{"id":84898,"date":"2026-06-24T17:59:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T15:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/government-takes-action-to-strengthen-independence-of-specialised-tribunals\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T17:59:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T15:59:00","slug":"government-takes-action-to-strengthen-independence-of-specialised-tribunals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/government-takes-action-to-strengthen-independence-of-specialised-tribunals\/","title":{"rendered":"Government takes action to strengthen independence of specialised tribunals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Government takes action to strengthen independence of specialised tribunals<\/p>\n<p>Government on Wednesday said that it is taking another important step to strengthen the independence of specialised tribunals.<\/p>\n<p>A statement said that Minister for Justice, Research and Innovation Clifton Grima met with the delegation from the Venice Commission, after government requested expert advice on the proposed reform.<\/p>\n<p>Minister Grima thanked the Venice Commission for accepting Malta&#8217;s request and for coming to Malta to discuss the reform.<\/p>\n<p>Grima emphasised that government is turning commitment into action.<\/p>\n<p>He said that Malta has reviewed the current system, prepared draft legislation and is advancing this reform, as is also promised in government&#8217;s manifesto for this legislature.<\/p>\n<p>The aim is to ensure that specialised tribunals continue to serve the public with the right expertise, while operating under rules that continue to strengthen their independence.<\/p>\n<p>The Ministry for Justice, Research and Innovation said it looks forward to continuing its cooperation with the Venice Commission.<\/p>\n<p>RSS Feed Source: Independent Malta <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.com.mt\/articles\/2026-06-24\/local-news\/Government-takes-action-to-strengthen-independence-of-specialised-tribunals-6736290813\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Government takes action to strengthen independence of specialised tribunals<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Government takes action to strengthen independence of specialised tribunals Government on Wednesday said that it is taking another important step to strengthen the independence of specialised tribunals. A statement said that Minister for Justice, Research&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2139],"tags":[1850],"class_list":["post-84898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-malta-news","tag-abatement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84898"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84898\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}