In its judgement on the 28 June 2021, delivered in the names
of Gabriel Monterrosa (the "Plaintiff")
vs Short Lets Malta Ltd (the
"Defendant"), the Small Claims Tribunal
(the 'Court'), presided over by Dr Philip
M. Magri held, inter alia, that one cannot reasonably claim the
full replacement value for new items when all the missing/lost
items were necessarily used.
The Plaintiff filed a claim on 9 September, 2019 by which, for
all the reasons indicated therein, the plaintiff requested from the
Defendant the payment of €990 as compensation for failing to
return to him his personal belongings, after the Plaintiff had
engaged the Defendant to move his belonging from one apartment to
another, which were brokered by the Defendant as a real estate
agent.
