Former Labour international secretary, Labour deputy mayor new magistrates

The Cabinet has appointed two new judges and two magistrates.

The government appointed lawyer Joe Mifsud, a former international secretary of the Labour Party between 2003-2008, as magistrate, as well as current deputy Labour mayor for Xewkija, lawyer Monica Vella.

Magistrates Giovanni Grixti and Myriam Hayman were appointed to serve as judges in the Superior Courts.

Mifsud, 47, graduated in law in 2006 after having worked as a journalist for One News and served as secretary-general of the National Youth Council in 1992, president of Forum Zghazagh Laburisti between 1994 and 1999 and then Labour international secretary.

He has practiced in court since 2007 and in 2012 was appointed a commissioner for justice in the local tribunals, and in 2013 a chairman of an appeals board for refugees, and a chairman for the board of local governance.

Vella, 41, has been practicing law since 1998, serving as judiciary assistant in the superior courts since 2009.

She was mayor of Xewkija for Labour for 11 years.