The Court ordered the State to pay a further €254,000 - this time to compensate for the fact that the Labour Party seized private property in Strada Rjali, Valletta, and occupied it for a full 70 years, the Nationalist Party said in a statement. "While the Constitutional Court found Labour guilty of breaching the fundamental rights of the building's
A Maltese court has ordered the State to pay €254,307 to the owners of a property in Republic Street, Valletta, after ruling that their property rights were violated by legislation that forced the property to be leased at a controlled rate for more than seven decades. The ruling, delivered on 19th February by the First Hall of the Civil Court and presided
The State has been ordered to pay €254,000 to the owners of the property housing the Labour Party’s Valletta club after a court found their property rights were breached by a forced lease. In a judgment delivered on Thursday, the First Hall of the Civil Court, presided over by Mr Justice Francesco Depasquale, ruled that rent control laws allowed the