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11 maltatoday | SUNDAY • 28 APRIL 2019 NEWS COURT NOTICE The Registrar, Civil Courts and Tribunals notifies that the First Hall of the Civil Court ordered the sale by Judicial Auction of the following property to be held in room numbered 78, nearby the Courts Archives, Level -1, Courts of Justice, Republic Street, Valletta. 02 nd May 2019 10.30am 16/12 - EM Ann-Marie Ciantar (ID 42541A) et vs Cutajar Anthony Dr et noe Half undivided maisonette numbered 125 on the first floor with its own airspace in Triq Annibale Preca, Lija and garage numbered 15, which forms part of a complex of garages, accessible from an unnamed street, which leads to Triq Annibale Preca, Lija. The property has a servitude and is valued at €35,000. 02 nd May 2019 11.00am 29/13 – AZ Mintoff Bland Yana sive Bland Jana Dr (ID 706451M) et noe vs Polidano Josephine (ID 0334383M Divided portion fabricable land in Safi forming part of a territory known as "Ta' Danjel" of circa 198.77 metres squared, bounding North with Triq il-Kuccard, and from East and West with property of Saveria Farrugia or her successors, as marked with red on the plan attached with the act dated 29th July, 1982 published from Notary Joseph R. Darmanin subject to an annual and perpetual ground rent of €93.17 each year, payable forward from the act date, including the benefits on the same land including the house named Mount Blanche in Triq il- Kuccard, Safi, valued at €350,000. 07 th May 2019 10.30am 31/13 – JGL Mintoff Bland Yana sive Bland Jana Dr (ID 706451M) et noe vs Ellul Alfred (ID 1086447M) Garage not officially numbered, marked number 2 in Triq San Franġisk, Fgura, which garage is the second on the right when looking at the facade, underlaying the property of family Chetcuti and their successors bordering from the West with the abovementioned street, from the south with another property of Alfred and Catherine Ellul or their successors, from the North bordering all the block with property of Arthur Micallef or his successors,subject to the conditions as described in the contract by 11.30am 22/18 – JGL APS Bank Ltd (C2192) vs Sultana Josette Avv. et noe Guliermu, Bormla (Cospicua) including its overlying airspace but excluding the airspace overlying the room marked in green on the plan annexed to the deed in the acts of Notary Dottor Pierre Falzon dated 28 of February, 2008, free and unencumbered with all its rights and appurtenances valued at €131,600. 30 th May 2019 11.30am 32/16 – JGL Bank of Valletta plc (C2833) vs Merger Enterprises Limited (C7066) Ununumbered garage named 'Elia' in Cannon Road, Qormi other times referred to as Santa Venera. The said garage is bounded on East by Cannon Road, North by property of Emanuel Galea and on the south by property of Carmelo Dingli or his successors in title and subject to annual and sub perpetual ground rent of €41.05 payable directly to the subdirectors, payable annually in advance, free and unencumbered with all its right and appurtenances, tale quale and with vacant possession valued at €253,000. Further details can be obtained from the website: https://ecourts.gov.mt/onlineservices/JudicialSales The bidders taking part in the auction must present their identity card Gaetana Aquilina For the Registrar of Civil Courts and Tribunals additional set of guarantees, systems that aided members of the judiciary arrive at their decisions already existed… [but] in order to offer peace of mind appeals would need to be heard by a human." Creating a system that can explain itself Broadly speaking, AI in- volves a machine that can interpret, learn from, and use large amounts of data to achieve specific goals. But while one might reasonably assume that achieving that goal is a priority for develop- ers, gaining the public's trust will also require 'explainabil- ity', especially in more com- plex cases. "The Al will definitely need to come up with a detailed explanation, and proper ref- erence to all laws that it has used to come up with an in- terpretation," said Angelo Dalli, an AI expert and en- trepreneur who is already in- vesting in the technology. He said there was definitely room for the country to start off with AI-powered judicial assistance, but one needed to keep in mind that laws of- ten needed to be interpreted within a particular context. "It's not as simple as apply- ing simple logic to get the right answer… This would be the ultimate impartial le- gal system, but unfortunately such a system does not exist anywhere, and possibly with good reason." The ambiguous nature of some laws, he added, allowed human judges greater flex- ibility when required. Another issue Dalli pointed out was that "today's laws of- ten end up regulating future scenarios that might never have been envisaged by the authors", adding that it was almost impossible for laws to keep up and create a precise model. "AI systems are not that good when it comes to dealing with ambiguous situ- ations." On the 'political' level, he might expect significant re- sistance at the start, but said this would be mitigated by "always having a human in the loop" and ensuring a long enough period of testing be- fore implementation. Biased data, biased judgement Asked whether he believed we might ever see criminal cases being decided by AI, Dalli pointed to problems en- countered with some systems used to predict whether indi- viduals should be granted pa- role in the US. In some instances, it was discovered that the system, feeding off racial bias in past judgments, was, with all else being equal, less likely to recommend parole for black people than it was for white Americans. "The technology needs to be developed to of- fer a complete explanation before it can be relied upon more," Dalli said. Another challenge with more complex cases, Dalli ex- plained, was the fact that law- yers tended to employ "strat- egies that are not truly logical in court". "The current legal system often relies on establishing doubt on a particular logical chain of facts, which is some- thing AI systems can't really do too well in their current form," he said. However, having said that, Dalli said AI could be eas- ily employed to "sort through massive amounts of docu- mentation quickly, sum- marise relevant facts and highlight the most pertinent information about a case. I can envisage AI being used to construct logical models of arguments and facts to find gaps in a particular argument, allowing different parties to ask more pertinent ques- tions." Dalli also highlighted the fact that AI could present evi- dence in an impartial manner without the bias that lawyers introduce quite often inten- tionally. "In a perfect world such strategies wouldn't ex- ist, and everything would be factual, as exemplified by the traditional view of the law be- ing blind and impartial. The increased introduction of AI in the legal process will ac- celerate that vision becoming a reality." Honour maltatoday | SUNDAY • 28 APRIL 2019 "AI systems are not that good when it comes to dealing with ambiguous situations"