with-a-silly-ending act.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdoGVgj1MtY

Silvio if you happen to find a murdered body, don’t alert anyone and just bury it. If the police get to know that you have a dead body on your hands, you might be arrested.

Do try and use your brain once in a while.

Unless Magistrate Bugeja shows otherwise he is known not to be a Labour supporter.

Technically and anally, the photographer should be charged too, for not reporting a crime. And the editor of the Times website too, for not reporting the photographer for not reporting a crime.

”He recounted his challenge in the Constitutional Court alongside Prof. de Marco just after the 1976 election, when the whole population of the government’s St Vincent de Paul old people’s home – a thousand eligible voters – mysteriously voted Labour.

The judges in the Constitutional Court were replaced within a few hours, during the actual hearing of the case.

“Since the new judges included the father and the brother of the government’s defence lawyers, we decided there was no point in hoping for a fair hearing and dropped the case,” he said.”

http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20140725/local/Guido-was-never-on-time-as-he-loved-life-.529114

Interesting. I wasn’t aware you could petition the courts to order an investigation, Thanks for the pointer.

The Attorney General could also appeal the decision and have it reversed. Something tells me that won’t happen.

Under the previous administration, MEPA, OPM and ALE agreed to allow the handling of dead and injured protected species by BirdLife personnel and extremely strict procedures were established for this purpose.

These involved calling MEPA & OPM each time a bird is found, calling ALE, developing and maintaining appropriate records, obtaining, maintaining vet certificates and x-rays of dead birds and the distribution of such reports to the authorities, and the delivery of the birds to its agreed (by BLM, MEPA, OPM) final destination normally either the natural history museum (when dead) or to a rehabilition place when survival is possible …. etc.

BirdLife always strived to follow these procedures meticulously.

The reason for establishing these procedures was not because BirdLife wanted to handle these birds but because the MEPA, OPM and ALE resources were insufficient to cater for the extent of dead and injured protected species found during the peak migration seasons.

Let’s be clear, irregular handling of protected bird species is against the law, but exceptions to the law are made for good causes. An example is in the case of scientific research, and trained BirdLife researchers have licenses to permit bird ringing research activities – so exceptions to this law are standard common practice when its for the general good of the birds concerned.