Ligi Civili

Disputes over dividing walls often drift unnecessarily into questions of civil ownership. Planning law, however, is concerned with something far more modest and far more precise: whether the statutory requirements governing ownership declarations and consent have been respected at the moment an application is submitted. The difficulty arises where a boundary wall is proposed on […]

The recent Court of Appeal judgment in Godwin Gatt u Amanda Gatt v Awtorità tal-Ippjanar (App. Ċiv. 946/2021/1, 20 October 2025) re-affirms the rule-of-law settlement that separates administration, merits tribunals, and courts. The Court states the allocation crisply: “M’hemm l-ebda dubju li deċiżjonijiet dwar ippjanar huma fdati f’idejn l-Awtorità tal-Ippjanar bid-dritt ta’ appell quddiem it-Tribunal… […]