Gaming Law in Malta: A Brief Overview

  • Emma Grech
  • 22/12/2014
  • 4 min read

Emma Grech, ‘Gaming Law in Malta: A Brief Overview’ (Online Law Journal, 22 December 2014). Malta is currently and positively being perceived as the veteran within the EU for having been the first to regulate remote gaming way back in 2004.1 In a preliminary ruling, the European Court of Justice had memorably referred to the […]

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Ariane Aquilina, ‘Setting up a Common Legal Framework to Regulate the Gaming Sector in the European Union’ (Online Law Journal, 22 December 2014). Online gaming is considered to be ‘the fastest growing service activity’1 and has an estimated annual growth rate of 15%.2 One of the issues faced by leaders and officials within the EU […]

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An Overview of the Kadi CJEU Case Law

  • Ariane Aquilina
  • 22/12/2014
  • 9 min read

Ariane Aquilina, ‘An Overview of the Kadi CJEU Case Law’ (Online Law Journal, 22 December 2014). On 15 October 1999 the UN Security Council adopted Resolution 1267 aimed at condemning terrorism and demanding that the Taliban turn over Osama bin Laden. Paragraph 4(b) of this Resolution declares that states must: Freeze funds and other financial […]

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Vanessa Gatt, ‘Asylum Seekers and the European Courts: Upholding Human Rights vs State Politics’ (Online Law Journal, 22 December 2014). Amid stories of under-investigated crimes committed against asylum seekers, and amid reports of refugee segregation within certain Swiss towns imposing restrictions to the immigrants’ free movement,1 the European Courts have been adamant in their quest […]

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Basic Principles on Trust in Maltese Law

  • Anton Micallef
  • 22/12/2014
  • 26 min read

Anton Micallef, ‘Basic Principles on Trust in Maltese Law’ (Online Law Journal, 22 December 2014). This article is intended to set out the key principles regulating and establishment of a trust governed by Maltese Law (Malta Trust). This piece was neither conceived nor has it been written with the view to be a treatise on […]

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Capital Punishment: Is it a Deterrent?

  • Jeremy Buttigieg
  • 22/12/2014
  • 7 min read

Jeremy Buttigieg, ‘Capital Punishment: Is it a Deterrent?’ (Online Law Journal, 22 December 2014). A HISTORICAL OVERVIEW OF CAPITAL PUNISHMENT IN MALTA The final execution at the Corradino Prison took place on 5 July 1943, wherein Karmnu Zammit and his brother Guzeppi were hanged as they were found guilty of murdering Spiru Grech of Zabbar. […]

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Child Piracy in East Africa

  • Ariane Aquilina
  • 22/12/2014
  • 9 min read

Ariane Aquilina, ‘Child Piracy in East Africa’ (Online Law Journal, 22 December 2014). Modern day piracy is a crime that may be prosecuted under universal jurisdiction. The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea defines piracy as consisting of:(a) any illegal acts of violence or detention, or any act of depredation, committed for […]

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Anti-Money Laundering: Know Your Customer

  • Sarah Grima
  • 22/12/2014
  • 5 min read

Sarah Grima, ‘Anti-Money Laundering: Know Your Customer’ (Online Law Journal, 22 December 2014). Money laundering is a reality. It has become today one of the chief concerns of all governments – and so it should be! It is NOT merely financial institutions and large organisations which may fall victim to such offence, but any individual […]

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The Presumption of Innocence: A second look

  • Giuseppe Mifsud Bonnici
  • 22/12/2014
  • 19 min read

Giuseppe Mifsud Bonnici, ‘The Presumption of Innocence: A second look’ (Online Law Journal, 22 December 2014). In 1997, I had a first look at the jurisprudence1 of the European Court of Human Rights and I published a monograph entitled The Presumption of Innocence on the matter in the Mediterranean Journal of Human Rights.2 On examining […]

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Actio Surrogatoria: Anthony Micallef vs Paul Balzan

  • Michelle Camilleri
  • 22/12/2014
  • 3 min read

Michelle Camilleri, ‘Actio Surrogatoria: Anthony Micallef vs Paul Balzan’ (Online Law Journal, 22 December 2014). The facts are as follows: By means of a promise of sale (konvenju) dated 10 May 1993, Paul Balzan and Richard Camilleri promised Anthony and Raymond Farrugia a portion of land in Zebbug, divided into plot 1 and 2. On […]

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