The Hospitals Saga: Some Questions – A Few Answers

  • Anthony Borg Barthet
  • 17/05/2025
  • 20 min read

In this article, Judge Anthony Borg Barthet explores some issues raised in the case instituted by the Hon. Dr. Adrian Delia regarding the concessions of the state hospitals to private investors and the case instituted by Dr. Bernard Grech against the State Advocate in connection with the same. These judgments raise issues of constitutional and […]

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In this article Judge Anthony Borg Barthet, publishes the full text of the opinion given by him to the State Advocate in the question of whether the State Advocate can institute or withdraw judicial action on behalf of the state without being tasked to do so by the organ of the executive to which responsibility […]

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The FIAU Judgments; A Critical Legal Analysis

  • Tonio Borg
  • 10/05/2025
  • 31 min read

In this article Prof. Tonio Borg examines the Constitutional Court’s judgments of 18 November 2024 in the XNT and Phoenix cases, which reversed earlier rulings declaring FIAU’s fining powers unconstitutional and introduced a controversial shift in jurisprudence by validating administrative sanctions imposed by non-judicial bodies, so long as an appeal to a court exists. This […]

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