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10 NEWS maltatoday | SUNDAY • 12 NOVEMBER 2023 This campaign is coordinated by Transport Malta and part-financed by the European Union's European Regional Development Fund, Operational Programme 1 2014-2020 www.transport.gov.mt EMERGENCY CORRIDORS Wondering why you should make way for emergency support vehicles? Someone may need the road more than you do. If you block the lane, you might be causing an ambulance to arrive too late. Don't be that person! MATTHEW AGIUS THE agency running Malta's courts is under pressure to up- grade the conditions in which evidence is stored, amidst claims Keith Schembri's mobile phone was misplaced. The Court Services Agency (CSA) is in the spotlight over what one magistrate described as the "shameful and embar- rassing" state of the courts' strong room, in which evidence is stored. Contacted by the MaltaToday on Tuesday, the agency's CEO, Eunice Grech Fiorini, declined to comment in the light of the constitutional case against the CSA and others, filed by for- mer OPM chief of staff Keith Schembri. Asked whether the court administration had done anything to address the prob- lem and whether she agreed that the current situation primarily favours the guilty, as it would result in the loss or inadmissi- bility of incriminating evidence, Fiorini replied that speaking to the media at this stage would not be appropriate. "We believe that it is more appropriate to reply to both the constitutional case and the communicated note through proper judicial means," the CEO told MaltaToday. Schembri is claiming that his right to a fair hearing has been breached and is requesting the removal from evidence in his money laundering case of a mobile phone that his lawyers claim had "disappeared" for several weeks before turning up amongst the exhibits in a sepa- rate case. In an application filed on 6 November against the Attor- Court agency under pressure over 'shameful'