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The Maltese Legal System Volume 2, Part B

Constitutional and Human Rights Law
Language: English
Year of Publication: 2021
Edition: 1st Edition
Series/Volume #: The Maltese Legal System
SKU: MUP2021001

Original price was: €50.00.Current price is: €45.00.

In The Maltese Legal System, Volume II, Part B, Professor David Joseph Attard creates a portrait, a snapshot, of the Maltese legal system. Indeed, it is an entire volume dedicated to salient human rights and fundamental freedoms’ case law. The author does not restrict himself only to local constitutional law and rights, but goes beyond that, into the European Convention on Human Rights and the judgments of the European Court of Human Rights.

Little, if anything, seems to escape the attention and scrutiny of this eminent scholar. One cannot but not notice the painstaking attention to detail. This starts with the division, between protection of human rights in Malta, and the protection of fundamental freedoms in Malta.

The author lists first the protected human rights and, afterwards, the protected fundamental freedoms. He delves through them one by one, first describing the provision and adding any necessary comments pertinent to their understanding, arranging the chosen court judgments under each article.

The author studied the case law in great depth, managed to extract the important issues, and classified the court judgments accordingly. He builds his write up on the particular case, on the particular issue which caught his attention, on what is the salient point.

This seminal volume is seamlessly put together and the principles and the references flow from one to the next. It is not simply a list of ad hoc principles extracted from court judgments, but the fruit of an in depth understanding and scholarly work.


45.00
Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 9789995794156
eISBN: 9789918617012
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Reviews

  1. Dr Ugo Mifsud Bonnici LL.D., President Emeritus of Malta

    Charting the seas of our Constitutional and Human Rights Law is a valiant endeavour on which Professor David Joseph Attard has now embarked in presenting this second volume of his work describing the Maltese Legal System. In other areas of law the development in Malta has been rather more uniform and even. Our Constitutional Law is the end result of a succession of political events and upheavals, especially before the attainment of Independence fifty years ago, but which did not stop at that point. Our accession to the European Union has produced a further realignment whilst the system was still being weaned away from total dependence on British Public Law. This rich and complex second Volume is by no means a simple exposition of the state of Maltese Constitutional and Human Rights Law as surmised by the author; it is also a compendium of the sources and in addition an updating of the disagreements and disputations between the scholars in this field.

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