Donatella Frendo Dimech set to be appointed Magistrate

Deputy attorney general Donatella Frendo Dimech will be sworn in as Magistrate next week. Her appointment was inadvertently revealed by the Office of the President, after listing her name in the President's list of engagements for next week.

Eleven judicial appointments took place under the present administration, six of which saw women appointed judges or magistrates.

Frendo Dimech, deputy AG since 2012, will be replacing magistrate emeritus Carol Peralta although it will be up to the Chief Justice to decide which cases Frendo Dimech will be following.

MaltaToday is informed that the Attorney General will soon issue a call to appoint a new deputy AG.

Frendo Dimech graduated as Doctor of Laws 1993 after attending St Dorothy’s School.

She joined the AG’s Office in 1997 where she served as prosecutor with primary responsibility for international cooperation in criminal matters including extraditions and investigations into money laundering and cross-border crime. She was appointed Counsel to the Republic in 1999 and Senior Counsel to the Republic in 2004.

She was designated as national member for Malta within Eurojust and has served as an expert on judicial co-operation instruments within the EU.

Frendo Dimech was responsible for the drafting of legislation implementing Malta’s EU and other international obligations as well as the negotiation of Treaties and Agreements in this field.

In October 2014, Frendo Dimech was elected to the Bureau of the Conference of the Parties to the Council of Europe’s Convention on laundering, search, seizure and confiscation of the proceeds from crime and on the financing of terrorism.