https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/62381 Mon, 06 Apr 2026 16:15:34 GMT 2026-04-06T16:15:34Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/62703 Title: Id-Dritt : Volume 4 : January 1975 Editors: De Battista, Charles Abstract: 1/ Charles De Battista - Editorial -- 2/ Maurice Caruana Curran - The legal procurator -- 3/ John J. Cremona - Les procedures penales er leur publicite dans la presse -- 4/ Vincent A. De Gaetano - Some thoughts on natural law and contemporary society -- 5/ Roger de Giorgio - The merits and demerits of the jury system -- 6/ C. A. Fenech - Pay as you earn an administrative outlook -- 7/ J. L. Grech - Medical testimony and the medical witness -- 8/ Carmelo Mifsud Bonnici - Some general considerations on the Death and Donation Duty Act 1973 -- 9/ J. Pullicino - Insanity as a defence in criminal law -- 10/ Guido Saliba - Civil partnership and juridical personality -- 11/ Taqsir tas-sentenzi tal-Bord tat-Taxxa Ta' l-Income (1956) -- 12/ Book review -- 13/ Korrispondenza Wed, 01 Jan 1975 00:00:00 GMT https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/62703 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/62701 Title: Editorial [Id-Dritt, 4, January 1975] Abstract: This edition of the Law Journal is the result of long weeks of hard work by the present Editorial Board. It does not purport to be perfect: it purports only to be the best we could do with the limited time and funds at our disposal. Our aim has been throughout to provide our University and our legal professions with a respectable platform for the airing of views and publication of articles in the legal field. With this in mind, the Board has set about giving the journal a stabler and more permanent basis. Wed, 01 Jan 1975 00:00:00 GMT https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/62701 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/62699 Title: The legal procurator (part II) Authors: Caruana Curran, Maurice Abstract: When eventually the new Laws of Organization and Civil Procedure were promulgated (Ordinance No. IV of 1854) the qualifications set out at Sections 101 to 103 were the following: (a) Warrant from the Governor; (b) Oaths of Allegiance and Office; (c) good conduct and good morals; (d) a native born British .subject; (e) possession of a Lyceum and University certificate of a good· knowledge of arithmetic and handwriting, and of having, after being admitted to the University, attended therein the lectures prescribed for legal procurators; (f) practice for a period of not less than a year with a practising advocate; (g) examination by two judges and certification by them as being in possession of the above qualifications and comptent to act as a legal procurator. The present Code contains no substantial divergences from the above, saving that the qualification at (c) has been adequately tightened in the sense that mere attendance at University lectures is not enough, but the applicant must be approved by the examining board of the Faculty of Law. This amendment was made by Ordinance No. IX of 1886. The qualification at (d) has been amended by the condition that the period of practice must be subsequent to the passing of the examination mentioned at (c). Approval in this examination entitles the successful candidate to a University diploma. Wed, 01 Jan 1975 00:00:00 GMT https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/62699 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/62697 Title: Les procédures pénales et leur publicité dans la presse Authors: Cremona, John J. Abstract: Le probleme de la publicite extensive et souvent excessive que l'on accorde de nos jours aux procedures penales dans la presse se trouva place au premier rang clans le monde de langue anglaise en 1949 lors de la cause celebre americaine d'Alger Hiss. Le premier proces d'Alger Hiss se termina par un desaccord parmi les jures et l'affaire dut etre jugee a nouveau. On sait tres bien que pendant le premier proces aussi bien qu'apres l 'acquittement du jury un deluge de commentaires eclata clans la presse americaine. De crainte que les jures du second proces ne fussent influences par tous ces commentaires, l'avocat de l'iriculpe fit un recours en vue de renvoyer l'affaire devant le tribunal d 'un autre district. Cette requete fut appuyee par un affidavit qui fit specifiquement mention non seulement des attaques dirigees dans les journaux contre certains temoins a decharge ainsi que contre le juge et contre certains jures, mais signala en outre 'la publication pendant les debats de pretendues preuves qui ne furent pas soumises au jury et qui, dans certains cas, furent de fait repoussees par le juge'. Le ministere public riposta en affirmant, par un autre affidavit, qu' une analyse de tous les articles parus dans les journaux pendant les debats montrait que 68% etaient entierement bases sur des faits, 8% en faveur de Hiss, 6% contre Chambers (l'agent communiste a qui, disait-on, Hiss aurait remis des documents secrets) et 17% en faveur ou contre le juge. Wed, 01 Jan 1975 00:00:00 GMT https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/62697 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z