Employees which are operating in sectors that are critically suffering the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic or were ordered by the Superintendent of Public Health to temporarily suspend operations will be entitled to the following wage supplements: Full-time employees Self-employed 5 days’ salary based on a monthly wage of €800 Part-time employees...
Learn how recent legal orders affect notarial duties, Promise of Sale agreements (konvenji), court proceedings, and tax-related time limits in Malta. Understand the suspension periods and court closures in effect, with guidance from Dr. Sarah Mifsud.
Any person who is diagnosed as suffering from COVID-19 infectious disease shall, immediately upon receiving an oral or written order, as the case may be, from the Superintendent of Public Health, submit himself to self-isolation and shall remain in self-isolation until the Superintendent of Public Health revokes the oral or written order. This order shall...
This order shall come into force on the 23rd March, 2020. The Superintendent of Public Health hereby orders the CLOSURE of all shops whereby their principal business relates to:selling of clothing sportswearjewelleryhand bags and leather goodscostume jewellery and accessoriesfootwearnon-prescription eye-wearperfumeriesbeauty productshaberdasheriessoft furnishingssouvenir shopsdiscount storesluggage shopstoy shopshobby shopsfurniture shopsfloristsvaping shops whether operating in shopping malls and/or...
The Commissioner for Revenue has introduced a Tax Deferral Scheme intended to improve the liquidity ratios of self-employed persons and companies that have suffered a significant downturn in their turnover as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Scheme is applicable to businesses and self-employed that are obliged to pay the following taxes that fall...
The defence counsel on behalf of Angelo Zahra had requested a Constitutional Reference before the Court of Magistrates as a Court of Criminal Inquiry, claiming that the applicant’s right to a fair trial within a reasonable time is being breached. 18 years after arresting Zahra back in 2001, the Prosecution has not yet brought forward...
The First Hall Civil Court (Constitutional Jurisdiction) ordered the Attorney General to pay Oliver Grima the sum of €3,000 in moral damages, after deciding that the proceedings before the Court of Magistrates Court of Appeal took an unreasonable amount of time to be concluded. The criminal proceedings against the applicant were instituted by the Police...
On January 1, 2020, the Private Residential Leases Act [Chapter 604 of the Laws of Malta] came into force. The Act APPLIES to private residential leases that are entered into or renewed on or after the above-mentioned date. Leases that were granted after June 1, 1995 and that are still in force after January 1,...
In a judgement delivered on the 25th September 2019, the Court of Criminal Appeal helped us understand further what is tantamount to harassment. The parte civile in these proceedings carried out their business activities in close proximity to the residence of the accused. The business activities referred to a warehouse used by an import/export company...
