Application Number 1/2011 The Honourable Joe Mizzi vs Enemalta Corporation and Water Services Corporation 27 February 2013, Competition and Consumer Appeal Tribunal Annalies Azzopardi, ‘The Complainant’s Right of Access to the File in Competition Proceedings’ (Online Law Journal, 19 October 2015). On 27 February, 2013, the Competition and Consumer Appeals Tribunal (“Tribunal”) handed down a […]
Palestine and Israel: the conflict in the Middle East has been going on for decades, resulting in a significant loss of human life. The issue has been of concern to the international community since before the founding of the State of Israel, over sixty years ago; however, with the State of Palestine formally joining the […]
This article will shed light on the capacity to make a will under the Maltese Law of Succession. The author shall be delving into the salient principles of the law, along with an understanding of its interpretation by the courts. Natalino Caruana De Brincat, ‘Law of Succession: Capacity of the Testator to Make a Will’ […]
Giovanni Bonello, ‘Malta’s Debts to the European Court of Human Rights’ (Online Law Journal, 26 February 2015). The achievements of the European Court of Human Rights (herein also referred as the ‘ECtHR’) are usually stealthy and unassertive; rarely loud, attention-seeking or ostentatious. Individually, they often tend to pass unobserved; cumulatively they have revolutionized the fate […]
Charles Cassar and Laura Spiteri, ‘Malta Algorithmic Trading’ (Online Law Journal, 26 February 2015). DEFINITION Algorithmic trading concerns trade in financial instruments where a computer algorithm determines individual parameters of orders with little or no human intervention.1 High-frequency algorithmic trading is a sub-category of algorithmic trading concerned with a technique characterised by infrastructure intended to […]
Joanna Spiteri, ‘Jurisdiction to Tax’ (Online Law Journal, 23 February 2015). The main legislative provision under Maltese law which provides for jurisdiction to tax is article 4 sub article (1) of the Income Tax Act (‘ITA’).1 Such article deems as taxable any income of a person, accruing in or derived from Malta or elsewhere, and […]
Camilleri Preziosi Advocates, ‘Legal Update: July-October 2013’ (Online Law Journal, 9 April 2022). MALTA SIGNS DOUBLE TAXATION TREATY WITH UKRAINE Malta and Ukraine signed a double tax treaty with respect to taxes on income and on capital on the 4 September 2013. This tax treaty continues to strengthen the growing network of an already vast […]
Michelle Camilleri, ‘Identification in the Law of Evidence: Zammit Tabona vs Saliba’ (Online Law Journal, 13 January 2015). By means of a preliminary judgment given in October 2006, the First Hall of the Civil Court declared that defendant had indeed participated in the robbery and after referring to Article 1049 Civil Code,2 stated that defendant […]