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Matthew Agius is Senior Reporter on Law and Court Affairs at MaltaToday. He is also a Legal Procurator and Commissioner for Oaths. Prior to reading Law at the University of Malta, Matthew served in the British Army.

Court & Police

6 months prison, €4,000 fine for assaulting police

21-year-old Ghanian man jailed for six months and fined €4,000 for...

Court & Police

Zabbar man charged with shoplifting is ordered to go to rehab

Drug addict ordered to undergo rehabilation after court charges him with a...

Court & Police

Man charged with defiling wife's 14-year-old relative, days after wedding

Court told that the man's wife had reported him to the police when she...

National

Russia lashes out at Malta over refusal to refuel its warships

Russian Foreign Ministry describes the ban as an attempt to 'exert...

Court & Police

€8,700 for factory worker who lost his right hand

Factory worker, partially to blame for accident that cost him his right hand,...

Court & Police

Bid by fraudster Mintoff biographer to stop book fair finds no sympathy in court

Book publishers and distributors Dom Communication Ltd filed a warrant of...

Court & Police

Asbestos victim's heirs win compensation battle against Works Department

Several former department officers testified that, at the time, no protective...

Court & Police

Jerma ‘favour’ report was in the public interest, editor testifies in Tonio Fenech libel

MaltaToday managing editor Saviour Balzan testifies in libel case against One...

Court & Police

Court orders retrial of convicted man, awards €3,000 in compensation

Court orders retrial of man convicted for drug trafficking and awards him...

Court & Police

Restauranteur accused of presenting false document in court

The owner of a restaurant has been charged with attempting to submit as...

Court & Police

[WATCH] Mintoff Bland's partner suspected infidelity, stabbed her and later himself, court told

Gheorghe Popa, 39, arraigned in court charged with stabbing Yana Mintoff Bland...

Court & Police

Reckless driver encroached oncoming traffic's lane in 2013 fatal crash, says court

Paul Borg from Ghasri was fined €4000, ordered to perform 250 hours...

Court & Police

Fisherman admits to shoplifting same shop three times in four months

A fisherman has been handed a suspended sentence after he admitted to...

Court & Police

Solar panel company director, San Lawrenz councillors, cleared of fraud charges

The court declared Di Natura director Godfrey Formosa not guilty, holding that...

Court & Police

Diver to blame for accident that cost him his foot, court holds

A court has found a diver responsible for an accident which cost...

Court & Police

French student cleared of spiteful rape allegation

The court dismissed the rape charge on the grounds of lack of evidence, adding...

Court & Police

Safi man accused of scarring wife in domestic row

A man from Safi has been released on bail this afternoon after pleading not...

Court & Police

Parents given €60,500 in compensation for baby's fatal misdiagnosis

A court has ordered Government's Chief Medical Officer and two doctors to...

Court & Police

Police correct in refusing private warden licence to ‘public menace’, court holds

A court of appeal has upheld a refusal to issue a private warden licence to a...

Court & Police

Compensation claim by hunter who was shot in the eye filed too late, court says

The court held that the victim of a hunting accident had waited too long...