07.11.2025
Difficulties in Reading Planning Policies
Reading planning policy as law presents a familiar set of difficulties that can unsettle outcomes…
04.11.2025
Interpreting planning policies
Interpreting Maltese planning policy is not a contest of slogans. It begins with the words…
01.11.2025
The no liability rule in permit revocations
Article 80 of the Development Planning Act empowers the Planning Authority to revoke or modify…
29.10.2025
Civil Courts do not decide planning applications
The recent Court of Appeal judgment in Godwin Gatt u Amanda Gatt v Awtorità tal-Ippjanar…
26.10.2025
Finality and Second-Stage Appeals in Maltese Planning Law
The Xagħra judgment (Court of Appeal, Inferior Jurisdiction, 15 October 2025, App. 9/2025) clarifies an…
23.10.2025
When the Law Forgets the Street
There are few areas of Maltese civil law where the distance between logic and law…
