In this article, Omar Rababah examines the role of minor witnesses within the Maltese law of evidence through two landmark criminal cases: Regina vs Giuseppe Attard and Giuseppe Chetcuti (1862) and Regina vs Aloysia and Emmanuel Camilleri (1961). Both cases involved wilful homicide, multiple accused, and death sentences, though only the former was carried out. […]

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Identification in the Law of Evidence: Zammit Tabona vs Saliba

  • Michelle Camilleri
  • 13/01/2015
  • 5 min read

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 […]

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