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2 maltatoday, WEDNESDAY, 11 MAY 2016 News Notice Mr Matthew Formosa, o.b.o. JF Services (Staffing) Limited, declares his intention for the company to carry out the following activities. This is in accordance with Section 23 of the Employment and Training Services Act, 1990 (Act XXVIII of 1990). 1) Recruitment Consultancy 2) Interviewing, selection and placements of candidates in employment, 3) Recruitment of persons abroad for employment in Malta 4) Recruitment of persons in Malta for employment in Malta 5) Advertising of the filling of vacancies 6) Keeping a register of applicants for employment The Directors of JF Services (Staffing) Limited are the following Peter Formosa, 17, Gardenia, Triq il-Giebja, Swieqi Matthew Formosa, The Ivies, Flat 3D, Mosta Road, Attard JF Services (Staffing) Limited Vinci Buildings, B. Bontadini Street, Birkirkara BKR 1732 Notice Mr Matthew Formosa, o.b.o. JF Services (Cleaning) Limited, declares his intention for the company to carry out the following activities. This is in accordance with Section 23 of the Employment and Training Services Act, 1990 (Act XXVIII of 1990). 1) Recruitment Consultancy 2) Interviewing, selection and placements of candidates in employment, 3) Recruitment of persons abroad for employment in Malta 4) Recruitment of persons in Malta for employment in Malta 5) Advertising of the filling of vacancies 6) Keeping a register of applicants for employment The Directors of JF Services (Cleaning) Limited are the following Peter Formosa, 17, Gardenia, Triq il-Giebja, Swieqi Matthew Formosa, The Ivies, Flat 3D, Mosta Road, Attard JF Services (Cleaning) Limited Vinci Buildings, B. Bontadini Street, Birkirkara BKR 1732 Court upholds PN billboard injunction MATTHEW AGIUS THE First Hall of the Civil Court has upheld the PN's request for an injunction preventing the authori- ties from forcing political parties to pay commercial adver- tising rates outside election time. Ms Justice Jacque- line Padovani Gri- ma gave a ruling on the injunction yesterday morning. Under the 2016 Billboards and Ad- vertising Regulations (LN 103 of 2016), a "political advertise- ment" was taken to include material exclusively relat- ing to general elections, referenda or local council elections, which is displayed no earlier than three months before the date of that election or referendum..." Anything outside that timeframe would require permission from the Planning Authority as well as payment of a €1,500 annual licence to Transport Malta for every bill- board erected. The PN had applied for an urgent injunction against the en- forcement of the legal notice, arguing that the measure was necessary to pre- vent irremediable prejudice to the rights of the party. The Planning Authority and Transport Malta had objected to the request for the injunction, saying the prejudice that could be suffered was "not small". They argued that the party was using the billboards to advertise its commercial activi- ties. The consequence of this was a country littered with billboards everywhere, some of which were also mounted in such a way as to pose a danger to third parties, they said. They accused the party of trying to weasel its way out of paying a contribution due to the authorities. "Whoever uses a vehicle on the roads must pay his contribution for the annual use of the roads... it would be a non sequitur if a driver were to complain that the pay- ment of his road tax amounted to a breach of his right to drive." In its decision, the court held that for a warrant of prohibitory injunction to be issued, it must be shown to be necessary to protect a right and that right must also be proven, at prima facie, to exist. The prejudice that would be suf- fered by the PN were the Legal Notice to be implemented would suppress and hinder the inalien- able right of a party to transmit its political message, which far out- weighed that which could be suf- fered by the authorities. The court ruled that the opposition is justified in keeping its current billboards 20-year-old to be deported for using fake ID MAT THEW AGIUS A 20-year-old Albanian nation- al has been handed a suspended sentence after being arraigned before a magistrate, charged with using an altered ID card. Igli Halili was apprehended at Malta International Airport last Saturday, after immigra- tion officials suspected that his identity card – in the name of Francesco Portulano – had been tampered with. Prosecuting Police Inspec- tor Mario Haber yesterday al- so charged the Albanian with knowingly making use of the tampered document and falsif y- ing immigration documents. Noel Bartolo, who appeared as defence counsel to the accused, entered an admission. The law- yer suggested a suspended sen- tence towards the minimum. The accused was to be repatri- ated yesterday. Magistrate Antonio Vella handed the man a 6-month jail sentence, suspended for two years. Maltese man fighting extradition to Lithuania files Constitutional case MATTHEW AGIUS ANGELO Spiteri, a Maltese businessman who is fighting ex- tradition to Lithuania on fraud charges, has filed Constitutional proceedings requesting the court declare unconstitutional a law which could result in years of pre- trial imprisonment. Spiteri is the director of a Lithu- anian-registered travel company, Atostogu Sandèlis, and is wanted to face fraud charges in Lithuania. He is the subject of a European Arrest Warrant in Lithuania, where along with two others, he is accused of setting up "Atostogu sandèlis" (loosely translated as "Holiday Warehouse") in Vilnius – a false company which would convince its victims to sign ac- commodation agreements with certain hotels and after signing and receiving payment for this, would deliberately not provide the service which he had received payment for. Spiteri has been fighting extra- dition since his arrest in Decem- ber 2015, on the strength of a European Arrest Warrant. Upon his arraignment, Spiteri had been granted bail, but this bail was au- tomatically revoked as soon as the court of magistrates upheld the extradition request in January. Persons who have been adjudged extraditable by the court of mag- istrates, are categorically preclud- ed bail under the Extradition Act. Spiteri has been held at Corra- dino prison since January, not be- cause of a breach of his bail condi- tions, but because of a legislative quirk. Under the Extradition Act, the moment a prima facie case is found for extradition, bail is auto- matically revoked. The law oblig- es the court to order the subject's imprisonment, irrespective of any appeals against the prima facie decision. What this means, in practice, is that for the duration of that ap- peal – normally anything from three to five years – the accused must be remanded in custody with absolutely no chance of bail, in spite of being presumed inno- cent at law. Spiteri's lawyers, Ja- son Azzopardi, Kris Busietta, Eve Borg Costanzi and Patrick Valen- tino, yesterday filed Constitution- al proceedings demanding both his immediate release on bail and compensation for the deprivation of his liberty. The man's arrest is illegal, argue his lawyers, because the Extradi- tion Act contains sections which are in breach of the European Convention on Human Rights. Two police officers and 26-year-old driver hospitalised after collision TWO police officers, a sergeant and a constable, have been hos- pitalised following a head-on collision between a district po- lice car and a Hyundai Accent being driven by a 26-year-old man, who is also receiving medi- cal attention. The accident occurred yester- day at around 12:25pm in Triq Lapsi, Siggiewi. The 26-year-old was driving towards Lapsi, when he allegedly tried to overtake a bus, crashing into the oncoming police car. Members of the civil protec- tion department assisted the po- licemen out of the car.