PN to file motion to cancel law that allows court official to erase judgements
The Nationalist Party will be filing a motion in parliament to cancel a controversial legal notice which allows for the removal of online court judgements.
The legal notice gives the director-general of the court sole discretion to alter or remove judgements from the courts’ online portal.
Passed on the pretext of granting people the right to be forgotten, the legislation has been criticised for placing barriers to transparency and restricting knowledge that is in the public interest.
The legal notice gives the director-general power to decide if there are “valid grounds” to have court judgements removed from the internet. According to the legal notice, the director-general is granted the power to either censor part of the judgment or have it removed entirely.
A group of NGOs and media organisations have written to Prime Minister Robert Abela and called on him to revoke the law.
In a press conference on Monday, PN MP Karol Aquilina said that the Opposition would be filing a motion in parliament to cancel the legal notice and erase the law.
The government would then have 60 days in which it needs to call a plenary session and discuss the PN’s motion and choose to either...