Comments on: Please do ring the President of the Law Commission to congratulate him: 9988 8877 https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/08/please-do-ring-the-president-of-the-law-commission-to-congratulate-him-9988-8877/ Daphne Caruana Galizia is a journalist working in Malta. Mon, 04 Aug 2014 20:58:24 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Arturo Mercieca https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/08/please-do-ring-the-president-of-the-law-commission-to-congratulate-him-9988-8877/#comment-2321628 Mon, 04 Aug 2014 20:58:24 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=50936#comment-2321628 I suppose that this is the ultimate confirmation that this is not a meritocratic government. Can anyone seriously put Franco Debono on the same footing as retired judge Philip Sciberras, whose knowledge of Maltese and foreign jurisprudence and case-law, especially in the civil law field (but not only) is unparalleled?

Franco Debono’s practice is limited to criminal law and constitutional law and I doubt whether he does any civil law practice. One would have expected someone of the calibre of Judge Sciberras to chair this commission rather than have it chaired by someone with a limited legal perspective.

It is evident that the composition of this commission has been dictated by political considerations (note that Judge Vanni Bonello is the only one of the Law Reform Commission to have been left out).

[Daphne – He was not left out. He refused to join in. An important, and not fine, distinction.]

I am also not too impressed with the academics who have been nominated on it as their output is usually more compilatory than analytical and they lack any practice whatsoever.

I think that if it wanted results, the government should have tried to rope in legal practitioners who may not vie for the limelight all the time and who do not rush to write fawning articles on the papers when asked to do so but who are nonetheless solid jurists to boot.

]]> By: KD https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/08/please-do-ring-the-president-of-the-law-commission-to-congratulate-him-9988-8877/#comment-2321399 Mon, 04 Aug 2014 19:54:01 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=50936#comment-2321399 He’s at Sciacca practically every day.

[Daphne – Bringing the tone down.]

]]> By: il-Ginger https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/08/please-do-ring-the-president-of-the-law-commission-to-congratulate-him-9988-8877/#comment-2321180 Mon, 04 Aug 2014 18:50:33 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=50936#comment-2321180 He’s so relevant right now, said no one ever

]]> By: M https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/08/please-do-ring-the-president-of-the-law-commission-to-congratulate-him-9988-8877/#comment-2321138 Mon, 04 Aug 2014 18:36:33 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=50936#comment-2321138 In the comments someone suggested that he should be given an honourary doctorate by the university. I wonder who that person sees when she looks in the mirror, Franco Debono perhaps?

http://www.independent.com.mt/articles/2014-08-04/news/my-political-career-is-not-over-franco-debono-6086492161/

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