Each week awla.mt writes up the leading judgment in each practice area in plain English, and links every article to the judgment itself.
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Each week's newly published judgments and tribunal decisions are sorted into seven practice areas.
For each section, the judgment most useful to a practitioner is written up: the facts, what the court held, why it matters and where it sits.
Every article links to the judgment itself. Decided cases only. People are named by their initials.
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The Court of Criminal Appeal annulled a grievous bodily harm conviction on 3 September 2026 because the Court of Magistrates cited article 216 without its paragraph. The case returns for a fresh judgment. It matters to anyone appealing a summary conviction.
The First Hall, constitutional jurisdiction, grants an interim measure stopping the removal of a Serbian father whose school-age son lives in Malta, because the immigration authorities decided without evidence on the child's best interests and a prima facie article 8 case exists.
The Court of Appeal declares null the Lands Authority's appeal against an award of compensation and damages for expropriated land in Fgura: article 74(2) of the Government Lands Act allows twenty days from the Board's decision, the term is peremptory, and the merits go unexamined.
Leading judgments of the week in plain English, delivered every Saturday morning.