OAR@UM Collection:/library/oar/handle/123456789/690332025-12-22T16:09:31Z2025-12-22T16:09:31ZThe Law Journal : Volume 1 : Issue 6/library/oar/handle/123456789/692522021-02-15T12:56:01Z1947-01-01T00:00:00ZTitle: The Law Journal : Volume 1 : Issue 6
Abstract: The Law Journal was, at the time, the first and only local legal publication on our island. Its existence was indicative of a lacuna, one which academics would not fill. It took a group of law students, balancing their studies and other commitments, to organise such a publication.
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Abstract: IN taking over the management of this periodical we sincerely trust, indeed, we are certain, that the promise of our predecessors to keep in touch with the Law Society will be maintained. At the same time, we wish the new Doctors of Laws every success in the noble career chosen by them. It is true that every beginning is difficult but we are sure that the several Court appointments distributed among the new lawyers will help them to shake off that feeling of doubt and uncertainty which marks every beginning.
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Abstract: LIFE is a great and noble calling, demanding hard and strenuous labour with an austere regularity to the duties that are to be performed. The life of Judge Luigi Ganado shows that success in a vocation is achieved through force of will and undeterred effort. Fame and honour in his profession did not come to him by any accident of birth or fortune but rather because he possessed the precious attributes of sagacity, diligence and clearness of vision. Through zeal and constant observation he acquired a deep knowledge of amankind; he knew, loved and understood humanity : indeed, he was devoted to the welfare of one and all. His work at the Bar and on the Bench is in full accord with Cardinal Newman's precept that "we are not born for ourselves but for our kind, for our neighbours, for our country ; it is but selfishness, indolence, a perverse fastidiousness, an unmanliness and no virtue or praise to bury our talent in a napkin."
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Abstract: THE spirit underlying the Maltese Criminal system is substantially contained in the
rebuttable presumption that every man is presumed to be innocent until he is proved to be
guilty: semper praesumitur pro negante. This presumption, which, in the words of Taylor,
rests on ''the right which every man has to his character, the value of that character to himself
and to his family, and the evil consequences that would result to society if charges of guilt
were lightly entertained or readily established in courts of justice" protects the accused
throughout the whale course of criminal proceedings,- from the very moment of arrest up to
the moment of conviction or acquittal.
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