26 November 2011

This is not a weather report


As soon as Magistrate Consuelo Scerri Herrera withdrew her criminal libel and defamation case against Daphne Caruana Galizia, I blogged that there is no other course of action but impeachment. It is only through an act of parliament that a member of the judiciary can be taken off the bench.
 
My reasoning was simple. By the magistrate's own choice, the blogger's cataclysmically damning words against her now stand, loud and clear. I do not see how, in these circumstances, Magistrate Consuelo Scerri Herrera can wake up every morning, slip into her toga and judge innocence and guilt in open court.

By way of withdrawing her case, the magistrate claimed that the blogger had withdrawn the substance of her allegations under oath. This is the subject of this post.

Daphne Caruana Galizia's response to this claim was immediate and typically devastating. Not only did she write that she had not withdrawn a comma of her deluge of words but went on to call Magistrate Consuelo Scerri Herrera a liar for making such a claim.

So now the magistrate has yet another ball in her court, as it were. Apart from all the other, now uncontested, words that the blogger threw at her, there is this one.

Magistrate Consuelo Scerri Herrera is a liar.

Unless the magistrate takes the blogger to court again, I do not see how she can continue to preside over her court, ask people to swear to tell the truth and proceed to judge them.

This country cannot have a magistrate being called a liar and life goes on in the land as if we just heard tomorrow's weather report.

10 comments:

Rumpelstiltskin said...
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NO WAY ! said...

Just returned from our Saturday afternoon walk and a nice cup of coffee. Straight to my computer to check any breaking news. But, Unbelievable ! The magistrate sticks to her post. I am waiting anxiously. Go on, do it Kons.......... !! As quick as possible. I'm sure you do not need any help !

Tikka said...

That Consuelo Herrera is a liar is not news. Her latest action only confirms what we already knew. Remember how she mistook Assistant Commissioner Michael Cassar for the former policeman Patrick Spiteri? Spiteri doesn't look anything like Cassar. He is a *former* policeman because, among other things, he was accused of extortion and of pocketing a firearm that had been confiscated by the police.

Anonymous said...

Lou, the magistrate took it upon her self to stop the criminal trial because she realized that she was going to lose. She also wanted to stop more scintillating stuff from coming out. Her nefarious plan backfired.
She is probably going to lay low for a while after this public humiliation.

Wow a woman with just a pen successful managed to take on a magistrate and the entire Labour party propaganda machine and wins.
You got to respect Daphne. She has b***s. She has certainly redefined herself as an esteemed journalist.

Bunny Rabbit said...

The chairman of Gozo Channel and a high ranking MEPA official resigned voluntarily of late.
How about it Cons?

Anonymous said...

@TIKKA; Patrick Spiteri, the estate agent from Fgura?! Is HE the former police man with the past history of extortion?
Gulp! :(

Tikka said...

@Anonymous

Yes, that's Patrick Spiteri and so's this:
http://www.remax-malta.com/AgentProfile.aspx?AgentID=240061006

And here's a report of the criminal case against him, involving extortion and a firearm and ... the magistrate was Consuelo Scerri Herrera.

Anonymous said...

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:(

Tikka said...

@anonymous

Read about the criminal case involving Patrick Spiter and Magistrate Herrera here:
http://www.maltamedia.com/news/2005/am/article_10483.shtml

Anonymous said...

Halluwom lin nies!!!Hadd ma jara tieghu!!!