by Dr Carlos Bugeja – Partner Today is the 14th of February. Many will celebrate Saint Valentine’s Day by giving chocolate, cards, and roses. But who was the real Valentine and what does he have to do with law? The legend of St Valentine’s started…
by Dr Carlos Bugeja – Partner It is quite common in this day and age for holders of an airspace above an old apartment block to seek to build further floors and in turn renovate the building. The developer may wish to install a lift…
by Dr Carlos Bugeja – Senior Associate The Christmas of 1843 was part great and part horrible for the good old Charles John Huffam Dickens, commonly known as Charles Dickens. On one end, he published the ever so famous ‘Christmas Carol’, selling out six thousand…
by Dr Rebecca Mercieca – Junior Associate ‘Insurance fraud’, the wrongful obtaining of money or other benefits offered under an insurance policy occurs in three different ways, namely; the exaggeration of a genuine claim of a loss by submitting misleading or untruthful circumstances- Opportunistic Fraud.…
by Senior Associate – Dr Carlos Bugeja Yesterday, Parliament approved the new Private Residential Leases Act, 2019, providing for new laws regulating lease, and formally described as an Act “.. to promote the development of the private rented sector by ensuring standards of fairness, clarity…
by Dr Carlos Bugeja – Senior Associate Article 1424 of the Civil Code obliges someone selling something to warrant the thing sold against any latent (hidden) defects which render it unfit for the use for which it is intended, or which diminish its value to…
by Dr Rebecca Mercieca – Junior Associate Copyright grants protection to the author –the party who creates the work and the one who translates an idea into a fixed, tangible expression- against unauthorized usage of such author’s work. For the author to be the ‘owner…
by Dr Carlos Bugeja – Senior Associate Every year on this day (1 October), members of the judiciary, lawyers and legal procurators gather, and a celebratory sitting is held at Hall 22 at the Maltese Courts of Justice in Valletta, to mark the ‘opening’ of…
by Dr Carlos Bugeja – Senior Associate Today, the Government launched a new scheme for those people who want to request the purchase of temporary directum dominium of Government property or leased property, used as an ordinary/summer residence, that is burdened with temporary emphytheusis (ground-rent).…
by Dr Carlos Bugeja – Senior Associate The judgment delivered today, 27 August 2019, by the European Court of Human Rights (EctHR) in the names of Portanier vs Malta is huge and far-reaching, for more reasons than one can imagine. In the past few years,…