A court ruled that an article published in The Malta Independent on Sunday in 2002 did not contain libellous material against former Prime Minister Karmenu Mifsud Bonnici.

Dr Mifsud Bonnici had filed a libel suit against Austin Sammut over an opinion piece entitled The Dregs, published on August 4, 2002.

On evaluating the contents of the article and the context in which it was written, Magistrate Joseph Apap Bologna ruled that comments passed by Dr Sammut were reasonable and justified within a democratic society.

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