The Maltese Legal System Volume 1
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The Maltese legal system has never, so far, had the benefit of becoming the object of reflection and study in a comprehensive, encyclopaedic, let alone interdisciplinary manner. The Maltese Legal System Volume I penned by Professor David Joseph Attard is meaningful and professional, takes non-lawyers gently by the hand, opens doors and guides readers through the mazes and mysteries of the main theoretical fundamentals of the law as well as through its practical legal structures.
This monograph is a masterly exposition of Maltese Law; both the substantive part as well as that concerning organization and procedure.
This volume is a scholarly summing up, exhaustive, and well written. It is not only notable for its academic value, but has also great pedagogical virtues. It serves well the purpose of an introduction to Maltese Law for the Maltese student, as well as for the foreign lawyer who would wish to become acquainted with the Maltese way of dealing with law and legal problems. Its clarity recommends it well to the informed general even if ‘lay’ public.
It is divided into five chapters that encompass a myriad of subjects ranging from legal systems to sources of Maltese Law, the legislative process to the interplay between language and law, the various components of the legal professions to the concept of jurisdiction, the structure, functions and composition of the courts of civil jurisdiction to those of criminal jurisdiction.
Overall, it is an introductory vade mecum to the Maltese legal system worth reading.
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Dun Karm Psaila: L-Għarqa ta’ San Pawl f’Malta
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Giovanni Bonello, Judge Emeritus of the European Court of Human Rights –
The Maltese legal system has never, so far, had the benefit of becoming the object of reflection and study in a comprehensive, encyclopaedic, let alone interdisciplinary manner. This, in my view, evidenced a grim lacuna, with the evident victims of this deficiency being the inquisitive public, the legal professions themselves and students of the law. With what was hitherto available, no one could approach the many disciplines of law through an organic, over-arching introduction. In Malta, in so far as the culture of law was concerned, you were either inside the professional enclave or thoroughly out. There was no half-way house, no reception area, no graduality in one’s exposure to the challenges of the awesome architectures of the law. Plenty of detail, but no overall panoramic take.
Judge Professor David Attard has now come to the rescue, and quite daringly, I would say. I have had the advantage and the pleasure of viewing the manuscript of his work “The Maltese Legal System Volume I”, the very first book deliberately engineered to bridge the gaping chasm that separated the initiated from those out of the cold.
This work, meaningful and professional, takes non-lawyers gently by the hand, opens doors and guides readers through the mazes and mysteries of the main theoretical fundamentals of the law as well as through its practical legal structures.
So far, we have somehow done without it. After its publication we may well ask how that was at all possible.