In three years: 14 new judges and magistrates, 10 of them linked directly to the Labour Party » grazio-mercieca

Magistrate Grazio Mercieca (1st on right): 1980s Labour Party election candidate, now chief of staff to Gozo Minister Anton Refalo (1st on left). Also in picture (centre): the Chief Justice, Silvio Camilleri, who sits on the committee that is supposed to have vetted Mercieca’s nomination for the bench