/library/oar/handle/123456789/68163 2025-12-21T19:59:10Z 2025-12-21T19:59:10Z Ciappara, Raoul Grech, Chris Wismayer, Sean /library/oar/handle/123456789/68162 2021-01-30T08:21:07Z 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: ELSA Malta Law Review : Volume 7 : 2020 Authors: Ciappara, Raoul; Grech, Chris; Wismayer, Sean Abstract: The ELSA Malta Law Review is a student-edited and peer-reviewed law journal published by the European Law Students' Association Malta. The Review is published annually and is independent from the University of Malta. The ELSA Malta Law Review is an open access journal which means that all content is freely available without charge to the user or his/her institution. The ELSA Malta Law Review is included in the Directory of Open Access Journals and also part of the Social Science Research Network's Partners in Publishing programme.

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Title: Foreword [ELSA Malta Law Review, 7, 2020] Abstract: A few months ago I was approached by ELSA Malta’s Editorial Board in regard to its publication, the Elsa Malta Law Review (EMLR), which has been going strong for a number of years and indeed seems to go from strength to strength. I accepted, with little hesitation, out of conviction in Student Activism, and also out of conviction that any and all research is to be encouraged and supported.

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Title: Editorial [ELSA Malta Law Review, 7, 2020] Abstract: In 2011, the ELSA Malta Law Review was conceived; it was the brainchild of Dr Anna Abela, who was at the time a law student at the University of Malta. A Law Journal edited by students in their final years of studies was a revolutionary concept. Months of toil, late nights and probably far too much coffee, cumulated in the first publication. Since then six more editions were published, each building on the previous years’ successes. Most notable was the introduction of peer reviewers in 2012 by Dr Clement Mifsud Bonnici, who was the Editor in Chief at that time.

2020-01-01T00:00:00Z Attard, Joanne /library/oar/handle/123456789/68159 2021-01-30T08:18:45Z 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: An analysis into the newly amended sexual offences, with specific regard to rape and defilement of minors Authors: Attard, Joanne Abstract: As portrayed through the Istanbul convention, an extensive number of women and girls fall victims to sexual violence in particular rape and defilement of minors. Aiming to increase the protection afforded to such victims of sexual offences, national out-dated provisions have been eliminated from the Criminal Code, Chapter 9 of the Laws of Malta and were replaced by new provisions which mirror today’s reality more closely. Such amendments were triggered by the setting up of the Istanbul Convention. As a result of this international instrument, a local Gender-Based Violence and Domestic Violence Act was incorporated; this eventually led to the said amendments. These amendments encompassed most notably a revision of the prosecution procedures and punishments given for each sexual offence, while an emendation to the definitions of such crimes was also accomplished. Specific importance is drawn to gender based violence upon the recognition that women are affected disproportionally by such sexual violence.

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