https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/62327 Mon, 06 Apr 2026 10:45:22 GMT 2026-04-06T10:45:22Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/62544 Title: Id-Dritt : Volume 5 : May 1975 Editors: De Battista, Charles Abstract: 1/ Charles Debattista - Editorial -- 2/ Paul Caruana Curran - The Maltese corsair courts -- 3/ John J. Cremona - Doctors and would-be doctors in the law reports -- 4/ Annetto Depasquale - Does 'legal relationship' constitute an impediment to marriage in Malta? -- 5/ Michael Frendo - The right to conscientious objection -- 6/ Joseph M. Ganado - Actions `in rem' and exclusive Jurisdiction clauses -- 7/ Alfred Grech - Debono vs Salvino Bugeja Noe et an exercise in judicial restraint -- 8/ Jan Alexander Micallef - The meaning of the 1971 Paris conventions on copyright -- 9/ Paul Pullicino - Notarial reminiscences of last wills -- 10/ David Scicluna - Short-term treatment of adult offenders --11/ Taqsir tas-sentenzi tal-bord tat-taxxa ta' l-income (1957)-- 12/ Tonio Spiteri - Indiċi – 13/ John Vassallo - Book review Wed, 01 Jan 1975 00:00:00 GMT https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/62544 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/62543 Title: Editorial [Id-Dritt, 5, December 1975] Abstract: At the beginning of the year, the Society swelled in its ranks as a result of an unusually populous First Year. These have shown a healthy interest in the Law Society, and their representatives both on the Society Committee and on the Editorial Board have proved their mettle to all and sundry. Later on in the year, the Society organised a forum on industrial. relations and another on the adversary system. The panels speaking at these fora could not have been better chosen; the organisation was good; and the audiences, though perhaps rather thin, were always interested and interesting: it was encouraging to see students exchange ideas in a firm and coherent manner. We will carry a proper report of these fora in our next issue. The Society was also involved in the organisation of a forum on abortion, together with the University Students Catholic Movement. Wed, 01 Jan 1975 00:00:00 GMT https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/62543 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/62542 Title: The Maltese corsair courts Authors: Caruana Curran, Paul Abstract: Privateering in Malta is known to have existed long before the Order's arrival. Its usefulness became more and more apparent as time passed. As the population of Malta multiplied from the 16th century onwards, commerce and the number of merchants, as also privateering and those who were connected with it, increased proportionately. At the same time, however, abuses, which had always existed, also increased. In 1605, the Grand Master Alof de Wignacourt found it necessary to set up an organisation to control privateering and to give the corsairs a statute to observe. Wed, 01 Jan 1975 00:00:00 GMT https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/62542 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/62541 Title: Doctors and would-be doctors in the law reports Authors: Cremona, John J. Abstract: Doctors (and, following the order in the title of this lecture, I shall come to. would-be doctors later) figure in our law reports in several guises - as plaintiffs or defendants in civil actions, as persons charged in criminal actions, as witnesses and, lastly and more commonly, as experts. For the purposes of this lecture, I am confining my interest to doctors qua doctors as otherwise there are, of course, numerous instances of doctors figuring in the law reports as ordinary litigants. Obviously there is nothing to preclude doctors from joining in this national pastime which is court litigation and, as I said, there are several reported cases of doctors, even some of the most reputable ones, suing or being sued for damages in connection with traffic accidents, whereas in relation to traffic accidents I am obviously more concerned with doctors as experts assessing, for instance, (and this is by no means easy) the percentage of an injured person's permanent incapacity for the purposes of an action for damages. Wed, 01 Jan 1975 00:00:00 GMT https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/62541 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z