Nationalist MP welcomes SMS alerts for deferred court sittings

Nationalist backbencher Jean Pierre Farrugia has welcomed a Labour proposal to introduce a system by which the public would be alerted via an email or SMS when court sittings would have been deferred.

Reacting on Facebook to the proposal, the Nationalist MP said that such a measure should have been introduced earlier, given the technological advancements made.

"A doctor like me has long been proposing this measure - why do we have to wait for a Labour government to implement something so simple?" he wrote.

The Labour proposal was made yesterday by party leader Joseph Muscat as he announced that a future government would carry out an overhaul of the court system.