A duty magistrate opens an inquiry when notified by the attorney general. Photo: Chris Sant Fournier
Prime Minister Robert Abela, a lawyer, surrounded by so many legal experts, should know what magisterial or in genere inquiries set out to do, which make his scandalous attacks on the inquiry magistrate in the hospitals deal even more unacceptable.The Criminal Code contains a section titled ‘Of inquiries relating to the in genere inquests and...