The Ta’ Qali vegetable market will not open tomorrow after a court temporarily upheld a request by five sellers who insisted they should not be made to work on a public holiday.

The sellers filed an application for an injunction calling on the court to stop the market from opening for business tomorrow as doing so would be in breach of the law.

In the court application the farmers pointed out that, although the Ta’ Qali market usually opened on a Monday, market regulations stipulated that markets could open any day except on Sundays and public holidays.

The sellers said a notice was put up at the market last Monday saying it would be open for business as usual the following Monday. This, they contend, is illegal.

Mr Justice Joseph Azzopardi, in the First Hall of the Civil Court, temporarily upheld the injunction filed by the sellers which prevents the market opening tomorrow.

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