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We are delighted to introduce the first edition of our 2025 newsletter, featuring a selection of timely and thought-provoking legal insights.

Malta's Commercial Court has been re-established as a superior court with extensive jurisdiction over commercial disputes, maritime matters, aviation claims, and intellectual property cases. The reform introduces significant changes to how commercial litigation will be handled, though certain aspects of the Court's scope remain subject to interpretation. Practitioners must carefully navigate the new jurisdictional framework to ensure cases are filed in the appropriate forum.

The Court of Justice of the European Union has ruled on how national courts should assess applications for European Account Preservation Orders when creditors seek to recover gambling debts from Malta-based operators.

On 4th March 2025, the Civil Court (Commercial Section), presided by Madame Justice Audrey Demicoli, in the case "Advocate Joseph Mizzi as Special Attorney of Iurii Degtiar and Mykhailo...

This article imposes upon subject persons a duty of reporting and screening for sanctions.

A positive step taken last year was the promulgation of a comprehensive set of regulations in a legal notice amending the Lotteries and Gaming Act. Such updated legislation has opened the path for the regulation of lotteries and gaming operations to reflect current trends.

Over the past few days, Malta has been facing an unprecedented challenge with persistent power cuts. These power outages have significantly disrupted daily life, affected businesses...

In Case C-34/24, Stichting Right to Consumer Justice and Stichting App Stores Claims v Apple Distribution International Ltd and Apple Inc., the Grand Chamber of the Court of Justice of the European Union clarified the territorial scope ...

On the 26 February 2026, the First Hall Civil Court (the "Court"), presided over by Madame Justice Audrey Demicoli delivered judgment in the names Pier Luigi and Olga Di Pilato (the "Plaintiffs")...

Malta's 2026 reforms replace the traditional guardianship framework with a modern system of personal autonomy safeguards and support persons. How does this legislative transformation balance the protection of vulnerable adults with respect for individual autonomy, and what mechanisms ensure that support arrangements remain proportionate to each person's circumstances?

In its judgment delivered on the 27 November 2025, in the names of Raymond Agius v. Szymon Konrad Kuchta, the First Hall Civil Court, presided over by Madame Justice Dr Joanne Vella Cuschieri, considered the elements of the ‘Actio Manutentionis'.

In Commission v Malta (filed on the 22 March 2023), the European Commission challenged Malta's Citizenship by Investment framework. The Malta citizenship by Naturalisation for Exceptional Services...

Legal procurators in possession of a warrant issued by the President of the Republic and under the Pub­lic Seal of Malta have rights of audience before the Courts of Magistrates (inferior jurisdiction) and special tribunals and boards.

Fair Trials are the only ways to safeguard and prevent any miscarriages of justice. Every person that is accused of a criminal offence should have their guilt or otherwise determined by a fair and effective legal process.

Imagine a business that is under pressure. Sales have dipped. A key contract is at risk. Cash is tight. The board meets and, after honest analysis, concludes the company faces a likelihood of insolvency — that is, a state of financial difficulty falling short of actual insolvency but sufficiently serious to warrant early intervention — unless decisive action is taken.