The Government has introduced legislation which enforce the closing of law courts and the suspending of legal and judicial times. This also includes promises of sales.

On the 8 October 2018, the Constitutional Court handed down its decision in Thake et vs Electoral Commission et. The main issue in this case was whether the procedure laid down in the Financing of Political Parties Act ...

Under the Maltese Civil Code, damages may be awarded for either tortious liability or contractual liability.

This procedure was deemed anti-constitutional in Federation of Estate Agents.

New Employment Agencies Regulations (LN270 of 2023) were issued today the 23rd of November 2023.

The Constitutional Court in the case (Rikors numru 22/19 GM) Joseph Grima, Georgina Grima, u Doreen Grima v L-Avukat Ġenerali u Lawrence Aquilina u Iris Aquilina has decided on two appeals...

The new provision explicitly enables and requires the consideration of multiple publications in a single court case.

CNIL, France's data regulator, has officially stated that Google may find itself facing sanctions if it fails to comply with last year's ruling of the European Court of Justice within the stipulated 15-day time frame.

Malta has taken a significant step towards a more specialised framework for commercial dispute resolution with the enactment of Act No. IV of 2026 on 17 March 2026, formally paving the way for the re-establishment...

Over the past few years Microsoft and Google have been in a tangled web of disputes over patent issues.

In Liquigas Malta Limited vs. Ufficcju ghall-Kompetizzjoni the Competition and Consumer Appeals Tribunal annulled a decision and an order to cease and desist issued by the Office for Competition against Liquigas Malta Limited.

When a company enters court-supervised liquidation in Malta, all ongoing litigation involving that entity comes to an abrupt halt. Under the Companies Act, creditors and claimants must redirect their claims through...

On the 30th July 2021, the Court of Appeal (Inferior Jurisdiction) (the "Court"), presided over by Mr. Justice Lawrence Mintoff considered the time limit for the filing of an appeal from a decision...

The Court of Criminal Appeal has recently confirmed a sentence of the Court of First Instance handed to a woman who had been conditionally discharged over copyright infringement...

In a judgment delivered on the 18th February 2016 in the case Pacific Seaways Shipbuilding Inc vs m.v. Kay, the Civil Court, First Hall, approved a private sale of a ship in favour of a mortgagee...

The Registrar of the Court has issued a press release dated 16 March 2020 announcing exceptional measures that the Court has put in place.

In the case of Charles Scerri v Anton Busuttil Dougall decided on 25 February 2021, the Court of Appeal decided on a dispute relating to the common ownership of a local business between the parties.

In a recent judgement of the Court of Appeal in the names Bank of Valletta p.l.c. (subsequently succeeded by another company in the proceedings) vs F.G.S. Construction Limited et...

A district judge in New York ruled that US authorities can access and search through electronic data stored by US companies on servers based outside the US.

Under Maltese company law, creditors holding at least one-fourth of a company's debt value have the statutory right to request a meeting to potentially replace the Official Receiver as liquidator. This mechanism provides creditors with meaningful influence over the liquidation process, particularly when specialized expertise or a different approach to asset recovery is needed.