Giovanni Bonello outlines major challenges in justice
Giovanni Bonello interviewed in tomorrow’s edition of MaltaToday.
22 June 2013, 12:00am
Raphael Vassallo
Raphael Vassallo
Judicial reform tops the government's agenda, but it is also a perilous minefield to be approached with utmost caution.
In an interview with MaltaToday on Sunday, retired judge Giovanni Bonello who was entrusted with heading the justice reform commission outlines the major challenges ahead.
Not only has the legal system been rocked in recent years by a number of corruption scandals; but popular discontent with justice as a whole has arguably hit an all-time low.
Read the full interview in tomorrow's edition of MaltaToday on Sunday
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No disrespect but it does not take a judge and a panel to tell all of us how bad, and somewhat incompetent our courts are, they have been that way for quite a while now. Hopefully retired judge Giovanni Bonello is going to bring it all out in the open, which he should. Our courts need an overhaul from top to bottom and in that order. The courts have to regain some sort of respect and in return the people will do the same towards the courts in return. No more incompetent Judges and Magistrates. No more aggressive and arrogant lawyers who think they can control the courts. No more discrimination and politics that run our courts. And most of all an overhaul of some of our archaic laws.
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Probably the retired judge means that popular discontent with justice has...hit an all-time "high" not "low". He seems to state the opposite of what he means since it is the satisfaction with justice that has hit an all-time low!
