In this article, Dr Tonio Borg discusses Maltese and European Court of Human Rights case-law on pre-trial publicity, and when this can threaten the eventual accused’s presumption of innocence in criminal proceedings. It is a transcript of the author’s keynote speech in the annual Policy Conference organised by GħSL on Friday 16 April 2021, reproduced […]

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Act XI of 2018: The Media and Defamation Act

  • Martina Cassar
  • 14/11/2018
  • 5 min read

In this article, Ms Cassar discusses how ‘journalists have been given new liberties’. She sheds light on the major changes affecting journalists’ rights, as well as the new defining factors for ‘defamation’ and ‘libel’. Martina Cassar, ‘Act XI of 2018: The Media and Defamation Act’ (Online Law Journal, 14 November 2018). In March of 2017, […]

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