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Commission for justice reform to be announced tomorrow
Parliamentary secretary for justice Owen Bonnici will be announcing the members of the commission for justice reform tomorrow.
23 March 2013, 12:00am
Miriam Dalli
Miriam Dalli
1 min read
Prime Minister Joseph Muscat in Gozo.
The members of the commission responsible of the justice reform will be announced tomorrow by parliamentary secretary for justice Owen Bonnici.
The justice reform formed part of Labour's electoral manifesto, with a pledge for it to be commissioned and its recommendations implemented by the end of the year.
As part of the reform, the Labour Party pledged to introduce an IT system for the scheduling of court sittings and a direct communication system with the public via emails and SMSs. According to the pledge made by Prime Minister Joseph Muscat during the campaign, the review should include all aspects including the appointment of members of the judiciary down to the operative aspect itself.
The review will also be aimed at increasing checks and balances.
Prime Minister in Gozo
The Labour Party today organised an activity to thank the Gozitans following the 9 March election. Addressing the crowd, Prime Minister Joseph Muscat reiterated the Labour government's commitment to create jobs in Gozo for Gozitans.
Marking Freedom Day, Muscat said this national day belong to everyone and had been his pleasure to invite Opposition leader Lawrence Gonzi to join him for the morning activity in Vittoriosa.
Muscat also announced that the PL would be holding a General Conference in April.
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The reform of the Judicial System has been long coming, maybe too long. Malta and the whole EU are aware of our archaic and corrupted system and it has to be reformed and that includes doing away with some of those archaic laws that we have to live by. But for a start the commission has to start by removing first and foremost the politics, the monies, the nepotism which orrupt our courts. This sort of misbehaving has been going on for a long time and I wonder if even the newly elected commission will be able to stop any of that. It is not going to be so easy to remove some of our incompetent Magistrates and or Judges. Unfortunately there are a few of those in our courts that must be removed if this commission is going to clean out the house entirely. The previous regime was very aware of these discrepancies but did nothing to fix the problem. It is going to be next to impossible for the commission to clean up this whole mess and yes most of it will be because of politics as usual. It is easier to do the talk but a much harder chore to do the walk. Time will tell. It will be a hard and a brave decision for the parliamentary Secretary for Justice Owen Bonnici to take on. I still think that that commission ought be led by none other than Franco Debono. He is the one that that tried to point out all deficiencies with our Judicial System to the previous regime but they ignored him and the ex PM even called him "Irrelevant". Don't under estimate Franco Debono, he does a lot of talking but he also does a lot of walking.
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The reform of the Judicial System has been long coming, maybe too long. Malta and the whole EU are aware of our archaic and corrupted system and it has to be reformed and that includes doing away with some of those archaic laws that we have to live by. But for a start the commission has to start by removing first and foremost the politics, the monies, the nepotism which orrupt our courts. This sort of misbehaving has been going on for a long time and I wonder if even the newly elected commission will be able to stop any of that. It is not going to be so easy to remove some of our incompetent Magistrates and or Judges. Unfortunately there are a few of those in our courts that must be removed if this commission is going to clean out the house entirely. The previous regime was very aware of these discrepancies but did nothing to fix the problem. It is going to be next to impossible for the commission to clean up this whole mess and yes most of it will be because of politics as usual. It is easier to do the talk but a much harder chore to do the walk. Time will tell. It will be a hard and a brave decision for the parliamentary Secretary for Justice Owen Bonnici to take on. I still think that that commission ought be led by none other than Franco Debono. He is the one that that tried to point out all deficiencies with our Judicial System to the previous regime but they ignored him and the ex PM even called him "Irrelevant". Don't under estimate Franco Debono, he does a lot of talking but he also does a lot of walking.
