"The judge was against us from day one," Lawrence Grech tells MaltaToday. One of the clerical sex abuse victims who, yesterday had a request to
have their case heard by another judge, only to have that request denied
by the same judge whom they were accusing of having a conflict of
interest, will be filing a Constitution.
This morning, judge Joseph R. Micallef ruled their request would result in an abuse of the judicial process under the guise of protecting the right to a fair hearing, pointing out that the test of impartiality, even as interpreted by the European Court of Human Rights, requires an objective basis of verifiability.
This morning, judge Joseph R. Micallef ruled their request would result in an abuse of the judicial process under the guise of protecting the right to a fair hearing, pointing out that the test of impartiality, even as interpreted by the European Court of Human Rights, requires an objective basis of verifiability.