Law Blog

As June exams draw closer for law students, tensions naturally start to rise. I fully understand; I was once in your shoes, studying law at a time when we didn’t have the wealth of resources available today. Unlike my time, now you don’t need to physically go to the library—there is a vast digital library […]

At its core, the recent decision in Michael Agius vs Planning Authority (Appell 368/23JB, RG540/23, decided 13 May 2025) is about pigeon lofts — and the place, if any, they can occupy within residential neighbourhoods. It is a case that touches on deeply contested questions: whether long-standing use can give rise to vested rights; whether […]

The General Court’s judgment in T-36/23 Stevi and The New York Times Company v European Commission  delivered today has stirred renewed attention to a growing grey area in transparency law: the legal status of digital communications that are informal, transient, and often unrecorded. At issue were text messages allegedly exchanged between the Commission President and […]

There are those who might assume that assessing whether a masonry wall can bear an additional load is a straightforward exercise: one simply compares the anticipated load in kilonewtons to the bearing capacity of the underlying ground, using values obtained from laboratory core tests or relying on commonly accepted figures for materials such as Upper […]

In its decision in Medsea Holdings Ltd, Attn: Anthony Vassallo vs L-Awtorità tal-Ippjanar (Appell 313/24JB, PA1427/23, decided 29 April 2025), the Environment and Planning Review Tribunal addressed a contested proposal to convert a former social club into a Class 4A office and extend the existing building to include a fourth recessed storey. The site, located […]