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Staircase, ramp
and bathing
platform in
latest Vecca
plans
Veċċa project aimed
at protecting cave and
overlying road from
collapse
PAGE 5
Court rules that law allowing
conversion of court expenses
into jail, breaches human rights
THE Constitutional Court has ruled that
a legal provision giving the Court Reg-
istrar unfettered discretion to convert
court expenses into jail term breaches
human rights.
The landmark judgment was deliv-
ered by Mr Justice Ian Spiteri Bailey
in a case instituted by a prison inmate,
who is serving a four-year jail term.
Fernando Gonzalo-Noel Sanchez
had filed proceedings in front of the
First Hall of the Civil Court in its con-
stitutional jurisdiction in 2023, chal-
lenging the legal provision that allows
unpaid court expenses to be translated
into jail time.
Sanchez had been sentenced to four
years in prison in October 2022 after
admitting to injuring several people
and resisting arrest when under the
influence of drugs.
He had also been ordered to pay
court expenses, which totalled €23,000
according to a bill drawn up by the
Court Registrar.
PAGE 5
A bathing platform, a staircase, and a ramp
have been added to plans for the shoring up of
the cliff-face at Għar Tal-Veċċa in St Paul's Bay.
The project includes a revetment composed
of boulders to protect the friable cliff-face from
further coastal erosion and prevent the col-
lapse of Triq Stella Maris.